transcoding cartoons
I’ve been very cautious about posting any progress reports about my transcoding adventures, because the arguments I use keep changing while I test things. In fact, I deleted the last… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
Notes: variable framerate
I’m having the hardest time getting things to work right with encoding variable framerate DVDs, so I’m going to do a braindump on this page and update it as I… Read more »
‘the incredible hulk’ and other extreme ownage
It’s time for another DVD release update. Well, at least of the ones that I’m interested in. 🙂 Season one of The Incredible Hulk came out today, and I’m soooo… Read more »
fun with mplayer: on-screen display
Yes, it’s time for another exciting episode of “Will Steve Ever Stop Tweaking?” I think we all know the answer to that one by now. Anyway, now that my main… Read more »
ask, and ye shall receive
One of my biggest beefs about media players (if you haven’t noticed yet) is the lack of support for my favorite media wrapper, Matroska. If you don’t know what that… Read more »
new problems gone, old problems back
Will the mythtv saga ever end? Will Steve ever be happy? Isn’t that way too many Twinkies in your cupboard? In answer to all three … probably not. I have… Read more »
gentoo + mythtv: just the way I like it
I was just thinking to myself about all the custom tweaks and odd settings I’m using to run MythTV, and it occurs to me that it’s a miracle the thing… Read more »
success at last
Well, I finally got MythTV working again. And, once again, it was user error. Once I actually calmed down enough to think about it rationally (versus my previous attempts at… Read more »
mythv: a love-hate-hate-hate-hate-hate-hate-love relationship
This hasn’t been my week. I finally figured out the problem with MythTV last night — it is complaining that my recordings are 48000khz, and it wants to send them… Read more »
mixbox
I never did post an update on the story with my Mini-ITX. Mostly because I’m a moron. It turns out I got the wrong motherboard completely, and the onboard video… Read more »