Brian I think I understand what you are trying to do. If I am getting you right I am assuming that your xbox is using a vga output too? If that is so what would be wrong with just using rca for that and leaving your htpc with vga? Then you could just program a remote (if possible) to control your projector and change the input the projector uses. Just a thought. Seems like it might save some money too. Let me know if that solves that problem. Matt
--- Brian Bartlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a little bit of advice. This is a little bit > off topic, but it > relates to my mythbox connection to my projector. > And hopefully someone > here will have a solution. > > I have both a mythbox htpc and an xbox in my > theater. I have one vga > cable running through my wall from my electronics > closet to the > projector hung on the ceiling. I'd like to get > something to switch > between the xbox and the htpc using IR. > > What seems to be the best choice is to use an IR > keyboard and a KVM > switch. Then I could program in the hotkey to > switch between the two > into my programmible remote and everything would > work. Ideally it'd be > a USB KVM switch so I could plug both USB cables > into the HTPC so I > could control the HTPC no matter which video signal > was currently active. > > The one problem I'm running into is that if I only > want to play my xbox, > a typical 2-port kvm switch won't be powered unless > the HTPC is on. It > gets it's power through the ps2 or usb cable. > Looking through newegg > it's difficult to determine if any of those kvm > switches will take an > external power supply. > > Does anyone have experience with this? Anyone know > of a decent > inexpensive 2-port kvm switch with external power? > It doesn't even have > to have usb functionality. > > Is there another option? > > Along the same lines, my projector will accept > component inputs on it's > "computer 2" input. In theory I could convert the > VGA-out on my htpc to > component and then run both the component from the > htpc and the xbox > through my receiver and then to the projector. > > How does the quality compare between component video > and vga? Is there > any difference? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
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