plextor convertx and 2.6.22 kernels
Once again, I can take zero credit for this, especially since I’m not a kernel hacker. I can clean up the ebuilds when I get some time and get them… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
resistance is futile
You may or may not have heard this, but Paramount is re-releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD. This time, in one box set of the entire series. Here’s… Read more »
media-tv/freevo-1.7.2
Freevo got bumped in the portage tree recently to its latest upstream release. I didn’t realize this, but we were actually slightly behind their release schedule a bit. The main… Read more »
freevo and lirc
I should clarify on my last post about Freevo and MPlayer fighting over LIRC events, since after some more research, I figured out what is going on. Here’s the story…. Read more »
mplayer: display filename on osd with lirc
I’ve been playing with MPlayer, Freevo and LIRC most of all day today, and made some small progress. For one, I found a lovely nasty bug in the latest Freevo,… Read more »
config_video_ivtv=m
The 2.6.22 linux kernel was released today, and the exciting part is that IVTV is now included in the mainstream code. 🙂 The option is listed as “Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG… Read more »
quick mplayer tip: changing seek times
Here’s something I had to look up today that I don’t wanna dig around for anymore. The default settings for MPlayer to seek backwards and forwards is to jump 10… Read more »
dvds, cartoons, audio tracks and matroska
The bug has once again bitten me to get all my multimedia on demand, even though it is an enormous time-consuming and costly process. This is probably round three or… Read more »
chips, season one
I came up with this new system to buy TV shows on DVD that I might write about sometime. The basics of it is this — buy the set when… Read more »
skating
I’ve been putting off writing this post, but I can’t stand it any longer. In my brief vacation from computers in general, I had a lot more free time and… Read more »