[mythtv-users] Laptop Video out?

[James Pifer]

> was going to do with it, and found out that it makes a pretty nice mythtv 
> frontend. It's almost silent, doesn't use very much power, and can be tucked 
> into a fairly small cabinet, out of view. Operation with wireless (via a 
> wireless-to-ethernet bridge, as it has no built-in wireless) is OK.
> 
> Remote control is via an irman receiver plugged in to the serial port and a 
> Hauppauge grey remote that's a spare around here.
> 
> We bought a 20" LCD monitor to use with it, but some LCD TV sets have VGA 
> input. With the Thinkpad, there was no special setup at all required to use 
> its external VGA port -- just plug the monitor in and the laptop boots up 
> with its own screen blank and all output appearing on the external monitor. I 
> suppose I need to do something extra to get the output to show up on both 
> screens at once, but that hasn't been that important to me.
> 
> Audio is with a set of fairly cheap computer speakers plugged directly into 
> the laptop.
> 
> The WAF is pretty good. Of course the biggest influence here would be the 
> aesthetics of the monitor and speakers, but you can probably find some that 
> aren't too "geekish."
> 

Tony, 

I think you mis-understood what I meant(or more likely I wrote a crappy
question). The part about the LCD was just saying I have the frontend
running on PC connected to an LCD monitor and I like it a lot. 

So I'd like to use mythfrontend in my main viewing area just to try it
out for a while. BUT, dealing with TVOut can be a big hassle unless you
go out and buy stuff you know works, like nvidia cards people have
working. 

So, I was wondering how tough it would be to use my laptop for this
trial purpose since it has an SVideo out. 

Thanks,
James