Bad things don't always come in threes. For my MythTV setup, four bad things all happened at once. First was that the governments of the Australian states that run Daylight Savings Time (DST) decided to jump on the energy-saving bandwagon and change the end-time for DST this year. Second was that the OzTivo folks changed … Continue reading MythTV fun and games
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I'm still having a good time with MythTV here... The Knoppmyth box I've been running has been pretty-much rock-solid. My plan to consolidate MythTV onto the Asterisk server just got a healthy kick-along too, with an announcement that the bogus DViCO card I bought last year finally has Linux driver support. Bad news came a couple of days … Continue reading MythTV ups and downs
No I did not buy an Apple TV -- but seeing them on the shelves at the local Hardly Normal has got me thinking about the dilemma-in-the-making that is my media centre dream. It all comes down to bandwidth, or lack of it to be specific. Of the two locations at the Crossed Wires campus that ideally … Continue reading My media and Apple TV
Spurred on by the successes of a couple of guys at work, I've been going through the process of setting up a Linux-based PVR.I've had a tuner card for some time, but my first attempts at getting it to work with MythTV under Gentoo a couple of years ago were less than successful. The final prompter … Continue reading MythTV
Okay, I'm an ungrateful whinger. MythTV so far has been an exercise in lost sleep and disappointment. Don't know if it's my TV card, the card's drivers, DVB (particularly HDTV) support in MythTV, or just the general stability of MythTV itself, but I'm far from happy.I've been holding off on buying a TV card for years, partly … Continue reading Experiences with MythTV – part 1
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