31 May 10 - 09:20A fair amout of Willi updates
Update: New version available.
(thumbnail) Being sick with the flu all weekend I spend some time polishing the Willi theme. I have added self made icons for audio properties (Stereo, surround, etc) and for the video properties (HD, 720p, etc.). The theme now shows an icon in the theme selection screen. Arrows that show the direction the user can choose have also been added. I hope they are intuitive. All plugins are still not themed, but I started with MythVideo and only in the Browser view.
I still have not been able to find out how you can let Kate in KDE4.3 autoindent XML files. I did though find a neat little tool called xmlindent that does the trick from the console.
Get the new version here.
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27 May 10 - 22:51Update for Willi Theme
Update: New version available.
I continued working on the Willi theme today. I am learning quiet a few new tricks that might lead me to redo some parts of this theme differently. For now at least the settings screens based on Qt are working again. I have added a lot of information to the Watched Recordings screen to please about anyone. The theme still misses all plugins and scheduling screens. Get the new theme here.
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26 May 10 - 17:48How to record all shows of a type in MythTV
I love documentaries. I try to record as many as I can for those rainy / sick days. But selecting them all manually would be a tedious task. Thats why I use a custom recording rule in MythTV. This is the code I use:
(program.description LIKE '%Dokumentation%' OR program.description LIKE '%Dokumentarfilm%')
AND (channel.callsign LIKE '3sat' OR channel.callsign LIKE 'arte')
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Eisenbahn%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%kulinarisch%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Nachbarn%'
AND program.title NOT LIKE '%Eurovision%'
AND program.title NOT LIKE '%Gleis%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Tierdokumentation%'
The first parenthesis matches the description of all shows for the words that fairly often pinpoint to a documentation. The second parenthesis define the channels I know feature good documentaries. Lastly, after the parenthesis I define all the words that definitely point to something I do not want to record.
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11 May 10 - 19:02MythTV 0.23 finally available
As of the 10th of May 2010 a new version of MythTV is
available. The BandO Theme has been developed for this version, but has not reached 100% completion even though I use it daily.
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06 May 10 - 19:11Defragment MythTV server runing XFS
I had been brought up with the impression, that you do not need to defragment a linux file system. In most cases this is true, but just by chance I read this article and have since changed my mind. I use XFS for both my hard drives that host MythTV recordings. I assume, that XFS can not guess the size of a recording and thus can not reserve that space on the hard drive in advance. This thus leads to higher fragmentation compared to just copying files from another source. My system had recordings that where cut into more than 5.000 chunks. By typing
xfs_bmap -v /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/*
you get a pretty good overview of how fragmented your MythTV recordings are. As a rule of thumb, the longer the list after the filename, the higher is your fragmentation. All you need to do to defragment your file system is type:
xfs_fsr
as root and wait two hours (default length). It will automatically defragment all your XFS file systems, no need to tell it what devices. To get six hours of defragmentation run:
xfs_fsr -t 21600
You should notice some improvements, especially when copying your files. If you want to know how fragmented your drive is just type:
xfs_db -r /dev/sdc1 -c frag
actual 94088, ideal 2790, fragmentation factor 97.03%
You see, my drive was 97% fragmented!
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04 May 10 - 19:54Getting LIRC to comile with the packages from kernel-ppa
I have the bad habit of liking to try new features in all software I use. That also includes the Linux kernel. To get daily updated kernel packages for ubuntu, I use the packages from kernel-ppa. But I have run into the issue, that the kernel modules from the main LIRC package do not compile with these kernel packages. I searched for a solution and found it. It seems, that the autoconf.h file is not placed in the right directory by default. This means we need to make a copy in the right directory for it to work. The following is an example I used last night.
sudo cp /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634rc5-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.34-020634rc5-generic/include/linux/autoconf.h
All you need to do is change "linux-headers-2.6.34-020634rc5-generic" to whatever kernel packages you downloaded from the kernel-ppa and the copied file should work for you.
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