[mythtvnz] TV and monitor on one PC. Sane?

[Duncan Kennington]

I also have tried this, with a slightly different reason.  I have the myth
box under the house with an HDMI cable up to the TV upstairs.  I attempted
to have a screen under the house to administer the machine while having the
other screen run the TV upstairs.  Things like pushing the power button,
etc. are markedly harder to get right if you don't have a screen you can
see.

Many hours were lost, it just wasn't workable.  As hads says, you can get
it to work, but there are so many frustrating annoyances that it's just not
worth it.  Picture the wife watching TV and you launch a terminal window.
 This opens over the TV window (which you can't see) and not on the monitor
window.  So you start another one, thinking it didn't load for some reason.
 And so on...

Don't do it, would be my advice.

Cheers
DK


On 9 October 2013 12:04, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 09/10/13 11:32, Aaron Pelly wrote:
>
>> I have a mate who's interested in a PC running ubuntu and myth. Which
>> should be reasonable. The PC will probably be in close proximity to the
>> TV, making an HDMI cable plausible. I'm wondering if myth will happily
>> run on one monitor, the TV, while his other monitor is used for general
>> computing. Further to this, for lounge chair use, can a remote be set up
>> for either just the TV monitor, or just myth?
>>
>> I hope this is clear. I'm sure I could set something up along these
>> lines for him, after some research, but I don't need to reinvent the
>> wheel if you guys already know of similar solutions. The guy is
>> reasonably tech savvy, and happy to fiddle a bit. WAF is not an issue.
>> But anything that's too high maintenance probably won't be acceptable.
>>
>
> I've done this before and it wasn't that fun.
>
> I set it up as dual screen and there were issues with focus and
> applications wanting to use the wrong screen and such.
>
> It may be better with multiple X displays but you may also run into issues
> with acceleration, I don't know I haven't tried that way.
>
> Regardless, it's a vastly more complex a set up than separate boxes. It
> will work, you just have to decide whether you are happy to deal with all
> the issues or not.
>
> hads
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