Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Kobski
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This version will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 and the new features are:
Support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback, as well as integration with MPlayer
1080p on the nVidia graphics platform
Better integration with MythTV
The inclusion of VDR, popular with the European […]
Filed under: LinuxMCE, MPlayer, MythTV, NVIDIA, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Kobski
Mythbuntu was released just last week (25th of October) and has already been downloaded more than 20000 times according to this post.
That is quite a lot. But I quess it makes sense… Ubuntu + MythTV, what is not to love…?
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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Kobski
The book “Practical MythTV” is currently available at a discount at Bookpool for $14.95.
The book has been getting some good reviews.
[Via Ramblings]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Kobski
As expected it was announced today that the first stable version of Mythbuntu has been released. As you may know it is based on Ubuntu 7.10 which was released last week.
The highlight features of this release are:
Frontend can be run from the live CD
Complete installations(Backend, Frontend, Backend/Frontend, etc)
Xfce4 Desktop Environment
Easily upgrade from Ubuntu Gutsy to […]
Filed under: Hardware, MythTV, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Kobski
I ran across this thread on mythtv-users mailing list the other day. It discusses various ways to avoid SSH attacks. If you have this blocked by your firewall, then it is not for you, but many people like to have a way to remotely access their server.
The thread references this page which has a very […]
Filed under: Howto, Linux, MythTV | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Kobski
Not a lot of interesting stuff for MythTV users, except maybe for this one:
Improved modesetting support on Quadro FX 370, Quadro FX 570, Quadro FX 1700, Quadro NVS 320M, Quadro FX 570M, Quadro FX 1600M, Quadro NVS 290, Quadro NVS 140M, Quadro NVS 130M, Quadro NVS 135M, and Quadro FX 360M
The release note and download […]
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Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Kobski
Right on schedule. You can read the announcement here.
Mythbuntu will supposedly be released “early next week“.
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Kobski
It is not very often that we see releases from the MPlayer team, but they have just announced one, or well… a release candidate…
There are lots and lots of changes, many of which come with FFmpeg.
Real RTSP authentication
H.264 decoding speedup
MPEG-1/2 speedups
The complete changelog is here.
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Kobski
To me the audio driver is something which either works, or it doesn’t.
But if you feel different about this or if you have an issue with your sound chip, then check out the changelog for ALSA 1.0.15 to see if it has been fixed.
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Kobski
Justin Hornsby has moved his high quality themes for MythTV to a new website named mythtvthemes.co.uk. On the page you will find all the themes from Justin, such as ProjectGrayhem, Blootube and neon-wide. And you will find links to those other themes deemed worthy.
The themes on the page are for MythTV 0.20.2 and possibly older, […]
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