Dirk Meyer <dischi <at> freevo.org> writes:

> 
> Rob Shortt wrote:
> > Hi Mike, thanks for your thoughts.
> >
> > Michael Brown wrote:
> >> I'm going to build another Freevo Box for our bedroom.  Now here's
> >> where I wonder if something is possible...
> >
> > This is how the Freevo 2.0 backend is designed.  You can have multiple
> > frontends running, one tvserver (process that coordinates all of the
> > channels and devices, recordings, live tv), and any number of tvdev
> > processes (one per machine).  So basically the tvdev process for one box
> > manages its devices and channels (dvb, ivtv, v4l, whatever) and can
> > write to files (recording, live tv, tv timeshifting) or stream to the
> > network, ie: any frontend.
> >
> > I haven't updated my copy in quite some time though...  I think there's
> > some recent work that's been going on with the tvdev / recording backend.
> 
> Right, Freevo 2.0 has Freevo User Interfaces and Freevo TV Devices and
> they can be on different machines. There can be only one TV Server but
> all clients can talk to it.
> 
> |    schedule             record on specific device
> | ui ---------> tv server --------------------------> tv dev
> |                  ^
> | bedroom ---------|
> 
> The next step for the 2.0 architekture will be to have the laptop
> outside your LAN and you can still watch live TV.
> 
> Dischi


Rob & Dischi,

Thanks for your responses.  It's nice to know those features are coming.  Does 
this also mean that Freevo 2.0 supports multiple sources of TV program 
information?  Like 2 accounts at Schedules Direct, a Satellite provider, etc.  
Does the TV server handle that, or a combination of the TV server and the 
Frontend?

Out of curiousity, how usuable/stable/featured is Freevo 2.0 at this point?  
I'm thinking specifically of the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).  Are there 
plans to add the distributed functionality to the 1.X series?  I know Duncan's 
been making a lot of changes for the 1.8 stream.

Thanks for your time folks!  Happy Holidays!

/Mike





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