[mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

Brandon Beattie brandon+myth at linuxis.us
Thu Dec 1 13:35:09 EST 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> Simon Tennant p??e v ?t 01. 12. 2005 v 17:10 +0100:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> > 
> > > I know what you mean. I use it for LCD + occassional TV.
> > 
> > How do you switch between these two different ways of viewing?
> > Manually?  
> 
> As I said earlier in this thread, any X application that follows the
> $DISPLAY can be redirected to the other screen (TV in my case) with
> 
> DISPLAY=:0.1 any_application
> 
> But xine is better - it can be configured so that only its output window
> goes to screen 1, the GUI stays at screen 0.
> 
> I can post details when I get home, if anyone is interested.

Depending on your video card, and if you're using twinview, playback on
one screen will be better than the other.  Nvidia only supports overlay
on one of the heads (Which one can be configured in your X conf file).
The new 6xxx and 7xxx series cards don't do video overlay so I'm
wondering if one screen is better than another on those newer cards...

--Brandon


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