Re: TFT monitor as TV

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James wrote:
>> It looks very good, but there are a few features that I prefer in
>> Xlobby (always the way, eh?), such as the weather reports. 
Ideally,
>> I'd have a server multicasting the data controlled by xAP or xPL,
>> and send the relevent commands from Xlobby.
> http://www.mi4.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38
> will let you do the control of DigiTV via xAP. You should be able to
> easily send xAP messages from the command line from an xlobby button.

I'd not seen that before!  You're an absolute star!

> Two things:
> 1, You will need to use at least 2 of the xAP servers. Things like
> volume control, osd, mute will need to be handled by the client but
> the channel change will need to be done on the server.
> 2, I used in the past a p3 1ghz laptop to pick up a multicast
> broadcast,
> just 1 stream, and it took over 80% cpu, I fear a p2 just won't be
> able
> to do it.

I was afraid of that.

> That assumes that I can find a client that works with
>> the multicast software, or multicast software that works with the
>> card!
> digitv and xAP does all you need, except speed the laptops up!

I was hoping that it wouldn't take much power to split the multiplex and
multicast it onto the network, so the server would cope fine.  Also, I was
hoping that only multicasting one channel would mean I could use a
different
player that is less hungry on resources, so I'd only need something capable
of playing MPEG2 video (ie. PII is fine).

Cheers,
Andy
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