MythTV

Happily impressed with Myth 0.20

I’m not going to spend too much time on this post. Maybe in the near future. I just spent a lot of time trying to analyze the National Surveillance Act of 2006. I am impressed so far. After switching MythTV over to using OpenGL I am greeted with a nice fade-in and fade-out on...

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MythTV 0.20 has been released!

This release has one feature that I have been longing for, an internal UPnP server. I have been using uShare, the MythRename.pl script, and a a few cron jobs to pipe the PVR content to my D-Link DSM-320. Thread on the progress of the MythTV 0.20 Ebuild

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IVTV DMA error fix? Patch from Author

Hans Verkuil, the developer behind ivtv, thinks that he may have found the source of the DMA problems that some have been experiencing. From the mailing list:

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Solution to IVTV drivers: ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0x0000000b ?

Update: The author of IVTV has just released a patch that may resolve these problems once and for all I think that I may have found a solution to this problem. The problem is detailed in this post. I made 3 recent changes to my system, and I am not sure which has led...

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IVTV drivers: ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0x0000000b

Update: I have posted what may be a potential fix for this problem. Please see this post. —- I have posted some information here: http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/48 I am putting this up because I’d like to allow anyone from the IVTV bug posting to contact me. The problem is that after a period of time my...

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MythTV

I have long wanted to build myself a PVR. I thought that it would be nice to be able to control what I watch, and when I watch it. Commercial alternatives are restricting their features too much for my tastes. I wanted a system that would give me full control over everything, even if...

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