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patrickl:
Was there a point in there? I saw a lot of sentences, but I guess my limited working knowledge of english made me miss you train of thought :P (I'm not being sarcastic, I just couldn't understand the general idea of what you where trying to say)

Anyway, my cab will be in the part of my living room where the pool table is and I don't have a stereo there. If my cab can play some music I guess ... why not.

I have a (wireless) remote control for my PC so volume control and such will not really be an issue.

vputz:
Multihead, my good man.  Pretty sure you could do this in Linux with no trouble; either get a second monitor or a second (PCI) vid card and two sound cards (onboard + SBLive or some such).  Direct the MAME games and jukebox to play through different sound devices so you could have independent control.  Pretty sure you could attach two keyboards so that one "head" would get input from one for MAME and the small screen can get input from the other.

Hmmm... actually there's probably a way to set up a virtual mixer so that you wouldn't need two sound cards and set up a separate script to monitor a USB input like a volume knob so you wouldn't need a separate screen.

Hmm, or a script which would monitor which MAME ROM was being run, so you could have playlists associated with different games; I bet that would work too.

Or--TOO cool, make a double-headed MAME box with two instances of MAME running simultaneously and communicating with one of the hacks people have done to allow multiplayer games running simultaneously on two monitors.  Even cooler if they were the joint games (T-Mek and such) where each person would ordinarily have a separate terminal anyway.

OR, a two-headed MAME box with a separate serial LCD which would display the jukebox information, controlled by a separate input device (mixer/shuttle-jog control) so you could have BOTH MAME screens playing a joint game simultaneously with a jukebox playing custom playlists based on the existing playing ROMs...

I wonder how many screens a Linux X server could support?  This could be the hydra of doom!  Two on MAME, one on the jukebox, one with TV, one with DVD... would be quite a cacaphony and you'd have to have a heckuva processor, but it'd be cool.  More efficient to have multiple boxes, I'd think, but that doesn't diminish the coolness of trying...

-->VPutz

SirPeale:
It's not so much how many screens it could support, but how much load you're going to put on the processor.

MAME takes a *lot* of pony power.  Decoding MP3s would put a big cramp on that.

paigeoliver:
A jukebox doesn't need to be LARGE, nor does it need a fast computer. My 486 laptop can play mp3s with no problems. So if you really want a separate jukebox then buy a used 14" monitor ($10 is about the right price for those), a used Pentium computer (once again $10), and make your jukebox barely larger than the monitor.

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