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Mythical Leaps and Bounds
Another week has gone by and a few more hours of sleep have been grabbed at various intervals. In the intervening time, work has continued on the interminable odyssey that is the MythTV box. The major breakthrough came earlier this … Continue reading
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More Problems Fixed
Picture quality on the MythTV is now a lot better. I had been ignoring the transcoder configuration options of the front-end, because my tuner cards, PVR-350 cards, do the MPEG2 encoding in hardware. However, it tuns out that the transcoder … Continue reading
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One small step for Eloïse
Eloïse took her first tottering steps today. For several weeks, she’d been pulling herself to her feer and staggering a step or two before falling down again, but today she got up and just walked across the room. Similar amazing … Continue reading
Stuck
I’ve made a lot of progress on the MythTV box on the last few days. Firstly, I didn’t trust the SCART to S-Video/2 x RCA cable that I’d bought, suspecting that it may be wired to have SCART be the … Continue reading
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Finally, It Works
Since I got back into the MythTV project a few days ago, I’ve scarcely come up for air. It’s been a long, winding and especially rocky road, but we’re finally reaping some of the fruits of those labours. The good … Continue reading
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