Cool. Thanks for the answers. Here are a few questions from this thread:<br>
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1) Do I need anything for XvMC (which I gather is hardware decoding of MPEG?) besides the right video card (NVIDIA?).<br>
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2) I was thinking of ceiling mounting the projector. It
seems like it would be good to have the computer in a corner
somewhere. Are there any issues with running such long VGA
cables? I would imagine such a cable is pretty damn
expensive? The alternative would be mounting the computer from
the ceiling as well somehow so it was closer to the projector (and out
of the way).<br>
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Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Isaac Richards</b> <<a href="mailto:ijr@case.edu">ijr@case.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 04 November 2005 08:18 pm, Michael Tiller wrote:<br>> At work we just got a $700 computer projector that looks fantastic. I<br>> hooked my laptop up to it while watching a widescreen DVD and it even seems<br>
> to support the widescreen format quite nicely.<br>><br>> So, I'm thinking about getting one of these for my basement. My plan would<br>> be to mount it on the ceiling and project it against a wall. I'd also like
<br>> to hook a very simple MythTV frontend up to it. My plan would be to have<br>> only a DVD reader, small hardrive (if necessary), network and video card in<br>> it (i.e. no tuner cards and no direct live TV feed to the projector...only
<br>> live TV from a backend over the network).<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/basement/6-Projector/1-screen_mounted.jpg">http://www.mythtv.org/basement/6-Projector/1-screen_mounted.jpg</a><br><br>That's my production mythtv setup. Panasonic PT-AE700U projector, homemade
<br>screen.<br><br>> Here are a few questions:<br>><br>> 1) Any comments on why this might be a bad idea? :-) It sure looks<br>> attractive to me.<br><br>The biggest negative is that it's really not the best use of bulb life to be
<br>doing stuff like listening to music for hours.<br><br>> 2) Any special issues with video cards? When I hooked my laptop up the<br>> projector we have at work, it seemed like my laptop was putting out a<br>> special resolution on the output port and that the projector was matching
<br>> it. The widescreen version looked great. Will all video cards+X.conf be<br>> able to provide the optimal widescreen resolution or is this a special<br>> feature to look for?<br><br>Most digital projectors these days have vga and hdmi/dvi input, and fairly
<br>standard resolutions. I've had no problems displaying 1280x720 on mine.<br><br>> 4) I've got a fairly nice 5.1 receiver plus speakers. Anything special I<br>> need to hook that up to a computer? If I play a DVD, will it send a
<br>> pro-logic encoded signal over normal "line out" or do I need to have a<br>> sound card that can split it up locally and then send out all the signals<br>> separately? I may just skip the 5.1 for now use simulated surround sound.
<br><br>I don't do DVD playback on mine (still prefer to use a standalone dvd<br>changer), but you can pass through the audio with a digital out..<br><br>Isaac<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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