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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

Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home). About the only […]

Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10

Sat November 29, 2008 in General tagged atrpms / Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / holiday / ivtv / Linux / livna / multimedia / mysql / MythTV / rpm / ubuntu / Video / Wordpress / Writing / yum (updated 5595 days ago)

After installing F9 I had to go through the process of reinstalling all my old multimedia tools. Fedora doesn’t generally include support for playing MP3s or DVDs so you have to install them from alternate repositories such as Livna or ATrpms. I’d written up how to do this in the […]

Fedora 9 postinstall: multimedia dependencies, sounds and other annoyances

Sat August 16, 2008 in Fedora / Linux / MythTV tagged atrpms / Fedora / livna / multimedia / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 5734 days ago)

I keep running into this problem and I decided it was time to make notes on how I resolve it. The problem is that I’ve used the methods I’ve described previously to include missing multimedia support in Fedora 7 and when I do updates I run into this problem: Error: […]

Updating xine with DVD playback (or how to deal with ...

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum

My main system at work is up to date now, thanks to some help with missing multimedia tools and various other applications. Two sites helped with this: The Fedora 7 Installation Guide and Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support. Both are well written and very helpful, but not absolutely complete. Neither […]

Fedora 7: The missing applications

Wed October 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum (updated 6038 days ago)

It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]

Upgrading to Fedora 7 and MythTV 0.20.2 (Schedules Direct)

Sat September 29, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / MythTV / X11 tagged atrpms / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / Linux / livna / mysql / MythTV / rpm / Video / xrandr / yum (updated 6051 days ago)

I just did an update on my FC5 boxes and found that FC5 Extras will update Xine in a way that removes functionality that was there previously. This includes the ability to play DVDs. I’m not sure the reasoning, though I think it has something to do with removing "non-free" […]