I find it a little hard to believe I am the first to use an Intel Core 2 Duo for MythTV stuff, but I can’t find anyone else reporting this to the MythTV users list… mythtv@mythtv2:~/Desktop/mythtv-0.20$ ./configure *** WARNING *** Your CPU was not detected properly: uname -m: i686 uname -p: unknown model name: Intel(R)…
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Updated: linux.conf.au 2007 MythTV tutorial homework
The final version of the MythTV tutorial homework is online. I promise no more changes now (unless they’re minor bug fixes), mainly because I get on a plane in 9 hours to come to Australia. Note that the bottom of the homework gives the details for a VMWare image if you’re too lazy to do…
Updated: linux.conf.au 2007 MythTV tutorial homework
I spent the afternoon updating the linux.conf.au MythTV tutorial homework. I did all the homework on a VMWare virtual machine, and it took me about four hours to complete, given that compilation was slow for me in the virtual machine, but downloading was fast. Next steps are adding ffmpeg setup to the homework, and putting…
First cut of the tutorial homework is ready
Stewart and I are just now putting the finishing touches on our MythTV tutorial for linux.conf.au. Because it’s a tutorial and is therefore meant to be hands one we want people to come along with a machine which is configured so it can take part in a bunch of the demos. To that end we…
Recovering lost MythTV recordings
I had one of those moments tonight, and accidentally dropped the mythconverg database on my production MythTV instance, not the development one. This made me sad. Luckily I had a backup which was only a week old (although I am now running night backups of that database). Recovery wasn’t too bad once I wrote some…
Importing downloaded videos as recordings into MythTV
I’ve been playing with downloading videos and treating them as recordings in MythTV because the MythTV player is nicer than Xine, and because it works well as a demo for the linux.conf.au tutorial I am working on at the moment. I wont document it here because it’s not quite ready, but it’s actually quite easy…
Want HDTV but only for US free to air?
The HDHomeRun seems to be a pretty useful device. There are a bunch of people on the MythTV mailing lists trying these things out at the moment. It’s a networked dual tuner HD set top box. Kinda cool. Now, if only someone would come up with a digital cable card which works with MythTV…
Book status
I was thinking about the delivery status of the MythTV book as I was going off to sleep last night, and it occurred to me that the book is pretty much done. It’s a good feeling. Stewart needs to finish poking a chapter on cut lists and so forth, with should be minimal effort, then…
A MythTV Jabber bot
While I love my wife and kids to distraction, the distraction bit is real. Then again, I’m sure they have a counter argument that I tend to end up deep in thought, and which point you could probably push me off my chair and I wouldn’t notice. Anyway, that’s mostly beside the point. What is…
Cat, bag, out
So, I guess the cat is out of the bag then… Stewart and I are working on the finishing stages of a book on MythTV. Amazon now has it listed for pre-order. [btags:]