{"id":230,"date":"2008-05-19T02:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2008-05-19T02:37:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T08:37:27","slug":"tv-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/230","title":{"rendered":"TV all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/ww\/v\/index.jsp?vgnextoid=55c8ec70fce8f010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&#038;locale=en-US\">one of my hard drives<\/a> had died during the night. Luckily it was just holding backup data that was waiting to be burned to DVD-RW, so it was not a huge loss. But annoying nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>While I was in there replacing that, I figured I&#8217;d swap my TV card into that machine too, since the one that it was running in is failing to boot for reasons I don&#8217;t quite understand (it&#8217;s a combination of my fault and hardware bugs, I think). That required getting the card running under Linux.<\/p>\n<p>It was only recently that my card (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauppauge.com\/pages\/products\/data_hvr1600.html\">Hauppauge HVR-1600<\/a>) got <a href=\"http:\/\/ivtvdriver.org\/index.php\/Cx18\">a Linux driver<\/a>, so I was waiting for a while before I jumped over. But, given the confluence of annoying computer failures, I took the dive today.<\/p>\n<p>It took several hours to <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxtv.org\/hg\/v4l-dvb\/\">hunt up code<\/a>, compile kernel modules, install TV software, configure stuff, etc. Not really any longer than under Windows, so that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I have it running, oh, man, am I glad I made the switch. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/\">MythTV<\/a> is pretty awesome. The coolest thing for me is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/wiki\/index.php\/MythWeb\">MythWeb<\/a>, the web-based management plugin. Since I don&#8217;t do the using-the-remote watching-from-across-the-room thing, I really (really!) don&#8217;t like UIs designed for that mode. MythWeb instead gives a nice, compact, fast, easy to use way to browse listings, set up recordings, and get on with my life. Later I&#8217;ll just play my MPEGs out of a Samba share with VLC, totally avoiding the wacky UI stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning I learned that one of my hard drives had died during the night. Luckily it was just holding backup data that was waiting to be burned to DVD-RW, so it was not a huge loss. But annoying nonetheless. While I was in there replacing that, I figured I&#8217;d swap my TV card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}