letterbox movies with mplayer
Non-anamorphic widescreen movies can be a bit of a pain to watch on a widescreen monitor or TV these days. I don’t have very many of them myself, but one… Read more »
Category: Multimedia
mplayer and matroska metadata, part two
Man, what a week it has been. I have been plugging away at a lot of stuff, and the bug to get my whole media setup tweaked even more has… Read more »
mplayer and matroska metadata
I’ve been playing with Matroska in general a lot more, seeing what I can do, and in the past week and a half, I’ve found some really cool things. I’m… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
mplayer and vdpau in portage
I was hoping to write a lengthy post about VDPAU support for MPlayer in the portage tree, but since my harddrive crashed this week and I’m still recovering from that,… Read more »
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… Read more »
the motherboard of my dreams … hopefully
After much waiting and wrangling over which one to get, I have finally bought a new Mini ITX motherboard to use for my mythfrontend. I’ve been planning to get a… Read more »
if it ain’t broke …
I have an old saying I like to use now and then, which has always seemed particularly relevant to Gentoo. “If it ain’t broke, tweak it.” Of course, now, I’m… Read more »
universal
For some reason, I have, by far, the worst issues with any DVDs from Universal Studios when it comes to playback. I have no idea how they author their DVDs,… Read more »