[vdr] Re: Multiple output devices

[Martin Spears <martin@kober.net>]

Sebastian Rohde wrote:

> Am Di, den 07.12.2004 schrieb Johannes Schoeller um 20:14:
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> > Sebastian Rohde wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > > I researched some time on this subject but did not find an answer...
> > > I wonder whether it is possible to use multiple independent output
> > > devices with one vdr? Would it be possible to use two FF cards to
> > > independently bring a picture to two telvisions. That means, that both
> > > can make full use of OSD, Plugins, Live-TV, Timers without affecting
> > > each other?
> > >      
> > you could start two instances of vdr ....
> >    
> Well that also has a lot of disadvantages mostly concerning timer
> programming. If i see it correctly the vdr can handle multiple output
> devices. For example a FF and a streamdev-server or an mediamvp plugin.
> Would'nt it be nice if one could also control them independently? Or -
> why doesn't that work? 
> Sebastian
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I have successfully run multiple outputs from within vdr, but what I had 
to do is run multiple instences of vdr to work. For the remote to work I 
had to create a second cfg directory called /video1 and in then edit my 
remote.conf to remote-event1 for every event. yout then have to edit 
your startup script for each instance and add a -D 0 for ff 0 and -D 1 
for ff1 and so on.