[mythtv-users] simultaneous viewing

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Apr 12 13:58:05 UTC 2012


On 4/12/2012 07:30, tortise wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 1:45 p.m., Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 4/11/2012 21:35, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>>> Does anyone use VNC to have more than one machine display content from
>>> MythTV? I have a machine in my kitchen (for recipes) with wired gigabit
>>> between. I don't care about sound from the kitchen - I can turn up 
>>> volume
>>> on the main machine, but video would be good as long as it doesn't lag
>>> badly. It's the start of hockey playoffs, and I record 3 or 4 games a
>>> night, and a guy's gotta eat!
>>
>> Are you asking if you can use VLC to stream video? If so, no.
>
> My understanding is that you can use VLC to unicast, dual cast, and 
> multicast a recording.  It takes some setting up but can be done, I've 
> done it, manually its fiddly as hell and multicast somewhat takes over 
> the LAN, presuming compatible hardware and no WiFi issues etc...

Misspelling.  The original post said VNC, and I meant VNC, not VLC.


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