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<body>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 ?).<BR>
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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<BR>From: chrisribe@gmail.com<BR>To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Twinview CRT + TV and Domain panning<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV><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.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<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! <BR><BR><BR></DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>TV/IT Engineer<BR>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<BR>(352) 377 2020 x248<BR><A href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</A> </BLOCKQUOTE><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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