On 2/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony Vito</b> <<a href="mailto:anthony.vito@gmail.com">anthony.vito@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> The trick was getting mythfrontend to show on a different X server. I<br>> really wanted this so that anyone could log out, or not be logged in at all,<br>> and still have mythfrontend running uninterrupted.<br>
<br>Note that you don't "need" a PVR350 to do this. If the OP doesn't want<br>to change how his mythtv box works by added/removing different<br>encoders, the same general idea will work with any separate video<br>
device. A pci video card would suffice. That type of setup would<br>probably be more simple then the PVR350 one.<br></blockquote></div><br>
True, you don't need a PVR350 to have a separate head dedicated to
mythfrontend. But, I would highly recommend a card that supports
hardware decoding so viewing video on mythfrontend does not affect
performance of the primary head. The PVR350 does this, and I don't know
what other cards do it also. For my situation the PVR350 was the only
viable option, as I have a silent SFF case that only supports one PCI
card and the PVR350 integrates hardware encode, hardware decode, TV
out, IR remote, and tuner into one PCI card.<br>