Client Server Setup

[pjholland]

Here's what I'm trying to do:

 

I want a machine in one room with a DVB-S card, permanently on that acts as a TV tuner/PVR for DVB-S (UK Freesat channels including BBC HD). I'd like another machine (connected over Gb LAN) that can watch live TV, schedule/playback recordings and also playback other media (MP3s, xvid AVIs etc). At some stage in the future I''d like to add a DVB-T card.

 

So I've set up DVBViewer on the back room machine (It's a relatively beefy X2 with a Cinergy 1200 DVB-S. It's tuned in the freesat channels, it's all working great (even the HD channels) - but I have some questions

 

If I turn the DVB Unicast server on (and connect it to the Cinergy) and change DVBViewer not to use the DVB-S card but to connect to a server on 127.0.0.1 then things are no where near as good. I can no longer do anything with the HD channels, and even the SD ones (which work fine directly to the card) are a bit hit and miss. Should this be working, ie should I be able to switch (on the same machine) to the DCB server and not see any difference between it and using the DVB-S card directly?

 

Are there any plans to capture the Freesat EPG (now that MythTV have the huffman coding for it)? If not is there a guide to getting XML TV to work with it? In a client server setup is it the client or server where the EPG is stored? It seems from my understanding of the design that DVBViewer's solution is very much one of "remote DVB card", so each client would need to manage its own channel list/tuning/epg is that right?

 

Can the EPG/Viewer be made look more like GB-PVR or Media Portal and less like a Windows app? At the moment the interface seems very "computer" but I may have missed an option to do with skins or something!

 

thanks.