Home Entertainment Centre

jwarder · **17th January 2007, 02:04 AM**

Hiya, I have a few questions ask regarding Linux

Ok I have been told this can be done through Linux, I have built a Media Centre pc running Windows MCE 2005, it is located under the stairs in my house and the VGA & Audio signal are distributed around the house over CAT5, which is all well and good, but the problem is that if someone say in the bedroom wants to send an email, and the someone in the lounge wants to play music, it can't be done because its just sending the one thing everywhere, so people have said why not just have media extenders in everyroom, well I don't want that either because I might as well just built media centres and stick them in every room in the house. What I am looking for is one central machine with multiple tuners, multiple graphics card feeding each room independantly, so people can do seperate things on the one system at the same. Can this be done if so how lol?

Thanks very much,
Jack

falcc · **17th January 2007, 08:08 AM**

You could use MediaPortal's V3 TV engine as a TV Server as such. You would still need separate devices though.

I'm not aware of anything under windows that can do exactly what you want. Particularly the multiple video cards thing. You could setup a terminal server(or even citrix) but you aren't going to get the best video and sound quality and again, you still need client devices in each location.