[mythtv-users] Secondary viewing location help

[jansenj]

> 2) You can use a modulator and a RF to IR module to us the remote from the
> other room.  The remote transmits RF due to a special "battery" that is an
> RF transmitter and a half length battery to make up the difference.  The RF
> Rx is put near the myth box.  I think you can have two instances of myth on
> one box but I don't know how to control them with the remote as on my
> system, both instances respond to the remote commands.  ie. doesn't work.
> 3) You can run coax to the other room.  One for video, one for audio.  I
> have done this and can explain what I did if you ask.  Doesn't help with the
> remote. I just did it to be able to watch what is being watched in the other
> room.

I'm not too worried about the remote control aspects, I figured I
could use my wifi pda to control using mythweb to control one of the
frontend sessions.

 What it really comes down to is,  Can you run a seperate user
login(and hence a second myth frontend config for video and audio) on
a secondary video card, I'm guessing no, since I wouldn't have a clue
how to do that with xorg.conf without using xinerama.  And even if I
could get that far, I'm not sure video overlay would work on the
second screen.  I just didn't really want to blaze that trail by
myself.