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

Niels Dybdahl Niels at Dybdahl.dk
Thu Apr 6 19:15:15 UTC 2006


On 06 Apr 2006 14:08:53 -0400, Greg Stark <gsstark at mit.edu> wrote:
> "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.

Many people prefer to have sound when they watch TV. Can that be handled too ?

Niels Dybdahl


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