[mythtv-users] OT: HTPC Cases - Touch screens et al.

[Ben Kamen]

On 6/9/2011 8:10 AM, Andrew Stadt wrote:
>
> The eye-candy factor is nice, but do we have any real functionality
> added by these?  I don't really see the use of a touch screen when I
> have a remote except for (maybe) when I'm just playing music and don't
> bother turning the main TV on.
>
> I've seen online articles about how to get these working under linux,
> but so far I haven't seen any screenshots on what they've actually
> managed to display.

BTW, if the display is a "display" (i.e. has a VGA/DVI connection) then getting it working
should be pretty easy in terms of X11.

While I haven't done these myself, I would make that front panel my primary display and then have
my TV set up as a secondary display and then have myth use the primary display for control and the TV for playback.

What you'd see on the LCD is MythTV with the playback running out the secondary port. I did have this set up with
my nVidia 5200 at one point with VGA 1 being control and VGA 2 being playback. Then I quickly changed it to have
TwinView mode with Display1=VGA on a monitor and Display2=TV (S-Video) on a projector. Myth Menus and playback show up everywhere.

That's where I'd start anyway.

Now if the display is something that requires goofy drivers (USB or FireWire) I would be very cautious.

  -Ben