[mythtv-users] Touchscreen

[Jeff Simpson]

>
> To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it
> isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.
>
> I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on
> two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that
> describes how to set that up?
>
> I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any
> device using command line options but how do I do this with the "player"
> that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?


I think the easiest way would be to have it just clone the two screens. I
don't believe
that there are any menu items that are useful while a video is playing (and
myth isn't
designed for multi-tasking like that anyway, I don't believe). I know with
my own system,
I could do something like that because the PVR-350 output can be selected
for the player
and the frontend could be running on a normal X video card by default. The
menu screen
would go black when the video starts on the TV and would come back when the
video stops.

I vaguely remember there being an option that lets you not use the internal
video player and
instead supplant it with an external command. Not sure if it was really
there or if I just imagined
it (or if it's been deprecated).

 - Jeff
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