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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
I upgraded my Mythtv server from Feisty to Gutsy for no good reason (other than I like the pain).
Gotchas I ran into when trying to get MythTV working again:
1. The upgrade lost/removed the libqt3-mysql support from my computer. This resulted in the MythTV applications (frontend and backend) giving "unable to connect to database" errors. As [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
On our van trip across the country my aunt and uncle gave us two hand crank (dynamo) LED flashlights which are really useful to keep in the van. The self-charging nature of the flashlights are very nice, in that we can leave them in the van and just wind them up when we need light. [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
I built a perl script that can be used as a "User Job" from within mythtv to convert a recorded TV program into a cell phone (.3gp) movie. It makes uses of mythname.pl to get the show and title (for the filename) and mplayer/mencoder and ffmpeg to do the actual transcoding.
Unless you want to drop [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
After getting ATT/Cingular to take the subsidy lock off my phone, I decided to flash it with the generic International Motorola firmware. The advantages:
The Motorola firmware is not "branded" and gets rid of all of the "Shop Cingular" links, menu items, etc.
The quadband firmware claims to support all 4 GSM bands (instead of the 3 [...]
Sunday, September 23, 2007
I wanted to get Album Art for all of my (newly ripped) songs on my MythTV box.
Thierry has a nice perl script which finds album art on Amazon and automatically downloads it, but unfortunately for me the music plugin for MythTV has upgraded their database schema and the script no longer worked. I am [...]
I've built a MythTV home media PC, attempting to keep the costs down. It's already cost $539, which is more than a Tivo HD ($299), and very close to a Tivo Series 3 ($575). The advantages over buying a TVIO include:
DVD / CD playback and archiving to HD.
Cheaper subscription costs (Free over the air, or [...]
At our wedding, my wife and I provided blank guest-book pages at each table, along with a glass of colored markers. The guests really enjoyed filling in the open-ended blanks. After the wedding, we sorted the pages and then had them bound to make a personalized keepsake.
At the bottom of [...]
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Hacking the iPod Touch - Jailbreak to 1.1.3 w/ extra apps
General info:
How to put an ipod touch into restore mode: Plug it into your computer, and turn on iTunes, then: hold the power and home buttons down until it resets. Release the power button, but keep the home button held until it enters recovery mode.
How to restore to a specific version of the firmware [...]