On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:51:49AM -0700, Joe Votour wrote: > Part of it is who would care, but also, from a > technical standpoint, it's very difficult to do.
On top of all that, this is a "live-only" feature. Since if you just wanted to watch both at different times you would just record both, then watch them serially or interspersed, probably watching one of them at 2x fast forward, for example. However, it's actually not that difficult to do -- in fact you can do it yourself, without changes to myth, though you will have some intersting focus problems. Step 1: Record both programs, and start watching in near-live the one that you want to fill most of the screen. Yes, you need two tuners of course to record 2 shows at once. Step 2: Find the file of the other program in live recording. This is not to hard with ls -l, but mythlink.pl in the contrib directory can let you find it easily. Invoke "mplayer -vf crop=<dimensions of crop window> -vo x11 file.nuv" Run this mplayer window on top of your mythtv playing window. Move it into position. Want to get fancy? Tell myth to run the video in an X window you can resize. There's a checkbox in setup for that. Then you can shrink the main window so you can see all of it, and then move in your cropped window with the crawl. Be sure to use the -vo x11. This takes much more CPU than normal xv, but you can only have one xv at a time, and you want that for your main window. You may want to add a scale= filter as well to size your crawl window the way you like it.
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