Archive for March, 2008
MythTVNews.com - now without MythTV News… :-(
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It had to happen. I’m a one man gang here, and so when I go on vacation, so does this blog. This past week I went skiing with my family in Norway. Fantastic vacation and great fun teaching the kids [...]
Best power supply for your MythTV box
SilentPCReview.com just crowned a new PSU king. It is the Enermax Modu82+ 625W.
As you might have guessed, it is 625 watts and it is the least noisy power supply they have tested yet, if you ignore the passively cooled ones. It is also available as 525 and 425 watts.
Here is a short bit from the [...]
Pioneer to stop producing plasmas?
It sounds like it is almost certain that Pioneer will stop producing Plasmas and instead buy them elsewhere.
Since Pioneer plasmas are among the best, this is quite a pity.
Read all the details here, here and here.
Mythbuntu 8.04 Alpha 3 is available
The changes since Alpha 2:
Lots of bug fixes across the board in Ubiquity and Mythbuntu Control Centre.
The installer menu has been merged with the Ubuntu installer menu. This lets you boot right into the installer.
Totem can speak MythTV now for playback.
New version of XMLTV
New MythTV checkouts (basically latest 0.21-fixes)
Be aware:
“It is very important to note [...]
LinuxMCE 0710 beta4 is out
The 0710 release was originally intended to be out in November ‘07, but now it seems like they are targeting the release of MythTV 0.21.
Latest changes:
Added subtitles support in Xine_Player
Latest fixes for MythTV
Ripped DVDs with ISO extension now have DVD menu available
Fix installation of nvidia drivers when installing without internet
Full changelog here.
Download it here.
Autodetecting 4:3 zoom aspect ratio for MythTV
I recently bought myself a nice LCD TV, which of course has a 16:9 aspect ratio. My signal is still analog SD and so I find myself constantly changing the aspect ratio manually of the show I am watching.
Typically the reason is that a 16:9 movie is actually send out with black bars on the [...]