MythTV

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6794 days ago)

After about 1 1/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop. If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn't a straight forward configuration to get everything working. I'm pleased to say that is no longer the case. FC5 covers essentially […]

Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade

Tue September 12, 2006 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6803 days ago)

I've got MythTV working with a keyboard now, but the builtin IR receiver and remote are sending signals to the keyboard and I'm not to good with trying to learn how to map the remote into the keyboard driver. I managed to get the down arrow to map to a […]

MythTV and the HP de100c

Mon September 04, 2006 in de100c / Hardware / MythTV tagged lirc / MythTV

I'm building a mythclient for use at home. It's being installed on FC5 using the ATRPMS repository so I can do a simply yum install mythtv-suite. Except that there is a missing dependency that, as it turns out, is hard as hell to resolve. MythMusic depends on libmp4ff which (after […]

MythTV 0.19 and Fedora yum dependency problem: libmp4ff

Mon September 04, 2006 in Audio / MythTV tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / rpm / yum

My daughter won the Colorado High School 4A State Championship for #2 Singles in tennis this past weekend. High school team tennis runs with 7 lines, with 3 singles lines (1-3) and 4 doubles (1-4). My daughter plays line 2, primarily because the state champion at line 1 is also […]

Linux video editing: Avidemux2

Fri May 19, 2006 in Audio / Linux / MythTV / Video tagged Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6921 days ago)

I upgraded to v1.9 of the kernel driver but I’m still not getting consistant response from the tablet. I also changed to using /dev/input/mouse0 for the USB mouse and Synaptics pad in the xorg.conf file. This change should prevent any chance that the tablet is sending mouse events and mucking […]

Notes on the Aiptek kernel driver

Sun October 23, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged MythTV (updated 7118 days ago)

After experimenting a bit I found that AcidRIP wrapped around mplayer’s mencoder produced much smaller AVI files for my archives. In general, I was able to use the following process top rip DVDs: Put the DVD in the drive and click on “Load DVD”. Choose the first title (listed by […]

AcidRIP – smaller and faster is better

Thu October 06, 2005 in General / Linux / Video tagged MythTV / Video (updated 7118 days ago)

I’ve got a MythTV server at home that I’ve slowly been filling with movies. I’ve been buying the movies then ripping them to disk with DVD::RIP. The main use for this is in my office where I watch (actually just listen) to a movie on one workspace while I work […]

A video library: ripping with mencoder, acidrip, transcode and DVD::RIP

Mon September 19, 2005 in Linux / Video tagged Fedora / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 7118 days ago)

Daniel Lyons interview of Larry McVoy might raise the wrath of open source purists, but he raises some good points about the difficulty in building a software business around open source ideals. Unfortunately, his conclusions based on his own experience with those difficulties don’t quite stand up to inspection. Open […]

Not quite heretic, but not quite right, either.

Thu May 26, 2005 in Linux tagged dell / GIMP / graphics / Linux / mysql / MythTV / Open Source (updated 7271 days ago)

My daily trauling of news sources today brought me around to this very old article: Evolution, not revolution, in PC’s future | CNET News.com. What I found interesting about the images of future PCs is that they all look like bad sci-fi props. Visionary design my buttocks. PCs will never […]

Evolution of the PC = no design whatsoever.

Thu March 03, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged epia / MythTV (updated 7364 days ago)

Since mylast entry RLXTechnologies has folded, leaving me (yet again) on the job hunt. They aren’t actually shut down but they cut 80% of the staff. The hardware guys up in Portland got picked up by Intel, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure how manyfrom my group are left […]

As the stomach churns…

Thu January 13, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / epia / graphics / holiday / intel / Linux / linux format / mysql / MythTV / Open Source / Writing (updated 7412 days ago)

I’m making progress – the kernel modules all load now. I had to switch to RH’s insmod from Busybox’s because translucency.o won’t load with BusyBox’s. That means all insmod’s need -r now and all modprobe’s don’t work (they got switched to insmod’s). But that pretty much matches what Larry did […]

MythTV segfaults when starting LiveTV

Sun October 24, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV

Michael J. Hammel

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