Category Archives: MythTV
web media frontend
I have always wanted to tweak my HTPC frontend quite a lot to add extra functionality, but the entry barrier to learning a GUI language has been way too high for me. I’ve had success though, in patching MythFrontend to … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Gentoo, Multimedia, MythTV, Programming
tromping around mythvideo code again
I’m still trying to decide where I wanna go with my media browser/frontend solution — if I’m going to write my own or keep hacking on MythVideo. I only have one really nagging issue left now, and that is that … Continue reading
upgrading myth, part two
I’ve almost finished the upgrade process for MythTV. Last night I ported all my patches towards 0.21 and so far everything is working great. This time I took it a step further and modified the code so it would look … Continue reading
upgrading myth
I started doing something last weekend I always swore I’d never do — upgrade MythTV on my Mini ITX. Normally, the process wouldn’t be hard, except that I’ve built a custom image that is running on a solid-state flash disk … Continue reading
media frontend
One thing I’ve been thinking about more and more lately, is that Myth is way overkill for what I’m using it for — effectively, just MythVideo and that’s it. The only thing I use it for is a GUI interface … Continue reading
pimp my mythvideo: coverfiles made simple
his being my third patch to fix some mythvideo nags, I’m actually starting to get comfortable going in there and trying to find this stuff. It’s still incredibly difficult to try and figure this out, since there’s little documentation and … Continue reading
weekend multimedia notes
I’ve been spending part of the weekend working out small annoyances in my myth setup, trying to get it inching closer to my “perfect” setup. I’m actually really close now, minor stuff is all that’s left. Here’s a few things … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, MPlayer, MythTV
playlist resume
I wrote about this a little bit a while back, wrt mplayer-resume, that I wanted to work on a way to resume playback from a playlist as well using MPlayer. Well, I finally sat down and figured it out last … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia, MythTV
pimp my mythvideo: another navigation patch
I’ve been working on a bug all night I noticed the other day that really annoys me in Myth, and I stayed up poking at the code trying to find a way around it. Actually, it’s a little weird how … Continue reading
pimp my mythvideo: navigation patch
Even though I can’t code in C++, or anything more hardcore than bash (and even that’s pretty sketchy), with a push in the right direction from a noble soul in #mythtv, I managed to mangle a patch together for MythVideo … Continue reading
