On 2/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:mike@phasegate.com">mike@phasegate.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's exactly what I'd like to do. What kind of card are you<br>using? Are you happy with it?<br></blockquote></div><br>
I have a PVR350. It does the encoding, decoding, and acts as a TV/sound
card. Watching live TV, recording, and watching recordings doesn't even
register on the processor usage meters. The only thing that registers
is the flagging of commercials, and it is "niced" to a reasonable level.<br>
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The trick was getting mythfrontend to show on a different X server. I
really wanted this so that anyone could log out, or not be logged in at
all, and still have mythfrontend running uninterrupted.<br>
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I use FC4, but needed to upgrade the Xorg server to 6.9 to support
concurrent X servers. Before Xorg 6.9 only one X server could be active
at a time. After I did a bit of playing around with Xorg 6.9 and lircd,
I ended up with a separate X server that only takes input from lircd
and is completely independent of my primary head X server. It uses a
separate xorg.conf file specified on the command line, so the gui xorg
configuration tools don't mess up the PVR 350 setup. The X server and
mythfrontend are run as a rc service and start automatically.<br>
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To make it easier, I used the X server at
<a href="http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/">http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/</a> and advice from
<a href="http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html">http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html</a>
.<br>
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I really like the setup, and my wife likes it too, which is always a
major factor. One of the cool parts, is that I can have a separate
mythfrontend running as the currently logged in console user watching a
different recording on the monitor. This feature isn't used often, but
sometimes I want to watch TV while I "work".<br>
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I will follow up with more information later and maybe a howto and specfiles and rpms.<br>