[mythtv-users] xbox / htpc switch?
Matt Picker
mpicker21 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 5 19:40:54 EST 2005
Brian I think I understand what you are trying to do.
If I am getting you right I am assuming that your xbox
is using a vga output too? If that is so what would
be wrong with just using rca for that and leaving your
htpc with vga? Then you could just program a remote
(if possible) to control your projector and change the
input the projector uses. Just a thought. Seems like
it might save some money too. Let me know if that
solves that problem.
Matt
--- Brian Bartlow <mythtv at roostervision.com> wrote:
> I need a little bit of advice. This is a little bit
> off topic, but it
> relates to my mythbox connection to my projector.
> And hopefully someone
> here will have a solution.
>
> I have both a mythbox htpc and an xbox in my
> theater. I have one vga
> cable running through my wall from my electronics
> closet to the
> projector hung on the ceiling. I'd like to get
> something to switch
> between the xbox and the htpc using IR.
>
> What seems to be the best choice is to use an IR
> keyboard and a KVM
> switch. Then I could program in the hotkey to
> switch between the two
> into my programmible remote and everything would
> work. Ideally it'd be
> a USB KVM switch so I could plug both USB cables
> into the HTPC so I
> could control the HTPC no matter which video signal
> was currently active.
>
> The one problem I'm running into is that if I only
> want to play my xbox,
> a typical 2-port kvm switch won't be powered unless
> the HTPC is on. It
> gets it's power through the ps2 or usb cable.
> Looking through newegg
> it's difficult to determine if any of those kvm
> switches will take an
> external power supply.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this? Anyone know
> of a decent
> inexpensive 2-port kvm switch with external power?
> It doesn't even have
> to have usb functionality.
>
> Is there another option?
>
> Along the same lines, my projector will accept
> component inputs on it's
> "computer 2" input. In theory I could convert the
> VGA-out on my htpc to
> component and then run both the component from the
> htpc and the xbox
> through my receiver and then to the projector.
>
> How does the quality compare between component video
> and vga? Is there
> any difference?
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