12 April 08 - 15:01Xorg, DVI and the Belinea o.display 2_22" wide
I bought us a Belinea o.display 2_22" wide LCD Monitor a few weeks ago to replace a 15 inch LCD. We mainly use it to watch TV using MythTV. I chose this model as I could get it below 200,- Euro, it had both VGA and DVI inputs, it had a 1600x1050 resolution and 22 inches are a nice size to watch TV.
The VGA connection worked perfectly out of the box using Xorg 7.3 from openSuse 10.3. What did not work was the DVI connection. The maximum resolution I got out was 1280 and this looks awefull on LCD. I got discouraged by the few comments that floated arround in forums. All hinted that the problem seemed to be my nvidia 5100 based card or that I would need a dual link cable to get this setup working. But, as the Monitor came with a single link cable and it seemed to work on Windows XP I concluded that it had to be the drivers of the card.
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25 March 08 - 11:42MythTV does not schedule repeats using subtitles
I spent some hours trying to get my mythtv setup to schedule a few recordings that I had working using the subtitle matching feature to work again. Even tough the subtitles where exact matches it would not schedule any of them, and mark them as recorded. These showings where never recorded, so I got frustrated. What happens is, that if mythtv marks a showing wrong as Movie instead of TV Show and sets the ProgramID accordingly, then matching by subtitle never works. The only solution I could figure out was to reset the ProgramID for all the EPG data. This is done with the following SQL statement:
UPDATE `mythconverg`.`program` SET `programid` = ''
Even Better:
I found the reason why the above problem existed in my system. The XMLTV grabber I use (tvm2xml) often returns shows as movies. Mythfilldatabase then adds a unique programID to each show. This in turn leads to the above problem of not being able to record correctly. After I commented out the part of the script that adds categories to the XMLTV file everything is back to normal and I don't need to run the above SQL statement.
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04 January 08 - 17:22TVWish critic lists of movies
I am using TVWish to schedule an array of movies that I have always wanted to see. The following lists can be used directly with TVWish:
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31 December 07 - 12:24SVN MythTV RPMs for SuSE 10.3
Its been a while since I have posted updated source RPMs for MythTV. There have been a huge amount of changes from the 0.20.2 release and the current SVN version of MythTV. These changes required me to change the SPEC files. The biggest change, is that now I (you) need to compile MythTV and MythPlugins separately, as keeping the installation of MythTV while compiling MythPlungins was a pain. I have also had trouble tracking down all required packages, so be patient if your build does not work out of the box and send me a message with the error if it does not work as a comment to this post.
Since the 14th of January 2008 the MythTV SVN (rev 15450) contains a fully working implementation of recording several concurrent shows from one transport stream.
The following source RPMs have been successfully tested with the SVN version 15450.
To build your own current SVN release you need to download these files and compile them with rpmbuild. The following commands should be enough:
rpmbuild --rebuild mythtv-0.21-0.15450.svn.src.rpm
Then install the new files and run:
rpmbuild --rebuild mythplugins-0.21-0.15450.svn.src.rpm
Don't forget to uninstall libmyth-devel if you intend to rerun the base MythTV packages, as these will break the build.
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15 October 07 - 11:01Richard Dawkins acceptance speech of the Deschner Preis
Last Friday the 12th of October 2007 my wife and I where honored to be able to attend the award ceremony in which Prof.
Richard Dawkins received the
Denschner Preis for his lifelong work in promoting science, humanism and also atheism. I recorded most of the ceremony with my HandyCam and posted the following videos.
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28 September 07 - 18:53¿qué sentido bello tiene nuestra vida?
El padre Nacho, uno de los verdaderos amigos contados de la mano que tuvo mi padre, dio el siguiente Acto Religioso en la Iglesia San Mateo.
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24 September 07 - 21:23Ein offener Brief an meinen Vater
Ich bin Dankbar das es Dich gab.
Ohne Dich währe ich
sicherlich nur halb so gut gelungen wie es mir mein starkes Ego
heutzutage bestätigt. Ich kann mich immer noch gut erinnern wie es sich
als Kind angefühlt hat, dass mein Vater in meiner Nähe ist. Nicht nur
die Sicherheit, die sein Auftreten vermittelte, sondern auch der
körpernahe Ausdruck deiner Liebe für uns, Deine Kinder. Ich bin
aufgewachsen mit dem selbstverständlichen Gefühl, dass wir für Dich das
Wichtigste sind. Dieses Gefühl hat sich seit dem nie geändert.
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