[mythtv-users] Way out idea on watching same thing in multiplerooms

Jeff Jensen jjensen at apache.org
Mon Jan 4 22:10:21 UTC 2010


On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:00:15 -0800
  Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, tortise at paradise.net.nz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> this might work. I think the elegant and proper answer 
>>>>>lies in multicast
>>>>> streams, either from the FE or perhaps preferably the 
>>>>>BE. Using multicast
>>>>> quite simply avoids any sync issues. Nick Rout made a 
>>>>>suggestion that
> 
> if I could dream.....
> 
> it would be nifty if the frontend process could be made 
>to multicast
> out what IT is watching, UI and all... Then anything 
>else on the LAN
> could watch, but under the full control of the primary 
>frontend.
> 
> Might be able to do something with X11/mirror drivers 
>but I'm sure
> VDPAU would break that.

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