On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Dave Sherman wrote: > One of my design goals is to NOT require a computer in every room, except > maybe a laptop to access the server and tell it where to send the output. > I'm not sure if we need to install separate sound and video cards for each > room, or what. I don't see how you could get away with it without a separate output channel for each room. I built a media computer for nothing but audio a while ago. It only outputs to one room (living room, through the stereo). I set it up with a web interface so you could control it from any computer in the house, and let me tell you, that was EXTREMELY ANNOYING. I installed MythTV and built an IR Receiver, and that works perfetly. Piece of cake to install and setup on debian (then again, I don't record TV on it). My only problem is that MythMusic's music selection interface kinda sucks - but since it's designed for a remote-control, it can't be as nice as a browser. I think if you install several sound devices and video devices, you should be just fine. Run several iterations of mythtv, and have them output to /dev/dsp0 and dsp1, etc. Then run the frontend on whatever laptop for whatever room you're in. -Yaron --