MythTV



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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


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I’ve gotten the embedded bug lately.  I dug around for an interesting hardware platform to work with and stumbled across the BeagleBoard.  This 3×3″ board provides impressive multimedia capabilities via the TI OMAP35xx processor.  It appears to serve the purpose I had long ago thought about for the miniITX boards […]

Announcing BeagleBox: Internet video platform for the BeagleBoard



I tested the antenna in my basement with the first of two digital converters (the second from Amazon still hasn't arrived even though it was ordered the same day) and an analog TV.  The antenna was able to pick up all the expected channels which antennaweb.org said we should get.  […]

Antenna up, first digital box tested


The problem with getting rid of cable TV comes from the desire to continue to receive local off-air broadcasts.  When the government mandated switch to digital broadcasts occurred, cable users ignored it because the cable companies would handle the situation for us.  As long as we were plugged into the […]

Dumping cable: not as easy as it might seem


I’ve been having problems with my external USB drives used on my MythTV backend.  The drives are no longer being recognized on bootup.  This started happening after I added additional 500GB and 1TB drives to the system when there was already a 500GB drive.  All of the drives are USB […]

Reviewing disk labels, problems with USB attached drives and running ...



I was researching why Battle of Britain would not auto-fill using the new tmdb.pl in MythTV’s Video Manager when I started a tail on the backend log. tail -f /var/log/mythbackend.log I got a bunch of these messages: 2009-07-07 20:09:22.069 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can not be queried According […]

MythTV: EIT errors in backend log and fixing Video Manager ...





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Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home.  I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop.   Since I’ve now […]

Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop


I’ve been having problems playing flash video on my new system at home.  The system is a 64bit AMD running F10.  Flash video plays but the audio skips a lot.  I had similar problems with other applications but was able to get around it by using the right audio setup, […]

Quickies: Flash 64, fixing skipping audio, mapping keys to applications