[mythtv-users] Console Display and UI other than OSD?

Carl Alexander carlalex at overlords.com
Wed Feb 18 12:03:48 EST 2004


Hello,

New to MythTV and I'm still in the research phase of my project, but on
the topic a useful display for the appliance other than the OSD on my
TV, what do people do?  It seems stupid to turn on the TV to listen to
music, and when navigating a 40Gb + music archive using a serial port
based LCD seems both limited and a lot of work re-engineering the UI. 
Has anyone tried small LCDs such as those used in embedded devices, like
these?:

http://www.lcdtft.com/search_result.asp?MANUFACTURER=LCD%20Modules&CATEGORY=LCD%20Monitors 
It seems like all it would take for something like this to give you an
instant console display would be a 2nd video card and the ability to
configure MythTV to have UI on one display and playback on another. (In
practice you would probably want UI on both, just no or limited or
configurable playback on the console - maybe for music eye candy)

Thoughts?

And on a unrelated issue, anyone recommend a good source for chipped
DVD-ROMs or firmware patches? region codes are so very annoying for my
import DVD collection...

   --- Carl




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