[mythtv-users] Chat client for MythTV

Raphael Pooser rpooser at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 21:09:10 UTC 2006


Poul Petersen wrote:
> 	You can kind of do something similar already using mythtvosd.
> I do this sometimes when guests are "checking out" MythTV at my house.
> While they are watching a show, I'll do something like:
>
> mythtvosd --template=scroller --scroller_text="Severe weather warning... really big clouds on the horizon. Ohhhh, so scary."
>
>
>   
This is just great; I didn't know about it; heard(read) something vague 
about it a long time ago.  So you just run mythosd from the command line 
and that's it?  So great; can you do it any screen or does it just pop 
up while watching video?
Raphael



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