Regarding my previous message (see below) I'm afraid I'm not up on the
latest ins and outs of MythTV hardware. If anybody has the time
to take a quick look at this <a href="http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/ss56g.html">http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/ss56g.html</a>
and let me know if they see any "gotchas" with running Myth on this
system. Will Myth run with that video chipset? If I can get
by with that for playing DVDs then I would. In the future if I
wanted to go to HDTV do you think the addition of an XvMC card would be
sufficient?<br>
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I'm sure everybody here is quite busy but, as I said, if anybody has
the time to take a quick look and comment I would very much appreciate
it.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Mike<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Tiller</b> <<a href="mailto:michael.tiller@gmail.com">michael.tiller@gmail.com</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;">
At work we just got a $700 computer projector that looks
fantastic. I hooked my laptop up to it while watching a
widescreen DVD and it even seems to support the widescreen format quite
nicely.<br>
<br>
So, I'm thinking about getting one of these for my basement. My
plan would be to mount it on the ceiling and project it against a
wall. I'd also like to hook a very simple MythTV frontend up to
it. My plan would be to have only a DVD reader, small hardrive
(if necessary), network and video card in it (i.e. no tuner cards and
no direct live TV feed to the projector...only live TV from a backend
over the network).<br>
<br>
Here are a few questions:<br>
<br>
1) Any comments on why this might be a bad idea? :-) It sure looks attractive to me.<br>
<br>
2) Any special issues with video cards? When I hooked my laptop
up the projector we have at work, it seemed like my laptop was putting
out a special resolution on the output port and that the projector was
matching it. The widescreen version looked great. Will all
video cards+X.conf be able to provide the optimal widescreen resolution
or is this a special feature to look for?<br>
<br>
3) The projector we have at work is a 1600 lumens Panasonic. It
also seems fairly cheap. I get the impression it can support some
pretty high resolutions (HDTV?)<br>
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4) I've got a fairly nice 5.1 receiver plus speakers. Anything
special I need to hook that up to a computer? If I play a DVD,
will it send a pro-logic encoded signal over normal "line out" or do I
need to have a sound card that can split it up locally and then send
out all the signals separately? I may just skip the 5.1 for now
use simulated surround sound.<br>
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5) I'd like this to be as cheap as possible (WAF). If I'm just
using the frontend to playback DVDs and programs recorded on a backend,
I assume I can get by with some pretty low end specs. Since I
only need to do playback, I suppose a PIII could probably fit the bill
although I suspect that might actually be hard to find. I have
this thought in my head that someday I'll have HD quality recordings on
my backend. What does it take to get HDTV playback (only) for a
frontend. The MythTV site mentions some kind of NVIDIA
acceleration? I probably can't afford to protect for this
capability but it doesn' t hurt to at least understand the tradeoff.<br>
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6) I considered a diskless configuration (probably save me money), but
it seems SO COMPLICATED to setup. Could I boot KnoppMyth and then
take the DVD out? Would that work?!? Then I could save on
the disk and just boot the thing with a DVD and leave it running all
the time. Comments?<br>
<br>
Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time or money so any suggestions along
the lines of quick and cheap would be very useful.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Mike<br>
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