MultiCasting? w/TV3? (1 Viewer)

[HEXagontk]

I want to watch the same show on multiple PCs, synced, with the same control over it. Once it's paused it needs to be paused on every client. I don't have any TV tuner cards, just video files sitting on several shared computers. Does the new version, especially TV3, support this functionality?

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[joboehl]

Yes and no.

You can, for LiveTV, have multiple clients watching the same stream. If the stream owner stops the stream, it also stops on the other clients.

But even then, clients can have a little control over the stream they are watching. ie: A "slave" client watching a stream could also do a pause, and not be watching exactly the same point that the the stream owner.

But that's only for LiveTV. For recorded TV (your case since you only have the files), each client has his own stream.

 

[and-81]

You could control multiple clients with the one remote, or with a software remote using the IR Server Suite. But that probably wouldn't sync them 100%. There could be a few milliseconds between the first and the last client being paused.

What is the purpose? Maybe I can suggest something.

Cheers,

 

[HEXagontk]

My wife and I have a home office setup in the same room, and both of us have a separate TV sitting next to our monitors. Due to the TV's placements it's impossible to watch the same thing at the same time, and audio not being sync'd would be a nightmare.

Needless to say this is only a difficulty when we are both wanting to continue working on our computers instead of coming together around the better TV to watch.

FYI: After seeing the previous response (thx joboehl!) I tried last night to use the Network casting function of VLC with the following results: When watching locally and network streaming the network client was about 2 seconds behind, when not watching locally and network streaming to two separate clients the clients were still not in sync, less than a second disparity but enough to notice it in the video/audio.

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[Marcusb]

you cant just feed both TV's off the same AV cable? Sounds to me like the only way to have perfect sync.

Just by an AV splitter cable for a few dollars.

 

[HEXagontk]

That is a possibility, however I would also have to get a switch box since my wife's TV has only a single set of RCA inputs and no S-Video, being an older set. I guess I'm looking for a high tech solution when an old fashioned cabling job would do, thank you for the suggestion. I'm attempting to use MP for all my home A/V jukebox needs.

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