If I’m honest then I have to say that my family use our quad tuner Tivo a lot more than we use our seven tuner MythTV backend. Yeah, we record a lot of TV in our house. When Tivo announced their iPad streaming solution back at CES 2012, I was quietly thrilled. I’m tired of… Read More
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Elgato Game Capture HD Teardown
I noticed that Elgato recently launched their Game Capture HD USB2 HD encoder, Amazon link. I finally got around to ordering a unit and it arrived today, I opened the box and “it just fell out and broke open”. I think I may have voided my warranty. [lightbox title=”Elgato Game Capture HD Teardown” href=”/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2015.jpg”][/lightbox] Well,… Read More
HVR-900 R2 and PCTV 330e support upstream
After sitting in a public KernelLabs tree for almost 13 months, I finally got around to merging the Micronas DRX-D driver upstream, so now DVB support for the PCTV 330e and HVR-900 R2 are in the upstream kernel (for 2.6.40). So if you’ve been using the KernelLabs HG tree (which required considerable modification to work… Read More
Firewall changes
We’re improving the server firewall and re-organizing some services internally. Access to kernellabs.com could be intermittent today. Apologies in advance for any interruptions in service. – Steve
HVR-950q Quality Fixes
Last month we started doing some quality work on the analog side of the HVR-950q. This resulted in a series of fixes which can be found here: http://www.kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-950q-final We found various issues related to the comb filter, the power management, and a particularly nasty problem with the frame alignment that was causing very jerky video… Read More
Hardware troubles
My mythTV Backedend is an Intel quad core 2.4 with 4GB of G.Skill RAM. A vanilla GigaByte motherboard in a fairly nice looking case with 2TB of disk. I use a pair of HVR-2250’s to record digital cable signals and I’m generally pretty happy with the whole solution – as is my family. For the… Read More
More fun with lirc and remote controls
For those of you who were following my MythTV saga from a few posts ago, I am happy to report that as of tonight, all the buttons on my remote control now work from within MythTV. How much work required though really offers some more insight as to how badly broken usability in Linux is…. Read More
Status Updates…
I know things have been pretty quiet on the blog lately, so I wanted to give you all a quick status update on how various projects are going (for better or for worse). We are quite busy, but alot of the stuff we are working on is not currently publicly visible, and many people who… Read More
New analog signal generator
Our new (previously owned) analog signal generator arrived tonight (a Promax GV-698/11): [lightbox title=”New analog signal generator” href=”../../blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/CIMG0205.jpg”][/lightbox] Now, you might say “analog is dead” or “who cares about analog now that television has gone digital?” And the answer would seem to be “lots of people”. The reality is that as much as we like… Read More
LugRadio reborn?
If you have fond memories of the fabulous LugRadio podcast, like me, then you’ll be pleased to hear that my fellow country men Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge have re-formed for a twice weekly audio podcast called… A Shot of Jaq. It’s a no-nonsenese look at todays Linux issues in a short and snappy 10… Read More