[mythtv-users] TV and Projector - need two frontends on onemachine...

David myth at dgreaves.com
Thu Apr 22 15:01:47 EDT 2004


Thanks - that should save some work ;)

David

Brian Rumple wrote:

>Run each frontend as a different user.  You can override the hostname
>for mythtv by copying /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to $HOME/.mythtv
>and setting LocalHostName to be what you want.  You can leave your
>current user's configuration the way it is and just setup the new user.
>This gives you the same result as having the frontend run on another
>machine.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:18 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: [mythtv-users] TV and Projector - need two frontends on
>onemachine...
>
>
>Hi I've had a look in the archives but can't find anything to help.
>
>Basically I'd like to effectively run two frontends on my machine - one 
>outputting via the PVR350 into the TV, the other via the VGA into an LCD
>
>projector.
>Ideally I'd like to have them available immediately (though not 
>neccesarily concurrently - but if I can get dual headed X working with 
>the PVR then why not?)
>One big problem I see is that the frontend settings seem to use the 
>hostname to identify them.
>I was considering adding an 'alternate settings' capability to the 
>frontend (ie add "-alt1", "-alt2" to the hostname before querying the db
>
>for the settings -also maybe cleaning it up - when I fully qualified my 
>machines hostname I temporarily lost all my settings :( )
>
>Before I dive in and start hacking: has anyone anyone else solved this? 
>Does anyone have any similar problems? Any ideas?
>
>David
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