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 »
Category: Multimedia
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »