[mythtv-users] Knoppmyth on a Dell Laptop

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sun Oct 12 16:13:00 EDT 2003


Jeff C wrote:

> Hi Gang,
> 
> I'm sitting here with my Dell Inspiron 4000 Laptop, with its 802.11 card 
> and its ATI TV Out and I'm wondering if anyone has gotten the ATI TV Out 
> on the Dell laptops working under linux and/or with Myth.  It occured to 
> me that if I could do some kind of front end only KnoppMyth CD install, 
> I could hack the laptop in to the TV in the bedroom when ever I felt 
> like watching a recording upstairs, and otherwise keep my laptop running 
> XP for work things...  Anyone gone down this road before?

I hope you're planning on using wired ethernet for that, or have your 
recordings at a low resolution/bitrate... 802.11b doesn't have the 
bandwidth for the 'typical' Myth recording resolution.

-JAC



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