went to the field near our house with Morgan and Cameron today.
A very nice and sunny day it was too. Almost February 2010.
3 days ago
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Sun.
went to the field near our house with Morgan and Cameron today.
A very nice and sunny day it was too. Almost February 2010.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Dads MythTV box.
About a year ago I built my dad a MythTV system out of an old PC. This is a dual tuner system, combined frontend/backend with a 200gb disk in I think. It's running MythTV 0.21 and he has been using it without much problem for the past 12 months or so.
Recently our TV system in the UK begun switchover from analogue UHF signal to digital UHF. This required several re-tunes of our TV's and of course I needed to visit to re-tune his mythtv box. I think the whole switch over process required 3 retunes before everything was straight.
Somewhere along the line it seems that one of the tuners was not tuned or tuning in right. The result is that he is now missing recordings and does not have the ability to record more than one program at a time. This causes him to miss recordings of Emmerdale and Coronation Street, shock, horror!
Not long after I set the system up for him I configured his router for remote VNC access and ssh access to his mythtv pc, so I could connect remotely for maintenance and updates. He is 82 and so I can't really expect him to find his way around the bash shell at his age can I?
All was fine until his router decided to go belly up. He called Plusnet and another one was sent, only this time it was a crappy single port Thompson 516 or something similar. I attempted to configure the firewall and port forwarding but I don't think I ever got it working. Tonight I managed to talk him through enabling remote access to the router so I could connect in and try and set the forwarding up.
Talk about watching paint dry! Each time I tried to navigate to another page took over 30 seconds! I did as much as I could and then I was kicked out! I think there is a 20 min idle timer in place on the remote access but I've no idea why it threw me out. Anyway I didn't have the patience to talk him back through enabling the remote access so I will pay him a visit and do what I should have done in the first place.
Recently our TV system in the UK begun switchover from analogue UHF signal to digital UHF. This required several re-tunes of our TV's and of course I needed to visit to re-tune his mythtv box. I think the whole switch over process required 3 retunes before everything was straight.
Somewhere along the line it seems that one of the tuners was not tuned or tuning in right. The result is that he is now missing recordings and does not have the ability to record more than one program at a time. This causes him to miss recordings of Emmerdale and Coronation Street, shock, horror!
Not long after I set the system up for him I configured his router for remote VNC access and ssh access to his mythtv pc, so I could connect remotely for maintenance and updates. He is 82 and so I can't really expect him to find his way around the bash shell at his age can I?
All was fine until his router decided to go belly up. He called Plusnet and another one was sent, only this time it was a crappy single port Thompson 516 or something similar. I attempted to configure the firewall and port forwarding but I don't think I ever got it working. Tonight I managed to talk him through enabling remote access to the router so I could connect in and try and set the forwarding up.
Talk about watching paint dry! Each time I tried to navigate to another page took over 30 seconds! I did as much as I could and then I was kicked out! I think there is a 20 min idle timer in place on the remote access but I've no idea why it threw me out. Anyway I didn't have the patience to talk him back through enabling the remote access so I will pay him a visit and do what I should have done in the first place.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Missing audio on H264 videos & Mythtv.
Recently I did a reinstall of my Mythtv frontend. Everything seemed ok apart from the lack of audio on
H.264 video clips which are taken with our Creative Vado HD camera.
This was working before the install so I'm not sure what I changed.
Anyway I posted a query on the mythtv-users list and a kind person called David Linville replied they had a similar problem which was fixed my changing the audio output device from ALSA:hdmi to something else.
After I had enabled all the ALSA devices in 'alsamixer', see first screenshot, I managed to get the audio working again! I took a quick photo of the settings for future reference and just in case it helps anybody else.
I'm using an Acer Revo 3610 for the frontend with Mythbuntu 9.10.
H.264 video clips which are taken with our Creative Vado HD camera.
This was working before the install so I'm not sure what I changed.
Anyway I posted a query on the mythtv-users list and a kind person called David Linville replied they had a similar problem which was fixed my changing the audio output device from ALSA:hdmi to something else.
After I had enabled all the ALSA devices in 'alsamixer', see first screenshot, I managed to get the audio working again! I took a quick photo of the settings for future reference and just in case it helps anybody else.
I'm using an Acer Revo 3610 for the frontend with Mythbuntu 9.10.
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