Category Archives: Computing

Kernel Patch for Xbox Live Camera on Linux

Posted on April 13, 2012 by james

I’ve done some more work on getting the Xbox Live camera to work properly on Linux this evening and have submitted a patch to the development mailing list. I don’t know if it will get included in some future driver … Continue reading →

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SPC900 Camera on Linux

Posted on April 13, 2012 by james

Because of the problems I’ve been having with the Xbox Live camera with my SheevaPlug I decided to give one of my SPC900 cameras a try. I don’t really want to use these as I had another purpose in mind, … Continue reading →

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Xbox Live Camera on Linux

Posted on April 13, 2012 by james

I’ve been tempted to build a couple of camera projects recently, the first being a camera to capture the images to create an Analemma, which shows the path of the sun through the sky at a fixed time (usually at … Continue reading →

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MythTV Freeview Channel Scan

Posted on January 13, 2012 by james

Despite a few rearrangements of the channels on our local transmitter I’ve been putting off rescanning the channels for some time as last time I tried it broke things horribly. Nothing was due to record for a few hours yesterday … Continue reading →

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Google Completely Loses the Plot

Posted on October 11, 2011 by james

Over the last couple of days I’ve been receiving frequent emails containing the tedious witterings of someone I’m barely acquainted with, courtesy of Google+. I have never told Google I wish to receive email from Google+, so at what point … Continue reading →

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MythTV/FFmpeg: Part 3

Posted on September 29, 2011 by james

Well, I finally realised that there’s a 0.24 fixes tree for nuvexport that isn’t part of the main MythTV 0.24 fixes tree, so I downloaded that having read on the mailing list that it should work with the MythTV 0.24 … Continue reading →

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MythTV/FFmpeg: Part 2

Posted on September 28, 2011 by james

Enabling mp3 encoding in the bundled version of ffmpeg was merely a case of adding –enable-libmp3lame to the configure command for the entire package. nuvexport-xvid now runs to completion. Unfortunately the output looks all wrong, so I’m back to the … Continue reading →

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Trials and Tribulations with MythTV and FFmpeg

Posted on September 27, 2011 by james

I’m running MythTV 0.24.1 at the moment with quite a few MythBuntu and other front ends. I’m running out of disk for recordings and decided to archive a few off to release some space which I’ve done with previous versions … Continue reading →

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8GB Memory Upgrade for HP Proliant Microserver

Posted on September 19, 2011 by james

I decided to upgrade the server to 8GB RAM (its default configuration is 1GB). The motherboard has two RAM sockets, so I purchased a pair of 4GB RAM sticks to put in. It’s not a difficult job, only taking ten … Continue reading →

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Google Sketchup on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on September 13, 2011 by james

For designing the observatory I really needed something a bit more “touchy-feely” than pencil and paper — my usual method of designing bits and pieces I build. A few people had mentioned Google Sketchup, but it’s only available for Windows … Continue reading →

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