Cards 'bound' to client watching should have more intelligence (1 Viewer)

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When client 1 is watching channel X on card 1, and client 2 is also tuning in to channel X, client 2 will see the card 1 stream, which is good. However when client 1 is changing channel client 2 will change channel too. Additional, when client 1 stops viewing, client 2 view breaks too. I sugguest card bounding to 'User' in tve3 should change when channel is changing or stopping when another 'User' is using that stream too.

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The test above was tested on DVB-S signals only. Analog will be tested soon, since I have to patch the analog cables still to the test box.

I tested all with 2 dvb-s cards up to 5, mixed the different brands of cards, prios, etc, etc; making sure all was reinstalled cleanly between te tests ofc.

No relevant (besides default) information was found in the logfiles for this, so none attached.

On the tvserver, i have TVsetup running mostly to monitor. Dunno how that might affect the results maybe

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- Dutch

 

[joboehl]

You know, I haven't played too much with multiple clients against a TV server, but your points seems valid.

I would expect the folowing behavior. Don't know if it's there, will test next week:

1 - Client1 watching a Channel (stream).
2 - Client2 subscribe the stream.
3 - If client1 trys to change the channel while someone else is viewing, server trys to find another free card. If it can't, can't change the channel.
4 - If client1 stops watching, client2 becomes the "stream" owner. If more clients, they queue up at the stream level.

Maybe Frodo has some other plans for it, and I don't know if there is something in the RTSP library that prevents this kind of thing from being implemented. But since this is Beta1, I think we can expect this kind of improvements to apear over time.

Julio

 

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