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I'm in the process of creating a set of slides at work to describe a software product we're working on. Making slides is easy. I just use OpenOffice. Publicizing the slides is just as easy. I use Slideshare.net. An interesting feature of this site is the ability to add audio […]

Creating slides with audio on Linux for SlideShare

Mon January 18, 2010 in General tagged Fedora / gnome / Linux / Video (updated 5582 days ago)

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 ...

Tue July 07, 2009 in Linux / MythTV tagged battle of britain / mythbackend / MythTV / tmdb / ubuntu / useonairguide / Video (updated 5726 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

The terms of service apparently changed for imdb.com and the original imdb.pl script in MythTV that is used to retrieve data about movies (via the Video Manager) is no longer working properly. The results vary but in my case the director information was not be pulled properly. There is a […]

Update to MythVideo imdb.pl – getting the right metadata for ...

Sun July 05, 2009 in Linux / MythTV tagged Fedora / MythTV / tmdb / Video

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 […]

AcidRip mod: Fix for faulty previews

Sat March 14, 2009 in Audio / Hardware / Linux tagged acidrip / f10 / mplayer / sdl / update / Video / yum (updated 5892 days ago)

For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop. I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora. For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running […]

Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...

Sun March 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / NVidia / Video / x86-64 tagged 64bit cpu / acer / dual monitors / f10 / gdm / gnome / intel / java / laptop / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / rpm / suse / ubuntu / Video / xine

I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]

Using xrandr with external display ports

Mon February 09, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / General / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11 tagged acer / aspire / f10 / Fedora / gdm / gnome / intel / intel driver / Linux / MythTV / vga port / Video / xorg / xrandr

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

Judging from the most used searches and posts (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high. While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having […]

Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about ...

Sat January 17, 2009 in Fedora / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11 tagged dell / drm / graphics / intel / intel driver / kde / kernel / Linux / nvidia / Open Source / Video / Wordpress / X11 / xorg (updated 5947 days ago)

My problems with the intel driver provided in the F10 distribution have been resolved. I had to compile the driver manually, along with the libdrm prerequisite, but it was rather painless and surprisingly easy to accomplish. MythTV is now happily serving up live TV and videos on my laptop monitor […]

F10 and xorg intel driver: solved

Tue January 06, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / MythTV tagged autogen / drm / f10 / freedesktop / graphics / intel / intel driver / kernel / laptop / Linux / live tv / MythTV / rpm / Video / xorg / xrandr (updated 5958 days ago)

Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server). The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10. However, my laptop supports dual monitors. Of course, that didn’t work out of […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead

Thu January 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged acer / aspire / dual monitors / Fedora / freedesktop / gdm / graphics / holiday / intel / intel driver / laptop / Linux / linux format / multihead / multimedia / MythTV / Open Source / red hat / rpm / sports / vga port / Video / video memory / virtual display / X11 / xorg / xrandr (updated 5957 days ago)

Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...

Thu December 18, 2008 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11 tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5970 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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