Month: March 2006

Going to give it another go this evening whilst watching back-to-back episodes of Wire in the Blood. It seems that Jeremy Teale, the guy behind TheHunter.ws, has updated the MythTV packages to fix some issues, and (hurrah!) enabled the XvMC compilation options! Must remember to send him a thankyou note if it works tonight… Still… Continue reading Myth 3

So last weekend I migrated Lou’s files to her “new” machine (a pants-wettingly fast PIII 1GHz) and repurposed the old machine (a Dell PIII-500 upgraded to a Celeron 1200) as a temporary Mythbox for testing the new hardware. Initially all went well. The ubuntu install did take ages…but that’s probably because I stupidly left the… Continue reading Mythtv, continued

Design changes soon to come for theanorak.org…but first, I’ve bitten the bullet and started buying parts for a Mythbox. I’ll probably use an older machine to start with, but the plan is to recycle my current desktop machine (Athlon XP1700) to give it a bit more power for transcoding and playback of non-MPEG2 content. With… Continue reading It’s a myth

Weird. I’m getting comment spam. What’s weird about it is a) this site doesn’t use WordPress, Blogger, or any of the usual weblog systems – it’s a super-amateurish POS I part stole, part wrote when first learning ASP then hacked bits onto b) There’s only been about 20 posts in the last year or so…and… Continue reading Comment spam