dual tuner mythtv and fixes
I made some modifications to my mythtv setup - just some minor updates. The ease of the apt-get rpm packaging management system is amazing. In just a few simple commands, you can completely update your system. I’m now running the 2.6.9-1.11 kernel on the mythtv-server, the latest nvidia drivers (though, they’re licensed now, and thus “taint the kernel” by adding non-obtainable source binaries to an otherwise open-source linux system), the newest ivtv drivers (tv tuner card), and lircd (remote control drivers). I also finally setup both Hauppauge 350 tv tuner cards on the server, and went ahead and ran CAT6 cable (little overkill, I know) from the server to the backend, to replace this Wireless G bridge. Streaming video over Wireless was just too flaky. Needless to say, I’m watching Ghost in the Shell now on the projector on the wall in the bedroom, and it is absolutely flawless over ethernet! No skipping or stuttering at all!
January 10th, 2005 21:31
Looks like I may have bamboozled something when updating lircd (the remote control daemon). After adding the second Hauppauge card, and removing all the extra command-line options to the ivtv driver, I got a bit too fiesty and commented lircd out. A quick re-install from apt helped me isolate this problem. Ugh, though, I hate that I used the old windows trick of removing and re-installing. Not the linux way, for sure. After a re-install, a quick:
/sbin/chkconfig –level 345 lircd on
fired it up with my .lircrc settings. Rock on!