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One of the longterm goals for PiBox is to integrate it into the home. I want to see the PiBox Server provide centralized communication for an array of IoT devices. One way to do this is with Bluetooth Low-Energy, aka BLE, aka Bluetooth 4.0. This specification allows very low power […]

PiBox: bluetooth for video means no omxplayer

Mon July 27, 2015 in Audio / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / Video tagged crosstool-ng / gcc / kernel / Linaro / mplayer / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / toolchain / Video / video player

Tonight I built the linux-omap-dss2 repo (master branch) from gitorious.org and tried it. This is the repo from the guy working on the OMAP DSS2 support in the kernel. And viola! S-Video output is once again working! BeagleBox now defaults to mainline u-boot (2010.09, at least) an this branch of […]

BeagleBox: DSS2/TV-out success!

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / DSS2 / mplayer / NTSC / omap / S-Video / TV-out / Video

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

Sun October 17, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 4937 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

AcidRip hasn’t been updated in a long time. In fact, I’m not even sure anyone is maintaining it anymore. But I still use it quite a bit. Today I noticed, after an yum update for F10, that the previews just wouldn’t work anymore. So I looked at the debug window […]