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,… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
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… Read more »
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 +… Read more »
gdm-themes reboot
There’s a new ebuild of gdm-themes in portage’s tree. The old ebuilds got booted for licensing issues, since we either didn’t know what license the themes were under or the… Read more »
more power!
I have the absolute worst luck when it comes to computer hardware. Most of the time the problem boils down to me not doing research and just buying whatever looks… Read more »
airport security
I’ve really enjoyed reading Bruce Scheiner’s blog this week on airport security, as he talks with a TSA administrator. Today was the final part, and I noticed something was missing… Read more »
it’s planet time
Well, cleaning up transcode was relatively easy (though I’m ignoring the minor dvd::rip bugs for now). I bumped the latest rc candidate for 1.0.4 and got a new CVS snapshot… Read more »
hd-dvd and blu-ray: no choices
I’ve started seeing these commercials on TV talking about next-generation DVDs and the formats they use, and one of the two (I think it’s Blu-Ray) says something like, “Make the… Read more »
media-sound/abcde
I mentioned a while ago after coming back from a month of broken computers, that I’d be focusing solely on one task at a time, to get it cleaned up… Read more »
planet summer
After a long delay on my part, Planet Summer of Code for Gentoo 2007 is back online. Only two hackers on there right now, but I’ll get them added as… Read more »