restart mythfrontend using your remote control and irexec

mythfrontend sometimes freezes on me. So I configured a button on my remote control to enable me to kill mythfrontend and restart it. This is really useful especially if you don’t have a keyboard and mouse plugged into your machine all the time or if you just want to make it all wife friendly. Here’s [...]

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mythtv 0.22 released – finally

In case you didn’t here, mythtv 0.22 has finally been released. I’ve been waiting more than 1 year for it to be released! Check it out now http://www.mythtv.org

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Auto Login on Fedora Core 9, 10 & 11

As you may not I’m a big fan of mythtv and I want to have Fedora Core 9 (it’s works for 10 and 11 too) login automatically when the PC is booted up.
For some reason on Fedora 9 gdm is different and you can’t easily configure it to auto login through the GUI, but here’s [...]

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DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express setup on Linux (Fedora 10)

I purchased a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express recently and I had quite a hard time getting it to work on Fedora Core 10 (FC10). I did get it to work so I thought I would share what I did. It works well on mythtv.
Step 1) Download v4l-dvb version that works!
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb/
Step 2) Compile [...]

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Converting NUV (mythtv) video to AVI (DIVX) without transcoding

As you may or may not know I’m a big fan of mythtv (www.mythtv.org). However mythtv transcodes videos in NUV (nupple video) format which is quite useless to use on anything other than mythtv. In fact mythtv seems to be the sole user of nuv format these days.
I’ve played around with mythtv for some time [...]

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