[mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jan 11 08:34:15 UTC 2006


Schlaegel wrote:

>On 1/10/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>You want to have a keyboard and mouse connected, but not used by
>>MythTV, right? You should be able to do this by giving MythTV it's own
>>ServerLayout section in the X config file. Basically you can tell X
>>that one screen, the mouse, and the keyboard go together and the other
>>screen (or TV) is separate. Do a search on configuring X or a man
>>xorg.conf for more info.
>>    
>>
>Yes, I want to have a keyboard and mouse connected, but not used by
>MythTV. Can you elaborate on this setup, or point me to some
>documentations. I figured I only needed to setup an X server on the
>350 if I wanted to use non-myth programs.
>
and the Myth GUI and the OSD and ...

> Doesn't using an X server on
>the 350 bypass the internal decoder?
>  
>
The decoder is not (and can not be) used for anything except decoding 
and output of appropriately-sized MPEG-2 video (i.e. nothing greater 
than 720x480 and only certain smaller-sized streams).  Therefore, you 
won't get anything except video if you just use the decoder.  So, for 
Myth, people use the PVR-350 framebuffer to display graphics--including 
X, the Myth GUI, external programs, and any video that can't be decoded 
by the PVR-350 decoder (either because it's the wrong format or because 
the app used for playback doesn't support the 350's decoder--such as 
when playing back DVD's using xine).

Mike



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