I just finished upgrading my MythTv/printing/data/everything server from version 9.04 of Ubuntu to 9.10. For the first time, I tried using the Software Update program to upgrade my entire system, and it went surprisingly well. Here are some of the highlights; hopefully they will help a few other people. MythTv The OS upgrade included an… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
I apologize in advance for the corny, rhyming title I’ve been using an Asus EEE PC 900 netbook for about a year now, and have used it mostly for light word processing and web browsing. I also have a MythTV server running in my basement on an old Duron-based system. I can do almost all… [Read more…]
November 17, 2009
It’s unlike me to upgrade my systems very often since it can take so much time, but I was moved recently to upgrade both my “server” (to Ubuntu 9.04) and my EEE PC 900 (to Easy Peasy 1.5). In general, I’m very impressed with how much better Linux-on-the-desktop gets every 6 months, and I look… [Read more…]
April 2, 2008
As I’ve mentioned in some of my earlier articles, you really don’t need a very powerful media server if you using the MediaMVP media extender with MVPMC firmware. For example, I’m able to use my MediaMVP to watch MythTv movies, Xvid AVI’s, and home movie’s stored as MPEG’s without putting much of a load on… [Read more…]
March 23, 2008
I noodled around with my MVP/MVPMC setup a little bit more, and discovered the following: Live-TV with my MythTV backend actually works pretty well. I just needed to fix my timezone settings. VLC transcoding, which allows me to view Xvid AVI’s using MVP, is a pretty CPU-intensive process. The default video quality level (labled “DVD”)… [Read more…]
March 22, 2008
Well, I got the MVP last Thursday night, and it’s pretty freakin’ sweet. Here’s my impressions so far: It was easier to set up than I thought it would be, even though I’m also using MVP Media Center (MVPMC) instead of the stock software provided by Hauppauge. The video quality is very good in my… [Read more…]
March 19, 2008
Well, I finally purchased a MediaMVP yesterday from Newegg. If you haven’t seen one of these before, it’s basically a little box that streams videos and music from a networked server to your television. I’m hoping to use it to do the following: Play back recordings that I have stored within my MythTv system Pause… [Read more…]
December 1, 2009
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