The other morning I walked out to my five year old watching Robot Chicken. This isn’t what I would call the highlight of my parenting career, but it did leave me with an immediate need to come up with a solution to stopping the kids from watching inappropriate things now that they’re big enough to…
Category: Mythtv
How to transcode video for the Nokia N800
I have a Nokia N800 that I haven’t had much time to play with, but I am about to go away on a trip which will involve a lot of time commuting on buses, so I figure I should start thinking about it again. Luckily for me, this page has pretty good instructions of what…
Building a symlink tree for MythTV recordings
I wanted to build a directory of symlinks that pointed to my MythTV recordings, so I wrote a little python script to do it for me. I figure someone else might find this useful too… #!/usr/bin/python # Copyright (C) Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) 2007 # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL import MySQLdb import…
Review
“If you’re interested in setting up a PVR, then this is definitely a book to check out. Apress sells the paper version for $30, and offers an eBook for $15. Amazon offers it for $19.79, but I doubt that price will last long. I definitely give this book a 5 out of 5…” http://www.yeraze.com/article.php/20070603160650701
Book printed!
I got off the phone with Catherine a few hours ago, and apparently my copies of the book have arrived at home (I’m in Dublin for work at the moment). That’s very exciting. Looks like now would be a good time to buy it, while it’s shipping soon and still on special.
Status
The book went to print two days ago. Now we wait for it to come back…
I just noticed…
That I forgot to put the slides from Stewart and my MythTV tutorial at LCA online. So, here they are, and sorry for the delay. You can also see the video of the tutorial here, and the homework we set here. Weirdly, there is even a remix video of the presentation.
Done and done
Stewart finished off the last trailing chapter of the MythTV book a week or so ago, and I finished the last copy edit (the process where we learn US grammar) just now. That means we only need to have page layout done for a chapter or so and we’re home. Hurrah!
MythTV on AMD 64
I just built a sweet MythTV backup based on an Athlon X2 64 bit CPU. To get MythTV to compile, you need to change -ldts to -ldts_pic in libs/labavcodecs/Makefile. That is all.
MythNetTV beta 4
As it says in the email: To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> Subject: MythNetTV beta 4 Hi again. MythNetTv is my video downloader / aggregator / importer thingie for MythTV. I’ve spent a little longer testing this beta, and I think it’s getting kinda ready for a real release number or something. New things in this…