[mythtv-users] There an effort to display MythTV status on a small LCD?

[stuart]

On 06/07/2011 09:15 AM, Terjesen Jens Peder wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> I recently came by a small (about 3") color composite LCD screen and
>>> wondered if there was an effort similar to the (text) LCD effort to
>>> display MythTV status on such a device.  Many a time have I just not
>>> bothered with using MythTV to play back music as I would need to power
>>> up the TV to get things started.  Having a small screen would make
>>> this
>>> easier.  However, starting from scratch like writing programs to
>>> handle
>>> everything from TV viewing to Music playing is a large effort (I'm
>>> thinking).
>>>
>>> -thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>
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> Could LCDproc-xosd be what you are looking for?
>
> http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/current-user.html#xosd-howto
>
> I have not tested this myself so not sure how it works.
>
> Jens

That's a step in the right direction.  Thanks Jens - didn't know such a 
tool for placing text on the screen already existed.

I am also looking for an effort where  the content of the small 
screen/display is generated base on what mythtv was doing.  For 
instance, if mythtv was playing a recording the recording's meta data 
along with the small bmp image generated by mythtv would  be great 
content.  If music was playing something similar along the lines of 
track title, album title and the album cover would be great. To add to 
the list, if we were in the music playing mode of mythtv, enough content 
feed back to ad in the selection of music would be the end all to my 
searching.

-thanks again.