[mythtv-users] one frontend to multiple TVs, changing audio

[tortise]

On 21/12/2013 8:19 p.m., Mark Wedel wrote:
>
>   I'm open to any suggestions on how to do this - I looked in archives
> and elsewhere, but did not find anything that seemed like a suitable
> solution.
>
> What I have is something like this:
>
> mythfrontend -> audio receiver  -> hdmi splitter -> 3 different TV sets
>
> What I want to do is that if I am using TV set 1, have full digital
> audio output, 5.1 speaker setup, etc, as I will always be using the
> audio receiver.
>
> If I am going to the other 2 TV sets, I will not be using the audio
> receiver, so simple stereo sound is what I need (they only have 2
> speakers, and do not support the full set of audio formats that the
> receiver does)
>
>   I can get what I want by going into the audio setup each time I'm
> using a different device, but that doesn't work very well.
>
>   I tried using a separate output for digital (mythfrontend does have a
> SPDIF port to use in addition to HDMI).  However, I don't see a way in
> mythfrontend to note different speaker layout, and even with that, the
> problem is that if there is digital audio, it does not output any audio
> over hdmi (I need an option which says always send data over hdmi, even
> if digital).
>
>   I was thinking that I could have multiple frontends running on the PC,
> going out different HDMI/DVI outputs (the receiver has spare ports), but
> that seems like overkill and creates a new set of headaches of mapping
> the correct remote to the correct frontend, since I'm just using mceusb
> remotes.  It also seems that frontend properties are per machine, so
> having 2 frontends on the same machine would likely clobber each other
> settings.
>
>   I'm think that using the system event to launch external programs
> could work to update the database the says what the audio settings are
> (I already have some events set up to switch the resolution, since one
> of the TV's does not support 1080p).  But I'm not sure if it is
> documented where these settings are, and whether there is a way to get
> mythfronted to re-read these audio settings without restarting the process.
>
>   Any suggestions/solutions to this?

Does your receiver have a couple of analogue audio outputs as well?