[vdr] Re: Multiple output devices

[Tilo Renkl <tilo@diredare.de>]

Sebastian Rohde schrieb:

> Am Di, den 07.12.2004 schrieb Johannes Schoeller um 20:14:
>  
> > Sebastian Rohde wrote:
> >    
> > > 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
Hi Sebastian,

I wrote a mail to Klaus with exact the same feature request, but for now 
Klaus is busy going strait to 1.4.
He said, that the internal structure of VDR would be much more complex 
with that feature, but maybe
(hopefully) he will think about it for the next Mainrelease.

Tilo