Category: MythTV
MoinMoin as a Personal Wiki, Zen To Done, And A Bit of Ikiwiki
September 30th, 2009, 9 Comments
Since I last evaluated and complained about wikis last year, I’ve been using moinmoin for two sites: a public one and a personal one. The personal site has notes on various projects, and my task lists. I’ve been starting out with the Zen To Done (ebook, PDF, paper) idea. It sounds great, by the way; [...]
How To Record High-Definition MythTV Files to DVD or Blu-Ray
September 27th, 2009, 4 Comments
I’ve long had a problem. Back on January 20, I took the day off work to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. I saved the HD video recordings MythTV made of the day (off the ATSC broadcast), intending to eventually save them somehow. I hadn’t quite figured out how until recently, so there they sat: [...]
Don’t Buy Albatron
June 23rd, 2005, 6 Comments
My MythTV box has an Albatron KM18GPro motherboard in it. Last week, the Ethernet port on it went dead. I can plug in a known good cable, and don’t even get LED activity on the port. Plug the same cable into any number of other machines, and it works fine. (This is repeatable across different [...]
HDTV Works! Woohoo!
May 27th, 2005, 5 Comments
Finally, HDTV is completely working in my MythTV setup. The pcHDTV 3000 card is working nicely with the DVB drivers. My problem was playback performance. After switching to nVidia cards, this is fixed. I got a nVidia Geforce 6800 card for my main workstation. Overkill for MythTV, yes, but it is a stellar performer with [...]
HDTV Working with MythTV!
May 16th, 2005, 12 Comments
Some time back, I bought a pcHDTV HD-3000 card to use with MythTV. For various reasons, I never got around to getting it set up. Until now. First, a quick background. HDTV is a means to transmit television signals digitally. In the USA, a standard called ATSC is used for over-the-air transmissions. ATSC transmissions can [...]
Hidden Dangers of MythTV
January 10th, 2005, No Comments
If you’re not careful, you may find MythTV interferes with your thought patterns…
MythTV update
August 11th, 2004, 3 Comments
I’ve received two e-mails from people asking for an update on the MythTV project. So here goes. First, concerning the issue with the Biostar motherboard: the Biostar motherboard was bad. The TV out on it was physicially inoperative. It did not include the TV out in the box, so I had to buy that and [...]
Sweet Digital Goodness
August 3rd, 2004, 2 Comments
Now that we have a HDTV unit and MythTV, it occured to me that there had to be a better way to get video to the HDTV than the standard S-Video cable I’d been using. And sure enough, there is. Our TV has a HDMI input, which is pin-compatible with a digital DVI output on [...]
We\’ve gone HDTV
July 23rd, 2004, 4 Comments
I’ve been talking a lot about MythTV lately, and here’s a tangential topic: we bought our first HDTV unit last weekend. It’s a widescreen 30″ CRT Philips 30PW8402 unit. We don’t yet have hi-def video sources (save for DVD), but I’ve still gotta say: wow. The picture is so much better than our Sony TV [...]
Quick MythTV update
July 17th, 2004, 3 Comments
My MythTV system is now mostly complete. My Biostar motherboard had a defective TV out, so it was sent in and now the TV out is working. I’ll post a more complete update in the next few days. In short, Biostar = bad, Albatron = good. Also, had a fun adventure stringing some cat5 cable [...]
