[vdr] Re: two VDR boxes

[Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>]

Lars von Wedel a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>  > Why would you want to record the same thing twice?
>  > And even if you do, you probably do not want to record it
>  > into the same directory.
>
> You may not _want_ to, but it might happen, e.g. due to a user not being
> aware of a timer on the other machine.
Somebody already showed the following idea on the list, that might help 
in that case : why have 2 VDR instances when you only need a single VDR 
server with two clients ?
The idea is to split the monolithic VDR into a server that would talk to 
the DVB hardware, and one or more clients that would deal with OSD and 
rendering. SVDRP clients would be simple clients without OSD/video 
capability, other ones would be allowed to be local or networked, in any 
number. That's a big architectural change, and won't appear any time 
soon, it would be based on all streaming / soft device plugins out 
there, and would solve a lot of problems (it would also be overkill for 
a simple installation, but still X11 is complete overkill for a 
standalone desktop).
Let's talk more about that next year ;-)

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NH