[mythtv-users] Multiple video display

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Sat Sep 3 00:17:14 UTC 2005


Ryan Green wrote:
> I was watching CNN's Situation room, and I was wondering if I could do
> the same thing on MythTV (watching 4 channels at once). Would I be
> able to do this with one box? or would I need to multiplex 4 clients
> together?

There's nothing preventing you from starting more than one
instance of mythfronted. Set your GUI size to about 1/4 of
your screen size and start up to four instances. Only one
can grab the audio out device and the others can be run with
no audio.

--  bjm


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