Monthly Archives: August 2007
planet venus cleanup
I’ve cleaned up the Planet Larry feed powered by Planet Venus quite a bit, so it should look exactly as it is when we switch over to that backend instead. I plan on doing that pretty soon in fact, like, … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
ivtv docs in progress
Believe it or not, I love writing documentation. I dunno why. One thing I enjoy about it is taking programs that have lots of options and breaking it down into clear and concise noob-friendly wording. The main reason for that … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, IVTV, Multimedia
media-video/mplayer versioning scheme reboot
Don’t panic, but portage is about to tell you to downgrade your MPlayer. It’s a boring story as to why, but suffice it to say the versioning scheme is fixed now, and you can “downgrade” if you want to or … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
coming soon: one planet admin
I know people have heard me promise repeatedly over a span of quite a few months that I’ll get Planet Larry cleaned up of its various issues, but this time I have some actual news. I finally started working on … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
ivtv modules
Just a quick note — if you are using media-tv/ivtv, be sure to load your I2C and Video4Linux drivers as modules in the kernel, or they will most likely not work. I’ve known about that for a long time, so … Continue reading
dvd ripping notes
I’m working on bend right now, and while I’m poking through the source code and fixing bugs, I’m finding small notes about stuff. I figured some of it might be worth repeating. Besides, I’m waiting for Super Friends to rip. … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia
shameless gpnl plug
While packages.gentoo.org is down, I don’t enjoy it more than anyone else, but if you are really craving to browse the portage tree through a website, might I offer up GPNL as an alternative. It’s definitely not as sexy, it’s … Continue reading
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mplayer + nvidia + xvmc
Another small mplayer tip, that I had to google for. When building MPlayer with XvMC support, so that it will use the video card’s hardware for MPEG2 decoding (and therefore, less CPU load on your box), mplayer -vo xvmc alone … Continue reading
techdirt gets it
I love reading Techdirt. It’s good, editorial summaries of the news that’s going on in technology news. I just saw this in my RSS feed, their take on why full feeds in RSS is a *good thing*. It is. Because … Continue reading
one htpc, coming right up
So, how long does it take to build an HTPC with Gentoo, from scratch? How about, Gentoo + LVM2 + vesafb + bootsplash + nvidia + LIRC + mplayer + XvMC + IVTV + MythTV? All in all, about eight … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, IVTV, Multimedia, MythTV
