[mythtv-users] IPTV in .23
Greg Mitchell
greg at nodecam.com
Sat Aug 14 23:35:41 UTC 2010
> And a followup question to my last email: do you also need as many NICs
> in your backend as IPTV streams you wish to record, or do you either
> create "virtual" network cards or just use the same network card that
> connects your backed to your network?
I guess it depends on your provider. I think you could probably get
away with one NIC if your provider has multi-tuner IPTV boxes.
> I seemed to recall reading a document where someone had configured
> MythTV to record IPTV stream and they had to give a NIC the same MAC
> address as the STBfrom the provider.
That's what I've done.
I'm on Sasktel, which has a howto on the wiki (created by Robert
Johnston, who has chimed in on this thread) which is likely what you
remember reading.
I am able to record 2 SD or one HD stream with a single NIC set up with
the MAC address from one of the HD boxes I got from Sasktel. I have a
second backend set up with a second NIC spoofing the second box - as
Robert said, unfortunately you can't tell Myth what NIC to use for
tuning/recording, so the only way to expand is to have multiple backends
That said - with two backends, I'm able to record two HD streams, or 1
HD and 2 SD, or 4 SD streams at once. Beyond that, my provider won't
give me another HD box anyway - at least the last time I checked, they
were limited to two HD boxes per household.
I have on occasion been able to coax it into recording 3 SD streams, or
1 HD and 1 SD on the same NIC, but it's far too unstable, so it seems
like there's some configuration on the provider end that's limiting me
like this.
Greg
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