[mythtv-users] How can I connect my box to 5 TVs?

[Greg Stark]

"Stuart Fox" <stuart at dontuse.ms> writes:

> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:50 +0200, Dr. C Mythology wrote:
> >> I was wondering if someone knew a good way to connect 4 or 5 TVs to a PC
> >> (one plasma and 4 LCDs).

I think you can even find quad-dvi agp cards. But they might not be cost
effective compared to buying two or three cards.

> You could do it, 5 seperate X sessions each owned by a different user.

You might be able to do separate X sessions using IsolateDevice. But that
would mean having four separate PCI cards I think.

But there's no need to have separate X Sessions. You could have four separate
screens in a single X session and use su to switch to the different users. 

You don't even need separate users. You can just start myth with

  HOME=~/mythtv-0 DISPLAY=:0.0 mythfrontend &
  HOME=~/mythtv-1 DISPLAY=:0.1 mythfrontend &
  HOME=~/mythtv-2 DISPLAY=:0.2 mythfrontend &
  HOME=~/mythtv-3 DISPLAY=:0.3 mythfrontend &

Setting HOME to something different than what's in /etc/passwd is one of the
hidden bits of lore in Unix that gets forgotten a lot. 

> Remote controls then become a problem tho, myth is just myth according to
> lirc or a keyboard.

Can't help there.

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greg