Monthly Archives: September 2006
mythtv 0.20 public service announcement
MythTV 0.20 was released today. Yay. There’s a whole lotta fixes, but the one I like the most is the fading menus. Anyway, I posted this on the Gentoo forums, but it’s worth repeating: *BACKUP* your mythconverg database before upgrading. … Continue reading
couldn't have said it better myself
Now, I’m not one to rail on how horrible Microsoft Windows is. In my opinion, it’s just generally very difficult to be productive on it for a number of reasons — most annoying to me is how it assumes you … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
steve's mini mythtv magical quest
Okay, well I’ve decided to try something completely new and different — I’m going to do a lot of research, read up on all the relevant subjects, and then use my mad consumer skillz and make some planned purchases. How … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Hardware, Multimedia, MythTV
even more media woes
Aaaaaaaaaaaagh. My latest adventure into trying to find my perfect hardware multimedia system has failed once again. What a pain in the booty. I won’t even go into what I tried this time because I’ve already embarrased myself enough. Someone … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Multimedia
multiple myth backends
So what do you do when you have multiple TV tuners? You setup mutiple myth backends, too! I actually had no idea you could even do this until yesterday, but apparently you can have slave backends for mythtv, not just … Continue reading
more tv tuners
I was curious how well the PCHDTV cards were coming along, so I bought one of the 5500 models the other day. I got bored with it after I couldn’t get it working after 20 minutes without reading any documentation, … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, IVTV, Multimedia
