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 [...]

Posted Under: Linux, mythtv
This post was written by Matt on December 4, 2009 Comments Off

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 [...]

Posted Under: Technology, mythtv
This post was written by Matt on March 9, 2009 Comments (1)