Morph3ous’s Weblog

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 the menus.

The integrated upnp server has been working perfectly (except for fast-forward, but I’ve had that problem with another upnp server too). It is nicer than my previous solution of using uShare and a renaming script to produce prettily-named symlinks to the video files. The integrated upnp server allows you to search by date recorded, title of the show, channel it was recorded from, … My old solution could only sort by title of show.

Good job Myth Team!

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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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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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 to everything working. (I made some other changes that I will not detail here at the moment; however, they did not resolve the problem. These are the only large changes that I have made in the past week.) The system has only been up for 7 hours 30 minutes with these changes; however, it has been rock solid. (more…)

Update: I have posted what may be a potential fix for this problem. Please see this post.

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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 capture cards stop capturing. When I check the output of dmesg I am greeted with many ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0×0000000b messages. (more…)

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 it cost more to build.

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