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Fighting for Internet Freedom: Moby, REM, Indigo Girls, Dixie ...

Fri May 19, 2006 in Politics tagged Video (updated 6921 days ago)

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)

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)

The i915 driver snapshot from freedesktop.org fixed my problems with the video on my Acer Aspire 1690. It even allows the graphical boot (aka rhgb) to function again. But I still can’t use the DVD player. I still get lots of errors related to accessing hdb in /var/log/messages. I’ll have […]

Laptop Update: video fixed

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware / Video tagged acer / aspire / Video (updated 7118 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]

A new laptop – Acer Aspire 1690

Sat June 04, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / rpm / Video / X11 (updated 7118 days ago)

My daughter taught us a new slang term the other day: The Hoodlands. That’s the nickname the kids have given to the area we live in, known more commonly as The Woodlands which is a northern Houston suburb. I’m not clear on why the kids call it that, though my […]

Hiding in the Hoodlands

Sat October 30, 2004 in Politics tagged Video (updated 7487 days ago)

The via_v4l_drv.o module is available and the init.sh script should be loading it, but apparently it didn’t get loaded – maybe the load order is wrong. Anyway, once that module is loaded then /dev/video2, which makes me think MythTV will be happier and possibly run now. I think I just […]

MythTV: via_v4l_drv not loading

Sat October 23, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / Video (updated 6122 days ago)

I’ve finally got my minimyth build environment for the PXE files (boot kernel and cramfs ramdisk) working to the point where MythTV will come up. The build process is fairly clean – you can build different components individually then rebuild the “pkg” (kernel and cramfs). That makes working on updates […]

MiniMyth Build System

Thu October 07, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / rpm / Video

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…