[mythtv-users] Myth and multiseat

[Rene Harder]

Brad DerManouelian schrieb:
>> Yan Seiner schrieb:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>
> How do you handle audio from two separate instances?
>
>   
ALSA can handle multiple audio clients pretty well. The only thing is,
that ALSA will mix the sound together if you play music and a movie
simultaneously.
If you need independent sound output you will need a second sound card.