[mythtv-users] xbox / htpc switch?

[Matt Picker]

Brian I think I understand what you are trying to do. 
If I am getting you right I am assuming that your xbox
is using a vga output too?  If that is so what would
be wrong with just using rca for that and leaving your
htpc with vga?  Then you could just program a remote
(if possible) to control your projector and change the
input the projector uses.  Just a thought.  Seems like
it might save some money too.  Let me know if that
solves that problem.
Matt


--- Brian Bartlow <mythtv at roostervision.com> wrote:

> I need a little bit of advice.  This is a little bit
> off topic, but it 
> relates to my mythbox connection to my projector. 
> And hopefully someone 
> here will have a solution.
> 
> I have both a mythbox htpc and an xbox in my
> theater.  I have one vga 
> cable running through my wall from my electronics
> closet to the 
> projector hung on the ceiling.  I'd like to get
> something to switch 
> between the xbox and the htpc using IR.
> 
> What seems to be the best choice is to use an IR
> keyboard and a KVM 
> switch.  Then I could program in the hotkey to
> switch between the two 
> into my programmible remote and everything would
> work.  Ideally it'd be 
> a USB KVM switch so I could plug both USB cables
> into the HTPC so I 
> could control the HTPC no matter which video signal
> was currently active.
> 
> The one problem I'm running into is that if I only
> want to play my xbox, 
> a typical 2-port kvm switch won't be powered unless
> the HTPC is on.  It 
> gets it's power through the ps2 or usb cable. 
> Looking through newegg 
> it's difficult to determine if any of those kvm
> switches will take an 
> external power supply.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this?  Anyone know
> of a decent 
> inexpensive 2-port kvm switch with external power? 
> It doesn't even have 
> to have usb functionality.
> 
> Is there another option?
> 
> Along the same lines, my projector will accept
> component inputs on it's 
> "computer 2" input.  In theory I could convert the
> VGA-out on my htpc to 
> component and then run both the component from the
> htpc and the xbox 
> through my receiver and then to the projector.
> 
> How does the quality compare between component video
> and vga?  Is there 
> any difference?
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