Hi Folks! First of all, thanks to all who make Freevo what it is; your hard work is appreciated by many!
Next, I'd like to bounce this off the list members to see if some of this exists already, or if some feature requests should be created if it sounds to be of interest to others. My setup presently consists of a Linux file server which does many things like mail, home automation, file and print serving, and it's also my primary Freevo Recordserver (I set favorites via the webserver). It records Analog SDTV using a Hauppage PVR-150. It gets it's schedule listing using Cron/freevo_tvgrab from Schedules Direct. Media is presently exported using Samba for access by other "Front-ends" and Windows Laptops. We have a dedicated HTPC/Freevo box in the Family Room which mounts the Samba shares for playback. Eventually, I'll get recording working on it, so it will be able to record our Digital TV box using a PVR-150 and the MCE IR blaster. It gets it's schedule information via the Samba share, where the server runs a cron job/xmltv grab from Schedules Direct using an alternate xmltv config to grab the Digital channels instead of the Analog ones. I'm going to build another Freevo Box for our bedroom. Now here's where I wonder if something is possible... With multiple Freevo boxes and a mix of analog & digital TV sources, it would be nice if it was possible to share Tuner devices between Freevo Frontends. Imagine this... Choose watch TV, and then choose Analog for a local tuner, or Digital to pick the Family room tuner (assuming it's available using the Upsoon plugin). This may be of interest to those who have multiple HTPC's and multiple sources (Digital/analog TV, multiple Satellite providers, or network tuners like the HDHomerun). It would also be nice if the same concept could extend to the scheduling of recordings. Let's say I'm going through the TV guide on a Freevo box that doesn't have a tuner installed (or the correct one for the source). You choose something to record, and the recording server on the appropriate box accepts the job to record it. This may be of benefit to those who either want a centralized recording server in an equipment closet, or those who have different sources available at different places and want to make them available elsewhere. Now, the Live Tuner sharing could work via VLC. I'm presently using a Hauppage MediaMVP running MVPMC (www.mvpmc.org), which will ask VLC running on a file server to transcode AVI's to MPEG2 that it could handle by talking over VLC's Telnet interface. I'm sure the same concept could work for Tuner sharing. The HDHomerun networked tuners use a similar concept; it uses a linux utility to communicate with the Tuner, which then streams to the client running VLC. Hope this provides some food for thought on how Freevo could be used. Looking forward to the discussion! Happy Holidays! /Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
