For the time being the Firewire appears stable. Basically my understanding, is that it will work until it doesn't, then you must pray to the HD gods, sacrifice a small electronic appliance, do the river dance and pray again, to get it working. Then rinse and repeat as necessary. Im willing to live with that for now so I can tape from those channels. I already have it setup to mail me if any recordings fail from those channels;-)
Next, I was a little disappointed with the default ripper in Myth. The ripper itself is fine, but if I have something I have already ripped from DVD, but not transcoded, I cannot use the GUI to do this. So over the last few days I've been learning about VOBs, ripping and transcoding. I've created a script that does a vobcopy to copy over the english audio and video from the DVD, then does a dual-pass transcode(better compression and quality over a single pass transcode). Then automagically moves the final file into the correct directory. I have not figured out yet how to make MythVideo reread the directory from the command line. Right now I can only do that via the MythTV GUI, but that is OK for now.
The Streaming seems to be working great inside the house via wireless, though it does get jerky at times. So I will be working on that some as well. I also want to get MythGame up and running today so I can play some games on the console. It should be pretty close, but I havent had a chance to really sit down and hack at that yet. Hopefully sometime today I can get that going before my sister comes in this evening. I'll bet she'd love a good game of Ms PacMan! And it will be fun to help show off my 1ee7 h4ck3r skI11z.
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Sweet! What is your final preferred format of your ripped DVDs? Are you going DivX, mp4, mpg? .vob files are just .mpg files with a different extension, ya know. They are mpeg 2 video with (usually) a PCM audio stream in there.
How is she doing on the whole adjusting to it? Is she using it as her primary watching device? Are you ready to pull the plug on the DVR?
Someone here is selling a Harmony 670
for $60 or best offer
Right now Im going with xvid, which looks pretty good, but Im also seriously considering Matroska, which is Open Source(like xvid).
As for the wife, I just got her to understand this Am that all she has to do to get back to the DVR is to click "Video Source" after hitting the TV button. Which she knows how to do(for the DVD) player, but refused to listen to me about;-) So things are moving at a dead snails pace! but hey I didnt marry her for her technological prowness now did I?! Shes getting warmed up to the idea. Last night was the first time we actually sat down together and watched something without commercials. I had shown her, but we hadn't really watched anything. After it returned from one of the breaks I asked if she missed the commerical, she was like huh, what, oh really, thats GREAT! So while the snail is looking really lethargic, he's not dead ;-) So Im hopeful, I've got tons of stuff taped including lots of gardening, I think I should go down and show her that right now!
Well, there's the problem! You're giving her a safety net! Pull the plug on the DVR and force the PC to be the one! :) Yeah, and you'll be sleeping on the couch for a month!
Are you interested in that Harmony remote???
and yeah, go ahead and grab that remote for me!
dude!
http://ghostlobster.blogspot.com/2007/04/possible-new-remote.html
Goig for approval tomorrow. Everything's in place today.
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