[mythtv-users] multiple frontends on same machine

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/21/2008 01:58 PM, Nick F wrote:
> On 2/21/08, Bert Van Kets <mythtv-users at vankets.com> wrote:
>   
>> However, sometimes I do want to perform two actions at the same time or
>> pause one and temporarily run another.
>> Some examples are:
>> - index my 100GB music collection in background while watching a recording
>> - pause a live view and switch to another program while the wife is out
>> of the room
>> - listen to music while watching pictures or cutting recordings.
>> - listen to music while surfing the web or reading feeds.
>>     
>
>
> Are you sure you need to have two frontends running (with the complications
> of two programs trying to access the video and audio cards, etc.
>
> For your examples:
> - Reindexing my 90GB music collection only takes 2 minutes tops - so it's
> not a big deal for me to wait for it (maybe the indexing is better in trunk
> than 0.20?)
>
> - Pause a live view and switch - have you tried using the PiP functionality?
>
> - Listening to music which watching pictures, surfing web, reading feeds -
> this functionality is already in trunk (miniplayer) and works great.  You
> can't listen to music while cutting recordings though.
>
> So - if you're still on 0.20 (MythDora) it might be worth upgrading to
> 0.21-fixes (now or when it released) and how many of your concerns are
> already addressed.

And I'm pretty sure with 0.21-fixes/trunk you'll have an issue with the 
frontend trying and failing to bind to ports already in use by the other 
running instance of the frontend, causing the second instance to fail to 
start properly.  I.e. it's not designed to allow multiple frontends to 
run on one system.

Mike