[mythtv-users] Can Myth stream another source + IR?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Travis Tabbal wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com 
> > wrote:
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> For the IR portion, it looks like you need something like this:
> http://www.irblaster.info/distribution.html
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> You still have the problem of routing the video to the correct  
> display.
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> Yes, something like those IR blasters would work well. I think I can  
> figure out how to convince LIRC to deal with the IR part.
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> For the video/audio stream, I was thinking VLC.... Anyone try this?  
> I'm still trying to figure out if VLC can read from the capture card  
> or if I need something in-between to translate. Then I could just  
> add the command to the Myth menu and it would launch the VLC client  
> to handle the playback.

I think it depends on the capture card. I believe it will read from a  
stream from an mpeg2 capture card like a PVR-150. Just point it to / 
dev/videoX
However, you realize this means you need to have a capture card  
dedicated to the DVD changer and probably shouldn't even be added to  
mythtv unless you only want DVDs accessible when nothing else is  
recording on the card or if you want to cancel recordings when someone  
is watching a DVD.

Again, this is where just ripping the DVDs starts to make even more  
sense.

-Brad