December 13, 2008 – 1:52 pm
I’m five and half years into my journey with MythTV, and in that time I’ve managed to upgrade my system several times. Back in 2006 I wrote a tutorial on installing MythTV under Ubuntu with a pcHDTV card and a firewire tuner. While some pieces of the machine remain the same, most of the pieces [...]
December 11, 2008 – 6:01 pm
Way back in May of 2003, when the internet was ugly and Web 2.0 didn’t exist yet, CompUSA had an online deal that caught my eye - a WinTV PVR-250 Hardware MPEG Encoder card for $99 after rebate. I had been debating the whole media center setup for a while and decided this was good [...]
October 20, 2007 – 5:28 pm
Today I gave a talk to WPLUG on MythTV. I think it ended up going pretty well and it was quite well attended. Most people seemed interested in seeing what they could do with scavenging some computers and trying to get started with MythTV on the cheap. That’s pretty easy if you [...]
September 5, 2007 – 10:08 am
The recent demise of Zap2it labs and the subsuquent creation of Schedules Direct was a pretty remarkable change in the MythTV community. The community now has an almost official blessing from a TV Guide service to continue, a pretty big event for most open source projects.
However, due to the infrastructure of MythTV, it’s not [...]
Somehow I’m becoming a bit of a treehugger. Either that or I’m just getting annoyed with how hot rooms in the house get as a when I have computers on all the time. So, I set out to figure out how much power each of my computers takes to run and how much this [...]
January 13, 2006 – 11:18 am
If you’re running MythTV on an Athlon 64 platform, you’ve probably
noticed that the CPU throttles itself down when transcoding and cutting
commercials despite the fact that your processor may show as being
100% utilized. This results in much slower transcoding than one would
normally expect, but saves a small amount of power.
However, if you record a lot [...]
December 7, 2005 – 2:08 pm
After trying a new motherboard and all that jazz to get my HDTV tuner card working
properly I decided to try a new operating system. The thing that prompted this was
the notice that some people thought it might be a buffer related issue that was
causing some of the reception problems with the card. I [...]
November 20, 2005 – 9:20 pm
After much frustration I’ve decided that no matter how many bells and whistles the MSI K8N-Neo4 Platinum has, it still can’t make up for the fact that I get some crazy bad electormagnetic interference when the system is under heavy load. At first I thought it was just going to be on the pcHDTV [...]
November 17, 2005 – 11:08 am
I’ve been writing a nice tutorial on setting up
MythTV on Ubuntu x86_64 over the course of the past few weeks. Please feel free to browse
it and give feedback. It still is a work in progress and I could certainly use some help in
some spots. I should clarify this by explaining that I’ve [...]
November 10, 2005 – 6:48 pm
I wrote a patch for MythTV
that fixes some of the issues with a DCT 6200 being on a system where node 1 is not established. This is useful
for folks like me have multiple firewire ports on their PCs. I feel ownership in MythTV now. Woot.