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October 2007Mythtv
On 06/10/07 at 15:30 cobaltfish wrote:
Over the last couple of weeks I've got myself a small stack of components and started to build myself a media pc. I picked up a nice small case-about the size of the average set top box, a micro atx motherboard and processor, and all the trappings. I've put into it to get tv, a Hauppauge winTV nova-T pci card (it has space for only one card-pci or pci-express) a laptop sized slot loading dvd-rw drive and also attached a usb soundcard, to ensure I get a digital output for my speakers.
I've now got kubuntu 7.04 installed and have myth able to pick up tv, although the digital itv signal here seems no-existant. I'm now working with getting the remote control to work as I want. Alsa is outputting sound, and the usb sound is now set as the default soundcard, however with myth running, I dont have control over its volume via alsa.
The kernel that I'm running at the moment (Kernel 2.6.20-16 ) has ir_common running, which interfers with lirc which is what many use to configure their remote control. Rather than reconfiguring the kernel to exclude ir_common I am working on setting up the appropriate keymaps so that the remote control keys do the appropriate functions in the program. So far I have only mapped the power button to the escape key for exiting the myth frontend, but will work on more, now I know how to do it. I used xev to display the keycodes of the pressed buttons and created a .Xmodmap file in ~/ to map it to a function.
More will be posted, if I ever remember to post stuff up here!
Travel
On 06/10/07 at 15:19 cobaltfish wrote:
I've now taken most of my annual Holiday. One week was my normal week of camp in norfolk, and was the weather bad! Not so bad as the year before, as the huge stakes that hold the side of the marquee down didnt spend the week trying to pull out of the ground, but it did rain atleast once on every day. But we all survived, and a large heater was used in the main marquee to keep peoples clothes dry and have somewhere warm to disappear to.
Since august, I've also been over to Germany. I flew into Lubek airport (or Hamburg if you believe ryanair! I stayed the week in a fairly cheep hotel in Hamburg. I got there and asked for the reservation I'd made in my best (school based) german, and got the reply back that there had been a problem of water in the rooms, and I was now in a hotel a few doors up the street. I took me a moment to understand, and by the time I did, they offered to speak in english. But I did try and use german :-)
The week before last, I took a visit to a colo facility on Isle of Man, and set up a stack of gear for my company. My ears wear aching after several days of being blasted by air-con, and my legs from standing about configuring servers. But we got all the kit configured so at the minimum, we can access them from the main office to finish the configuration.
Mythtv
On 06/10/07 at 14:30 cobaltfish wrote:
Over the last couple of weeks I've got myself a small stack of components and started to build myself a media pc. I picked up a nice small case-about the size of the average set top box, a micro atx motherboard and processor, and all the trappings. I've put into it to get tv, a Hauppauge winTV nova-T pci card (it has space for only one card-pci or pci-express) a laptop sized slot loading dvd-rw drive and also attached a usb soundcard, to ensure I get a digital output for my speakers.
I've now got kubuntu 7.04 installed and have myth able to pick up tv, although the digital itv signal here seems no-existant. I'm now working with getting the remote control to work as I want. Alsa is outputting sound, and the usb sound is now set as the default soundcard, however with myth running, I dont have control over its volume via alsa.
The kernel that I'm running at the moment (Kernel 2.6.20-16 ) has ir_common running, which interfers with lirc which is what many use to configure their remote control. Rather than reconfiguring the kernel to exclude ir_common I am working on setting up the appropriate keymaps so that the remote control keys do the appropriate functions in the program. So far I have only mapped the power button to the escape key for exiting the myth frontend, but will work on more, now I know how to do it. I used xev to display the keycodes of the pressed buttons and created a .Xmodmap file in ~/ to map it to a function.
More will be posted, if I ever remember to post stuff up here!
Travel
On 06/10/07 at 14:19 cobaltfish wrote:
I've now taken most of my annual Holiday. One week was my normal week of camp in norfolk, and was the weather bad! Not so bad as the year before, as the huge stakes that hold the side of the marquee down didnt spend the week trying to pull out of the ground, but it did rain atleast once on every day. But we all survived, and a large heater was used in the main marquee to keep peoples clothes dry and have somewhere warm to disappear to.
Since august, I've also been over to Germany. I flew into Lubek airport (or Hamburg if you believe ryanair! I stayed the week in a fairly cheep hotel in Hamburg. I got there and asked for the reservation I'd made in my best (school based) german, and got the reply back that there had been a problem of water in the rooms, and I was now in a hotel a few doors up the street. I took me a moment to understand, and by the time I did, they offered to speak in english. But I did try and use german :-)
The week before last, I took a visit to a colo facility on Isle of Man, and set up a stack of gear for my company. My ears wear aching after several days of being blasted by air-con, and my legs from standing about configuring servers. But we got all the kit configured so at the minimum, we can access them from the main office to finish the configuration.
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