[mythtv-users] Confusion about Output Cards.

[Nick Ellson]

I have been doing some searching, and I feel silly for not remembering the 
MythTV client demo I saw on Revision 3's system show. Ok, so a computer or 
something closer to the TV would work, but for what? I see it as the menu 
display client, and that it can call up recorded TV shows.

But does it handle the rest? Live TV, MAME gaming, playback of stored DVD 
videos?

If so, I liked the idea of the Myth XBox, or if Myth TV client ware could 
be stuffed into the MediaMPV box. Has anyone gone this route? Any other 
small form factor clients in use?

Nick


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Nick Ellson
CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, CCAI,
MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+
Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot.


On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Warren wrote:

> Nick Ellson wrote:
>> It certainly sounds like I will have some trial and error testing infront
>> of me. The system will be ready this next Thursday, in a 4U chassis that
>> must go in the garage. Getting cable (analog) to it is easy, it comes into
>> the house near my cabinet. But it is 60 feet to the back of my Sony Wega
>> under the house, so I will have to figure out how best to get playback
>> done.
>>
>> I see expensive HDMI cables meeting my length requirements, but if the
>> internal capacitance degrades the signal...
>>
>> I already have one RCA video drop from my TV-out on my GeoVision home
>> security system, and that looks just like the VGA screen, but then it is a
>> security camera after all ;)
>>
>> I will have S-Video output available on the G-Force card I will be using.
>> I could hit my local Norvac/Greybar and find some quality cable that meets
>> the conductor/shield requirements to make a HCC from wall to wall.
>>
>> I tried testing with the 2.4Ghz Video transmitters from X10/Radio Shack..
>> Heh.. The video was pretty good for small spans of time, but you have to
>> curb your hunger for Microwaved Popcorn! ;) I don't think I saw more than
>> 3-7 contiguous pixels of real video when the wife fired up the TV dinner.
>>
>> Now, what I am curious about is this idea of a remote client for playback.
>> Can Myth TV integrate a larger capture system and have a smaller playback
>> PC do the output?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
> Yes.
>
> That is what I am in the process of doing at home right now.  I had 2
> replayTVs and a DVArchive server in the basement.  I have put a MythTV
> backend in the basement with 2 (for now) capture cards.  For the
> frontends I am going to be using systems very much like a VIA
> EPIA-M10000 for playback with no capture cards at all - the video will
> be streamed (myth) or grabbed over NFS from the old DVArchive boxes
> (mythvideo) to the front-end clients.
>
> W
>
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