[mythtv-users] Laptop Video out?

[Kichigai Mentat]

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"The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact."
	--P. G. Wodehouse


On Mar 1, 2006, at 13.23, James Pifer wrote:

>> 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.
That hasn't been my experience, actually. When it comes to laptops,  
they don't give you a lot of choices for what you can have inside of  
it. And, unless the TV-Out is a separate adapter, it should "Just  
Work®" Like I said, with my iBook, the experience has been: plug it  
in, and it works. It was the same experience for an old teacher of  
mine, and his HP laptop, and parishioner at the church I go to. My  
personal opinion is that you're over thinking this. Just plug it in,  
and see what it does. The TV-Out on most adapters just mirror the  
output from the VGA port, and it's always on.
>
> So, I was wondering how tough it would be to use my laptop for this
> trial purpose since it has an SVideo out.
It's not hard to do: plug it in, see what it does. If it doesn't  
work, then you Google for information, and seek advice on the mailing  
list. At least see if it works out of the box.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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