[mythtv-users] Any FE to Many PCs - LAN Content Simulcasts with VLC Multicasting

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Wagner" <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Any FE to Many PCs - LAN Content Simulcasts with VLC Multicasting


Tortise wrote:
> <snip>


> You've got several options.
{snip}
>3. Write some code (MythTV code).  {snip}
> Alternatively, add an option on the first frontend to 'migrate to...',
> which logs into the telnet socket of the second frontend, and tells it
> to start playing whatever content you are currently using.

Possibly a better (and best?) option might be to have the server (optionally) serve the AV stream as a multicast stream, which any 
client could then pull, say using udp://239.0.0.0:xxxx ?