[mythtv-users] dual use box, MythTV & parents PC

[Matt White]

On September 5, 2003 05:26 am, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to do this too, but I want to be able to use the
> computer and watch TV at the same time. I think pretty much the only way
> of doing this would be by using 2 X servers with the patches from
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3100/1/.
>
> The difference is in my setup I only have 1 video card (GeForce4MX) and
> I'm having trouble getting X to start on the TV only, I'll probably have
> to play with the twinview settings a bit more. If you have 2 video card
> it should be easier though. Also if you don't care about not being able
> to watch TV while on the computer then you could just load 2 X servers
> on different VTs, you'd just have to switch from vt7 to vt8 when you
> want to watch TV.

I've been thinking of doing something like this, mainly just for the sake
of something else to play with :-)

What I'm thinking of doing is running a VNC server on the machine, and
then putting a button on the Myth menu to EXEC vncviewer pointed at the
local VNC server.  The only thing would be to hack up vncviewer a little
bit so that your remote could shut it down, though if you're using a mouse
and keyboard anyways for the actual desktop stuff, you can always click
the close button.

The other advantage would be that since the VNC server stays running,
you could exit the viewer and go back later, and your apps will still
be running...

Of course, you'll have to have the memory and horsepower to run other
stuff in addition to your myth apps.

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