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MythTV with HDHomeRuns on VLAN
My kit for this exercise is: SonicWall: TZ 215, (SonicOS Enhanced 5.9.1.10-1o) SonicWall setup This section creates the SonicWall stuff that takes the VLAN from the VMware ESX host and connects it to a SonicWall interface port. To keep everything simple because we are using the SonicWall interface “X2” we will call the zones “HDHomeRunX2”… read more…
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Fedora, Linux, IR Remotes, LiRC and MythTV
This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running with a hard drive install of Fedora LiveCD and I did this work in May… read more…
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MythTV, EPG, Terrestrial and HDHomeRun
Recently we switched our MythTV system from using satellite to terrestrial reception using the HDHomeRun by SiliconDust. Unfortunately what had been a perfectly working EPG under satellite turned into a one day wonder under terrestrial – I could only see one days listing. I should point out that we live in New Zealand and the… read more…
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Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend
I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend when it stops responding. The solution I took was to create shell script that would… read more…
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Disabling screensavers on Fedora 16
The motivation here was that I had a MythTV frontend running in our lounge connected to a 42″ flat screen with LED back lighting, I had no need to have a screensaver and actually found it very annoying. Unfortunately, at least on Fedora 16, disabling or removing the screensaver is not as easy as you… read more…
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Fedora 16 with NVidia GT 610 and MythTV
The trials and tribulations of getting an NVidia GT 610 graphics card working on a Fedora 16 MythTV frontend. This article details what worked for me. read more…
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Can’t delete a recording
Overview I have had a number of recordings that I just can’t delete. Some were when I was experimenting with MythArchive and others were just standard deletes. In my case I try to delete and it seems to work but then the recording keeps showing up. When I click on the download though I get… read more…
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Miscellaneous MythTV bits of info
This article contains various sundry pieces of info for MythTV setups etc. Typically useful pieces of info that may not logically fit anywhere else and you don’t want to create a post just to list a tiny piece of info. Directories Theme root directory This is the root directory where you would put any custom… read more…
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BFrames – what are they
Resource Video compression picture types (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_frames Description There are three types of pictures (or frames) used in video compression: I‑frames, P‑frames, and B‑frames. An I‑frame is an ‘Intra-coded picture’, in effect a fully-specified picture, like a conventional static image file. P‑frames and B‑frames hold only part of the image information, so they need less… read more…
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