[mythtv-users] dual head, menus on one, video on another?
Doug's Junk
dj at sebabeach.org
Thu Oct 5 04:23:54 UTC 2006
Hi. Has anyone tried to accomplish the following? I have a dual head
mythtv 0.20 setup with an lcd monitor and a plasma tv. (nvidia 5500,
vga->lcd, dvi->plasma, twinview config). I want to run the myth
frontend on the lcd monitor but watch tv/video on the plasma. Besides
not wanting to wear out the plasma, I don't want to have to turn it on
just to listen to my music collection. :-)
So, has anyone ever tried this?
I'm currently using nvidia's twinview to obtain both screens, display :0
is the lcd and :1 is the plasma. I suspect mythtv doesn't currently
support this, it only knows how to drive one x11 display. Right? Maybe
Xinerama would be a better way to go? (assuming I can still teach mythtv
to send video to the second screen).
Ultimately it would be nice to be able to choose which display to use
(e.g. "Watch TV" could pop up a dialog or some such that asked the user
which display to use).
TIA
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