2011-10-03, 20:00
Hi!
I was almost done with my home media configuration and happy with it when suddenly my laptop died! I used to have that in my bedroom connected to a 42"plasma.
Ofc now I was looking for a new way to get xbmc in my bedroom.
First off the ATV2 looked like a neat little box - cheap - small, and would probably fit my needs just fine.
HOWEVER
I was thinking of an even more awesome way to do this, hear me out pls
In my livingroom I have a Asrock ION 330 connected to a 47" led tv. The Asrock itself is stowed away in a "box" with some other stuff (router, modem etc..) its well cooled down with fans.
I usually control is with my iphone, but have a dinovo keyboard for when its needed.
Since the TV in the bedroom is an old plasma that is "HD-Ready" with useless native res I might aswell try something different.
I was thinking of using a VGA->DVI (or VGA-VGA) cable ~10meters and use on the Secondary Video output on the Asrock, and using the same box for both Livingroom/Bedroom.
This should in theory work pretty decent?
The problem is that its somewhat a hassle to change video output in XBMC, is it possible to do this with the press of a key?
Some kind of macro to change XBMC Video output and Sound output at the same time with the flick of a key would be ultra awesomeosaurus.
Someone just tell me right away if i'm way out of bounds here, before i go buy cables and stuff.
Currently running a devel build of openelec, but have no problems switching to other builds in necessary for it to work properly.
Thanks for your feedback, Really!
I was almost done with my home media configuration and happy with it when suddenly my laptop died! I used to have that in my bedroom connected to a 42"plasma.
Ofc now I was looking for a new way to get xbmc in my bedroom.
First off the ATV2 looked like a neat little box - cheap - small, and would probably fit my needs just fine.
HOWEVER
I was thinking of an even more awesome way to do this, hear me out pls
In my livingroom I have a Asrock ION 330 connected to a 47" led tv. The Asrock itself is stowed away in a "box" with some other stuff (router, modem etc..) its well cooled down with fans.
I usually control is with my iphone, but have a dinovo keyboard for when its needed.
Since the TV in the bedroom is an old plasma that is "HD-Ready" with useless native res I might aswell try something different.
I was thinking of using a VGA->DVI (or VGA-VGA) cable ~10meters and use on the Secondary Video output on the Asrock, and using the same box for both Livingroom/Bedroom.
This should in theory work pretty decent?
The problem is that its somewhat a hassle to change video output in XBMC, is it possible to do this with the press of a key?
Some kind of macro to change XBMC Video output and Sound output at the same time with the flick of a key would be ultra awesomeosaurus.
Someone just tell me right away if i'm way out of bounds here, before i go buy cables and stuff.
Currently running a devel build of openelec, but have no problems switching to other builds in necessary for it to work properly.
Thanks for your feedback, Really!
