On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:55:01 +0000, Adam Auden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:17:49 -0700, Alexander Petkov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Assuming that you want 2 or 3 different frontends to watch live tv, the > > answer is "yes." You > > need to have 2 or 3 tuner cards installed, respectively. > > > > I believe that's where your limitation lies--the dish network (satelite, > > correct?). You will need > > to have 2 sat. receivers in order to change channels independently (was it > > a 2-LBN dish?). > > If you have 1 sat. receiver, woulnd't all frontends watch the same channel? > > Would it be possible for multiple frontends to stream the same live > feed, or indeed record a program and watch it remotely at the same > time? Surely you need only as many capture cards as *different* live > feeds required? > > A. >
You'd think, but my understand is that that is not the way it works. I'd like to know how much work would be involved in "lying" to the user, which would solve this. Live TV is treated entirely seperately from recorded television. In my mind, what I'd like it to do when I select "live tv" when the tuner is already in use is to inform me what's going on, then take me directly to the recording in progress. I'm thinking of it as the satellite box my Dad used to have, where you could change the channel from any tv, but everyone got the same show. What I believe will happen now is that the second person will get the tuner already in use. What I think we're asking for is that the second person gets whatever the first person is getting. I don't know on which side the pause buffers and whatnot are currently on (whether the frontend does the buffering or the backend).
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