[mythtv-users] Myth and multiseat

[Mitch Gore]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> Occasionally there is discussion here on how to get myth to run in a
> multi-seat environment, with a user login on one monitor and a separate
> myth login on another terminal.  I've been working on such a solution.
> Some fine folks in Brazil have done most of the work and I've hacked up
> the code to patch in support for the evil nvidia binary drivers.
>
> The upside is that you can get several independent heads; even on a
> relatively lowly Athlon 4800+ I can watch TV on 2 heads - one at 720p
> and the other on a 1024x768 monitor, and have 2 user sessions going, all
> from 2 dual-head cards.  The downside is that you lose compiz and XvMC.
>
> The basic intro to mdm:
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Main_Page
>
> The collection of my experiences:
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/NVidia_multiseat
>
> --Yan
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That looks very cool but a TON of work....plus how did you handle lirc?
Buying a $300 PC may be the better option...or if we could find a thin
client that could work with myth :(  much like the Sage one.

Mitchell
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