Movies

PiBox was built as a proof of concept for a variety of purposes. One of those was to serve media in my trailer when we go camping. I use omxplayer to play videos that are provided over SMB between a server and a player system. That works okay but the […]

Streaming just got easier, with DLNA and Roku

Sat January 09, 2016 in General / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Video tagged DLNA / DVD / Fedora / Linux / music / Open Source / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Roku / Video

I’ve been working on PiBox now for a couple of years. The immediate goal is a consumer-oriented device for video playback while not connected to the Internet. In other words, play movies while camping. I have longer term goals for it, but that’s where the project is aimed currently. At […]

Raspberry Pi: Kodi vs PiBox use case comparison

Fri February 06, 2015 in Hardware / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XBMC tagged amazon / DVD / hulu / Kodi / Linux-based devices / Media technology / nfs / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ripping / Subtitle / video playback / wifi / XBMC

Santa, in the form of my wife and daughter, really came through this year. Ry got me a Dell ST2010 HDMI monitor to use with my BeagleBoard. I think she saw the mammoth CRT TV I had hooked up to it and thought I deserved something more modern. I have […]

Happy Holiday: Lilliput and HDMI monitors, another WD archive

Sat January 01, 2011 in BeagleBox / Dell / General / Hardware / Movies / MythTV / Personal / TV / Video tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / dell / HDMI / holiday / MythTV / TV-out / ubuntu (updated 4864 days ago)

Google continues to make changes to Google News that are of no real benefit. They do it in order to satisfy news sources and generate revenue. But the point of a service like Google News is *not* to benefit news sources but to benefit the readers who wish to choose […]

Google News is now irrelevant – Moving to Good Noows

Thu July 01, 2010 in General / Movies / Personal / Politics / sports tagged cable / eye candy / Facebook / google / myyahoo / news bites / news sources / Noows / RSS / sports / technology (updated 5043 days ago)

With the upgrade to F11 I’ve discovered that when I install a DVD GNOME automatically mounts it with an option (right click on the desktop icon) for copying the DVD to an iso image. The ISO is typically 4-8GB which is roughly 3-4 times the size of the AVI files […]

Switching from AVI’s to DVD ISOs for use with MythTV

Tue July 07, 2009 in Fedora / Linux / Movies / Video tagged acidrip / avi files / gnome / mplayer / MythTV / Video / video archives / xine

I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work. In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work. I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes. The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the […]

Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...

Wed January 21, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Movies / MythTV / Open Source / TV / Video / X11 tagged desktop environments / f10 / Fedora / firefox / GIMP / gnome / livna / MythTV / nfs / rpm / vhs tapes / Video / xfce / xine

I just heard about this a few minutes ago: Roland Emmerich will be directing the film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Emmerich directed hits like Independence Day and Stargate along with bombs like 10,000 BC. IMDB says he’s also in pre-production on a remake of Fantastic Voyage. A quick […]