Archives for: February 2010
Transcoding LATM packed HE-AAC audio with MythTV
Since some of the new Danish digital TV channels are using the HE-AAC audio codec which is not widely supported (ie. on my Pop Corn Hour) I had to transcode the recordings before being able to watch it on my frontend.For this I use the following scri… more »
Gentoo KDE 4.4 upgrade a day after
Blockers, blockers blockers. All KDE 4.3.5 packages blocked the new 4.4 ebuilds. Some propose to remove 4.3 KDE entries from world and world_sets but it was not there. So I ended up creating a binary buildhost to minimize downtime for my laptop. Also wit… more »
MythTV on Gentoo part 3
Last week I finally solved my hardware problems with MythTV 0.22 with a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card and the Terratec T-5 double DVB-T receiver.After many reboots and tests with one or both receivers it turned out that the hardware was not at fault:-/… more »
Lenovo Fan error again
Saturday my trusted old Lenovo x61s started emitting strange fan sounds again and like last time it started failing to boot up with the "Fan error" error message. Not saying which fan was at fault, though I suspect it's the usual second fan found on some… more »