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 [...]
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 [...]
If you own a JVC video recorder, you may have noticed that it stores it’s videos in TOD format. This is highly annoying as it’s not very useful if you want to view it on a simply device such as a Western Digital TV HD Media Player. The good news, is that there is a [...]
Fedora 10 is finally out! I’ve been waiting for this for some time now. I note these improvements: ext4 filesystem support, glitch-free audio and better support for remote controls (release notes –> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/). It’s just what the doctor ordered for getting my mythtv server to perform better than ever before. I’m going to take the [...]
