On 7/30/06, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > 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. 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. 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. 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 kitchen.house.org, hobby.house.org, den.house.org, etc. Each hostname would be linked to its own instance of mythtv. It would be nice if we could have a single server instance that would have different output channels. That way you just access myth.house.org, and after selecting the type of output, you also select a channel/room to send it to. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060730/d8da07f3/attachment-0001.htm