R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:
Jeff Simpson wrote:
I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with a
built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to
have
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. I
think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
could be
presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated with just
my fingertips.
If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go
the console
with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually
displaying video + etc,
and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost
significantly less than
a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a remote or
arrow keys very easily.
To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.
I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that
describes how to set that up?
I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any
device using command line options but how do I do this with the "player"
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?
Another route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the Phillips
Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are
programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony RM-AV series
have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a full
computer box with touchscreen.
Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth.
You could program your cell phone as a remote...
I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for
it...
True but that is a one way solution. I want to see music lists etc, I
want two way communication in the SAME device.
I can come up with lots of solutions. This one would be really cool and
that is why I want it.
All other HTPC projects I've seen support this. I think it is sad that
Myth lacks mouse support since Myth i superiour when it comes to
everything else.
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