[vdr] Re: Two cards two TVs?

[Manfred Bieß <elim_@gmx.net>]

Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

>>> Hello,
>>> is it possible (or if not  - a good idea for a new feature) to use
>>> two dvbs-cards (or more) to watch tv in different rooms with the
>>> possibility to control all cards? This would require a possibility
>>> to control the cards with one new or more "old" osds, or not?
>> I was thinking of the same system but together with two DXR3-cards
>> (MPEG2-Decoder cards).
>>
>> @Klaus: Would it be possible to launch two vdr-instances each with it's own
>> DXR3-output-card and a plugin which manages all dvb-resources (cards) on this
>> computer (or network wide). One (client)-part of the plugin will be loaded
>> by each vdr instance and a common (server) part will manage the resources.
>>
>> With such a system one could build a central video-server for more than one
>> room while the dvb-cards will be shared by all users.
>>
>> Just dreaming...
>> Stefan.
>
> You can start several instances of VDR, each with its own devices, but one
> VDR instance can only control its _own_ devices.
>
> Connecting VDR instances will probably come in a future version...

This is great! I've been waiting for this tince I started with vdr.
Ich believe it's almost 2 years ago - easter 2001.

thanx


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