[mythtv-users] Can't get video on both projector and TV at the same time.

Devan Lippman devan.lippman at gmail.com
Thu May 5 00:56:22 UTC 2005


Could be possible that you're using hardware accelerstion to decode
your video in which case a lot of video cards (like my radeon 9600)
don't support the output to both even though they will display your
normal video on both.

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Thanks,
Devan Lippman <devan at lippman.net>


On 5/4/05, Mattias Gustafsson <m1 at dalen.gustafsson.org> wrote:
>  
> Hi, 
>   
> I've been struggling with getting mythtv to work with both a Projector and a
> TV. 
>   
> The problem i have is while i'm looking at live tv or at a recorded show.
> The problem is that I either get the video on the TV set or on the
> projector. I've never been able to output the video to both the projector
> and the TV at the same time. The MythTV GUI is though present on both
> screens (as well as normal KDE operations). 
> The reason for why i need this to be solved is that i sometimes use the TV
> to look at programs and sometimes i use the projector and it's not an option
> to reconfigure X between these times. 
>   
> I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 and the TV is connected using S-Video. 
>   
> If i use  
>   Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "on" 
> then the video is on the TV 
> If i remove this line, the video is on the projector. 
>   
> Below is my XF86Config-4 file and i'm running Debian Sarge, Myth 017,
> Xfree86 v4.3 
>   
> Is there any way to get the ATI card to put the video on both my TV and
> projector? 
> If not, would i solve my problem in ´buying an Nvidia FX5200 card instead? 
> Or is the only solution to use an external vga-tv adapter instead? 
>   
> Thanks in advance 
> Mattias Gustasfsson


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