Porting the TV server to Linux (1 Viewer)
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even if it TV-OUT? sound unreasonable, I'm playing games in that screen and they works fine.
2nd screen (no matter if it's a monitor or TV) is not DX hardware accelerated. One of the biggest downfalls to DX.
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and what if it defined as primary? is it metter?
it doesn't matter what output of the card you are using, only the 1st (Primary) screen is DX hardware accelerated. This could be aVGA monitor, DVI screen or TV out. Doesn't matter how it is connected, it is the logical screen and not the physical connection that matters 
The funny thing is that this thread was started after the topic was kicked out of a previous thread for being off topic!
Just to recap this thread is to do with the possibility of getting the TV server to run on a free OS for those of us with limited pocket depth.
I think that the reality of the situation is that no-body here (me included) has the tech knowlage to make this happen, it clearly is possible (with some TV cards) but it would take a great deal of effort.
Just to recap this thread is to do with the possibility of getting the TV server to run on a free OS for those of us with limited pocket depth.
I think that the reality of the situation is that no-body here (me included) has the tech knowlage to make this happen, it clearly is possible (with some TV cards) but it would take a great deal of effort.
I think this topic is getting more and more offtopic because a consensus seems to arise that if we (at any point in the future) wish a Windows client -Linux server model, it would be better to hook with the MythTV server project and create some client plugins for interoperability than to port the MP server to Linux.
I would love to see MP on Linux, but frodo already made things clear: With DX9 and the driver situation, Windows is the way to go for him. I personally use both - mythtv and Mediaportal (WAF on MP is definately higher!). As soon as I have DVB Radio, I'll switch to Linux though, because I don't want any M$ in my house anymore.
I do have to contradict rtc on the TV card issue, though. Most of us use WinTVPVRs or DVB cards that base on TechnoTrend cards. For those the drivers are perfectly working on Linux, no issue for me, at least. So, as much as I accept the argumentation against porting to Linux because of video acceleration on Linux - if you use decent hardware, the driver situation for TV cards on Linux is okay.
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I do have to contradict rtc on the TV card issue, though. Most of us use WinTVPVRs or DVB cards that base on TechnoTrend cards. For those the drivers are perfectly working on Linux, no issue for me, at least. So, as much as I accept the argumentation against porting to Linux because of video acceleration on Linux - if you use decent hardware, the driver situation for TV cards on Linux is okay.
J
Think the off-topicpart came somewhere around where someone decided to drag performance into this.
I would still like so see a more capable mp server that is able to decode ac3 and xvid, for example, and send as mpeg2 to the client over network and then a linux client upon that. it would be real cool.
don't know if it's possible to send all that would actually be needed over rtsp though. even closer client/server without linux would be nice. then using real small micro itx systems would be possible. myself i think decoding xvid with ac3 on an itx system would be a little to much gamling for my taste.
I would still like so see a more capable mp server that is able to decode ac3 and xvid, for example, and send as mpeg2 to the client over network and then a linux client upon that. it would be real cool.
don't know if it's possible to send all that would actually be needed over rtsp though. even closer client/server without linux would be nice. then using real small micro itx systems would be possible. myself i think decoding xvid with ac3 on an itx system would be a little to much gamling for my taste.
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