Watch 4 channels at once... or more?

[JonPug]

hi folks. hope you can help me. i did some searching, here in the forum and also on google, and came up pretty empty.

what i am wanting to do is watch 4+ channels simultaneously. not so much picture in picture, but where each channel would have its own window/viewing area. can gbpvr do it? if not, does anyone know of a program that can. it doesnt need to be free.

any help would be awesome, thanks

[sub]

You might be able to with GB-PVR, when using the VMR9 renderer, but you'd need to run four instances of GB-PVR and have four tuners. Changing channels would be a bit of a hassle, since only the instance with focus will change channels.

Its not something I've ever tried.

[martint123]

Any idea how to get more than one instance of GB-PVR running? When I try to start a second it only sends focus to the existing one.

[McBainUK]

If you create this registry key, then it'll allow multiple instances
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Devnz\AllowMultipleInst ances=1 (DWORD)

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=14235

[martint123]

Cheers.

Is it me, the forum software or the poster who keeps putting spaces in things like registry entries?. Confuses old gits like me

[HtV]

It's the forum software, it has been doing things like that before.

[martint123]

Well it works. On a client as well. Three tuners on live TV.

One slight problem, if the client crashes then the three tuners are still showing as being used and I had to restart recording service on the server to free them up.

This will increase bragging rights with the guy up the road!

[sub]

One slight problem, if the client crashes then the three tuners are still showing as being used and I had to restart recording service on the server to free them up.

It'd time the client out in about thirty seconds or so, freeing the tuner up.

[martint123]

It'd time the client out in about thirty seconds or so, freeing the tuner up.

Thanks for that, I started panicking too soon then :o I kept the question away from support as I don't expect support when I am "doing stupid things" .

[martint123]

It'd time the client out in about thirty seconds or so, freeing the tuner up.

Hmmm 10 minutes and a reboot of the client still has two tuners being used and the mpg files in the buffer directory increasing in size.

Things are a bit chaotic here with visitors, but in the morning, I'll do a clean start with empty logs and attach them.

Martin