[mythtv-users] Console Display and UI other than OSD?

[James L. Paul]

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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 7:03 am, Carl Alexander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> New to MythTV and I'm still in the research phase of my project, but on
> the topic a useful display for the appliance other than the OSD on my
> TV, what do people do?  It seems stupid to turn on the TV to listen to
> music, and when navigating a 40Gb + music archive using a serial port
> based LCD seems both limited and a lot of work re-engineering the UI.
> Has anyone tried small LCDs such as those used in embedded devices, like
> these?:

I had similar thoughts, but eventually came to the conclusion that the TV was 
the ideal display for controlling non-TV features. The complexity and 
redundancy to add another display or interfaced now seems stupid to me in 
comparison with simply turning the TV display on. :) If I'm listening to 
music, I can simply turn it back once I have started my playlist.

> http://www.lcdtft.com/search_result.asp?MANUFACTURER=LCD%20Modules&CATEGORY
>=LCD%20Monitors It seems like all it would take for something like this to
> give you an instant console display would be a 2nd video card and the
> ability to configure MythTV to have UI on one display and playback on
> another. (In practice you would probably want UI on both, just no or
> limited or configurable playback on the console - maybe for music eye
> candy)

My approach originally was to simply use the twinview feature of my nVidia 
card to clone the display on a small monitor. After a short time it was 
simply redundant and I found it much easier to just use the nice big TV. The 
WAF was also higher with a single display than with 2. ;)

> Thoughts?
>
> And on a unrelated issue, anyone recommend a good source for chipped
> DVD-ROMs or firmware patches? region codes are so very annoying for my
> import DVD collection...

I don't know much about that, I've never needed to do it myself. I would 
expect a good source of info to be dvdrhelp.com, but I haven't looked.

>    --- Carl
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