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Monthly Archives: April 2008

MythTV / MythDVD movie ripping / playback problem (Solved!)

Monday, April 28, 2008

I have used Myth to rip a large number of my DVD's to AVI files (using either the Excellent or Good setting).  Now that I am starting to play back the movies, I have found something that is very troubling.
On many of the movies, the first 95% of the movie (e.g. 1:13 min of [...]

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Connecting to non-broadcasting SSID networks with IPW2200

Sunday, April 20, 2008

I have been having problems connecting to a wireless network that does not broadcast its  SSID. (A so-called "hidden" network.) I am using an Intel IPW 2200 802.11b/g mini-pci wireless card that uses the ipw2200 wireless module.
I found that reloading the ipw2200 module before attempting to connect to the network fixed my problems (but only [...]

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DPMS monitor control via remote control on Myth TV

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I am using an LCD monitor as the display for my MythTV box, connected via an analog RGB (a.k.a. VGA) cable. This allows me to use DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) to turn the monitor on and off from the MythTV box.
Instructions for setting this up with MythTV are here , but I found that [...]

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