[mythtv-users] Can you Sync MythTV Playback on multiple frontends

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Nov 5 20:07:22 UTC 2007


On 11/5/07, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics
<steve at priorityelectronics.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I like to have people over and watch some tv every now and then
> (don't we all).
>
> What i want to know is: Can you start live tv on 2-3 frontends and then sync
> the playback on each one so that they aren't all 1-2 seconds off?
>
> This would be a great feature. I know i can manually try to pause and
> unpause them untill they are in sync, but it'd be sweet to not have to worry
> about this. Basically, i want it to work like regular tv's when you tune
> them all to the same station.

No.  I suppose it might be easier to achieve the sync using the
telnet/network command feature of the frontend to send commands to it
but there isn't any feature like that specifically that I'm aware of.

Kevin


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