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

[Jason Taylor]

A cheap front end would be way easier even a raspberrypi would work


On 9 October 2013 13:27, Duncan Kennington <duncan.kennington at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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