About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine gave me a computer he was no longer using. I went ahead and bought a Hauppauge PVR-350 TV tuner card with onboard MPEG-2 encoding and decoding with the hopes of turning the computer into a nice PVR. Tonight marks the third time (at least) that I have tried to set up this program. I tried once using KnoppMyth, a Linux distribution based on Knoppix (which is based on Debian) that is meant to simplify the task of setting up MythTV (which is notoriously difficult). I got to, I don’t know, 75% perhaps and then ran into some snags and gave up for awhile. Some time later, I tried installing Ubuntu and then installing MythTV on top of that. I got to probably 90% and then hit snags, got sick of working on it, and gave up. Over the weekend, I decided I would try installing it again. So, today I downloaded the installation ISO for Mythbuntu. I’m in the process of trying to get everything working. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
That to which I am listening
- Glowworm – Into the Woods
- Joy Wants Eternity – For We Had No Road
- Gifts From Enola – with the tides in hindsight
- Signal Hill – Luna Park
- The Six Parts Seven – A Blueprint of Something Never Finished
- Saxon Shore – This Place
- Caspian – The Dove
- Kyte – Boundaries
- The American Dollar – Anything You Synthesize
- Codes In The Clouds – Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
Entries from my photoblog
- Back Bay November 13, 2009
- Construction November 11, 2009
- I'm keeping an eye on you October 31, 2009
- Angel October 21, 2009
- On Fire September 18, 2009
