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… Read more »
Category: 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »