[mythtv-users] Myth and multiseat

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Oct 14 17:01:42 UTC 2008


> Yan Seiner schrieb:
>> Occasionally there is discussion here on how to get myth to run in a
>> multi-seat environment, with a user login on one monitor and a  
>> separate
>> myth login on another terminal.  I've been working on such a  
>> solution.
>> Some fine folks in Brazil have done most of the work and I've  
>> hacked up
>> the code to patch in support for the evil nvidia binary drivers.
>>
>> The upside is that you can get several independent heads; even on a
>> relatively lowly Athlon 4800+ I can watch TV on 2 heads - one at 720p
>> and the other on a 1024x768 monitor, and have 2 user sessions  
>> going, all
>> from 2 dual-head cards.  The downside is that you lose compiz and  
>> XvMC.
>>
>> The basic intro to mdm:
>>
>> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> The collection of my experiences:
>>
>> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/NVidia_multiseat
>>
>> --Yan

How do you handle audio from two separate instances?



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