The setup was more than enough for HD playback and recording. Where it hit the wall was trying to playback HD to one monitor and downscaled HD to another. If I remember correctly, part of the problem was the lack of xv decompression support when using a TwinView setup with different resolutions on the screens.
<br><br>When I say I ditched the setup, I was only referring to that particular xorg.conf. I opted to instead use two different xorg.confs, switching between them depending on which monitor I was sitting in front of.<br>
<br>I'm no longer using that system because, sadly, the motherboard died. I'm now running a collection of older hardware.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francis Tessier
</b> <<a href="mailto:francis_tessier@hotmail.com">francis_tessier@hotmail.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;">
<div>Thanks a lot guys. As I told Tom that's the kind of "been there done that (or couldn't do that) I was looking for.<br>
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I'll just go for side-by-side (right-of instead of clone) displays, hopefully getting different screen resolutions working properly; or via setting up two screens in X like Tom pointed out.<br>
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Chris: About that P4 3.0Ghz, I'm intrigued because this is the machine I'm using for Myth (front + backend). With a Nvidia 6600GT (AGP) and a Gig of Ram. At the moment I only have SD, but planning to go for HD this fall (with proper capture card that is). Question is: is the machine going to keep up ? (Because you said you ditched the setup. Do you still have the P4 as a backend of something ?).
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Best regards,<br>
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Francis<br><br><br><br>
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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:30:13 -0400<span class="q"><br>From: <a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chrisribe@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<div><div><span class="e" id="q_113adb28630f29ae_3"><br>1) Have my CRT and the TV working at the same time<br>and<br>2) Have two different resolutions: CRT at 1280x1024 and TV at 1024x768 (I know I put 1024x768 and 800x600 in the first post, I only choose those to test things out.)
<br> <br>I know I might have to set up 2 screens in xorg.conf, but it looks like twinview can achieve this, from what I could read. But actually never saw a confirmed case.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="e" id="q_113adb28630f29ae_5">
<div><br><br>OK. I actually spent quite some tiem trying to get this same thing working a year or so ago without any luck. I had a single frontend that was connected to an 19" CRT monitor in my office and a TV in my living room. I wanted to be able to watch TV in either location at anytime, but I wanted them to simply mirror each other because I onmly had the one frontend at the time and the rooms were contiguous.
<br><br>Where it got tricky was when I ran into your problem - I wanted to be able to watch my HD content at native resolution on my monitor while having it simultaneously downscaled and mirrored on the TV. I was never able to accomplish my goal of having the HD picture mirrored on the TV - the closest I came was setting my VGA monitor to 1280x1024, while the NTSC monitor was a 1280x1024 virtual desktop on a 1024x768 device with picture centered so with HD content you would get the full vertical picture with the sides cropped.
<br><br>If I remember correctly, at least one of the reasons I ditched that setup was lack of CPU when playing back 1080i content - this was a 3.0ghz hyperthreaded P4 and an nvidia 5200 graphics card.<br><br>Anyhow, best of luck to you, and please report back if you are successful!
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