Hi,
I would like to run vdr with more than one remote client using the xinelib plugin. It currently works, and both clients see the same picture. Is it possible to have two clients watching different channels or different recordings?
My layout is to have a central server that has the DVB cards in it, and then TVs in different rooms to display the content from the central server.
Kind Regards
James
James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton@gmail.com wrote: | I would like to run vdr with more than one remote client using the | xinelib plugin. | It currently works, and both clients see the same picture. | Is it possible to have two clients watching different channels or | different recordings? | | My layout is to have a central server that has the DVB cards in it, | and then TVs in different rooms to display the content from the | central server.
Probably the best way to achieve this, is to use separate client vdr instances that talk to the main vdr via streamdev. You can run the client instances on the central server if you want.
James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton@gmail.com wrote: | I would like to run vdr with more than one remote client using the | xinelib plugin. | It currently works, and both clients see the same picture. | Is it possible to have two clients watching different channels or | different recordings? | | My layout is to have a central server that has the DVB cards in it, | and then TVs in different rooms to display the content from the | central server.
Well, since VDR unfortunately is designed as a stand-alone system, this has to be the most frequently asked question on this list. There is no really good way to do it, but the xineliboutput README contains useful info on one way of doing it. I have a headless server running one "Master" vdr that uses all eight DVB cards and two "Slave" vdr instances that uses streamdev and iptv to get the streams from the master. It's not ideal but works quite well. I hardly ever watch live tv so I mostly use the slave vdr's to watch recordings made by the master. /Magnus H
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Magnus H magnus@alefors.se wrote:
Well, since VDR unfortunately is designed as a stand-alone system, this has to be the most frequently asked question on this list. There is no really good way to do it, but the xineliboutput README contains useful info on one way of doing it. I have a headless server running one "Master" vdr that uses all eight DVB cards and two "Slave" vdr instances that uses streamdev and iptv to get the streams from the master. It's not ideal but works quite well. I hardly ever watch live tv so I mostly use the slave vdr's to watch recordings made by the master.
What Magnus says is true. VDR was not designed to operate as a server/client setup and at best you can slap together something that technically works but leaves a lot to be desired. I tried it once before and it was horrid. Although it's been a few years and I've heard it's "better" now. I opt'ed to stick it out with VDR in hopes that one day we'd see support for it. I know a bunch of people who defected to mythtv for this very reason but I couldn't bring myself to be one of them . ;)
Bottom line, consider running multiple standalones because that unfortunately remains the best solution.
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