So, you’re creating a native archive with MythArchive. You’ve never run it before, so you just give it a go. It can’t write data files to the place the videos are at, so what is it’s failure mode? Well, how about trying to change permissions on every file on the machine? Lovely. 2006-10-13 22:32:23.025 Options…
Category: Mythtv
This is why I went to MythTV
TiVo implements punishment mode for buying their product. Nice.
Updated nuvexport patch
To get nuvexport working with MythTV User Jobs as a transcoder, I needed to further modify my nuvexport patch to handle the fact that there is no controlling terminal for user jobs. Here is the new patch: Index: export/ffmpeg.pm =================================================================== — export/ffmpeg.pm (revision 242) +++ export/ffmpeg.pm (working copy) @@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ # Audio only?…
I got MythBurn working!
It took a few hours, but I have MythBurn (a web interface for creating DVDs with MythTV) finally working. The problem was that the mjpegtools shipped with Ubuntu Dapper crashes with an invalid free(). Compiling from source fixed that. Update: I might have lied. I now have troubles getting Xine to playback the DVD when…
On freely available guide data
One of the flaws with Microsoft’s Media Center flavour of Windows XP when it was released in Australia, was that it suffered from the same inherent flaw as every other PVR option in Australia. No guide data. It really says something about Australia’s television networks that they don’t want to help people with even vaguely…
MythTV frontend on an xbox
Surprisingly easy. Xebian, and pre-compiled packages make me smile. Time spent building the whole thing — about an hour. Children now quiet after Australian DVD player broke in the US — two.
Compiling MythTV 0.19 for Ubuntu Dapper
I’ve been finding that MythTV is really unreliable after dist-upgrading from Breezy to Dapper. In fact, it’s been crashing six or seven times a day, which has been really annoying. I figured I though therefore bight the bullet and upgrade to the latest stable version of MythTV. I was previously running a SVN snapshot because…
Let’s talk about Myth baby, let’s talk about you and me
With apologies to everyone who is reminded of the Salt and Pepa song this title was inspired by, although it’s damn hard to find lyric sites which don’t do evil things like redirecting you to a page you can’t escape from with the back button, or pop up ads. How mid-nineties! Since I moved to…