Video

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 ...

 in Linux / MythTV  tagged battle of britain / mythbackend / MythTV / tmdb / ubuntu / useonairguide / Video (updated 5362 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 ...

 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
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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

 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 ...

 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 ...

 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 5584 days ago)
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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

 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 5594 days ago)
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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

 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 5594 days ago)
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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 ...

 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 5607 days ago)