<span class="q">On 7/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yaron</b> <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>> wrote:</span><div>
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Dave Sherman wrote:<br><br>> One of my design goals is to NOT require a computer in every room, except<br>> maybe a laptop to access the server and tell it where to send the output.<br>> I'm not sure if we need to install separate sound and video cards for each
<br>> room, or what.<br><br>I don't see how you could get away with it without a separate output<br>channel for each room.</blockquote></span></div><div><div><br>That's pretty much what I figured. Unless there is some sort of IP-based appliance out there, that can take A/V input and translate it to S-video or analog audio (or whatever) output. Now THAT would be cool.
<br></div></div><div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think if you install several sound devices and video devices, you should
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be just fine. Run several iterations of mythtv, and have them output to<br>/dev/dsp0 and dsp1, etc. Then run the frontend on whatever laptop for<br>whatever room you're in.</blockquote></span></div><div><div><br>I hadn't thought of that. Each instance of myth would then be dedicated to its own video/audio output hardware? I suppose then I could setup a web interface with hostnames based on the rooms. We could have
<a href="http://kitchen.house.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kitchen.house.org</a>, <a href="http://hobby.house.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
hobby.house.org</a>, <a href="http://den.house.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">den.house.org</a>, etc. Each hostname would be linked to its own instance of mythtv.
<br></div><br>It would be nice if we could have a single server instance that would have different output channels. That way you just access <a href="http://myth.house.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
myth.house.org</a>, and after selecting the type of output, you also select a channel/room to send it to.
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Dave Sherman<br>MCSA, MCSE, CCNA<br>Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware.