[mythtv-users] Twinview CRT + TV and Domain panning

[Chris Ribe]

>
> 1) Have my CRT and the TV working at the same time
> and
> 2) Have two different resolutions: CRT at 1280x1024 and TV at 1024x768 (I
> know I put 1024x768 and 800x600 in the first post, I only choose those to
> test things out.)
>
> I know I might have to set up 2 screens in xorg.conf, but it looks like
> twinview can achieve this, from what I could read. But actually never saw a
> confirmed case.
>


OK.  I actually spent quite some tiem trying to get this same thing working
a year or so ago without any luck.  I had a single frontend that was
connected to an 19" CRT monitor in my office and a TV in my living room.  I
wanted to be able to watch TV in either location at anytime, but I wanted
them to simply mirror each other because I onmly had the one frontend at the
time and the rooms were contiguous.

Where it got tricky was when I ran into your problem - I wanted to be able
to watch my HD content at native resolution on my monitor while having it
simultaneously downscaled and mirrored on the TV.  I was never able to
accomplish my goal of having the HD picture mirrored on the TV - the closest
I came was setting my VGA monitor to 1280x1024, while the NTSC monitor was a
1280x1024 virtual desktop on a 1024x768 device with picture centered so with
HD content you would get the full vertical picture with the sides cropped.


If I remember correctly, at least one of the reasons I ditched that setup
was lack of CPU when playing back 1080i content  - this was a
3.0ghzhyperthreaded P4  and an nvidia 5200 graphics card.

Anyhow, best of luck to you, and please report back if you are successful!






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