[mythtv-users] Entertainment hub
Jason
fearthepenguin at jasonandjessi.com
Fri Oct 13 00:40:50 UTC 2006
I actually do have a receiver that has video switching and up converting
as well as some extra inputs on my TV. Where I run into trouble is that
I can only switch 3 video inputs and I have 5 consoles I would like to
use. I do have enough extra inputs though on my tuners.
Looks like I didn't dig deep enough for my answer. As soon as I saw the
answer on the FAQ I assumed dead end. My bad. Thanks!
Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet
Craig Partin wrote:
> On 10/12/06, Andrew Davis <andrew at nccomp.com> wrote:
>
>> I might be completely missing something here, but don't multiple inputs
>> on your TV make this a non-issue? In my case, I have a Cox Digital Cable
>> DVR on input 1, my Myth box on input 2, my DVD changer on input 3, and
>> input 4 shares whatever game console I'm using at the time or the
>> camcorder feed. All I have to do to switch between things is to change
>> the TV input with my remote... no need to run a game console through a
>> tuner input...
>>
>> Jason wrote:
>>
>>> I know that this is sort of covered in the FAQ (the answer is "doesn't
>>> that defeat the purpose of a DVR?"), but I want to ask a few more
>>> questions and gauge interest. Myth has become pretty much the
>>> entertainment hub in my house. It's amazing everything that it can do.
>>> My AV rack has been cut down to an amp, myth and my game consoles. I
>>> would love to hook my gamecube up to one of my unused inputs on one of
>>> my tuners and be able to switch to it with myth, but as my wife says,
>>> it's pretty tricky playing crazy taxi with a 5 second lag.
>>> So, to the question. What would it take to implement a mode in mythtv
>>> where the DVR functionality pretty much turns off and an input is
>>> displayed realtime to the TV? MythVideo can already play files using
>>> mplayer, and mplayer can display live TV, so I'm thinking that a quick
>>> hack to change a tuners input and crank on mplayer is all it would take.
>>> I'm a microcontroller guy, but I know some C and I'm willing to try to
>>> undertake this myself, but I wanted to pose the question in case their
>>> are serious technical issue that would prevent this from working.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> You could also get a mid level home theater receiver with video
> switching if your TV doesn't have enough inputs. Seems like that
> would be better than trying to hack passthrough inputs in the back the
> computer.
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