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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 01:20:48 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Mon, January 4, 2010 4:29 pm, Tortise wrote:
>> Hmmm Well lets see if we are on the same page here?  With multicast it is
>> like a broadcast over the LAN, so using UDP any client
>> (VLC can be client and server here) can tap into the same multicast IP and
>> see the same content in real time, just like a
>> broadcast....where are the latency issues?
>
> I think the point that was trying to be made was that while the network
> data is being *sent* in sync, the players won't necessarily *play it* in
> sync if there's buffering involved (which there usually is, with network
> playback.)

precisely my point.

if its as easy as multicasting, why isn't everyone doing it?

If its as easy as multicasting, why do people have to write special
software to achieve it?

And tortise, if you don't care that the clients are truly
synchronised, why have them playing the same material at all?


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