Posts about MythTV the great open source media center http://www.mythtv.org
I have an aging MythTV frontend and separate backend that I need to upgrade. The plan of attack is to create a new system, get it running smoothly and work out a migration strategy. Then once the new system is … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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.
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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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading