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Debugging Perl CGI scripts with Lighttpd

Permalink 2010-03-11 10:37, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English
I'm serving my Mythweb from Lighttpd, and while hacking it a bit I discovered that Lighttpd doesn't log Perl errors to the standard lighttpd error log. It appears that versions after 1.4.19 doesn't allow CGIs to write to the error file.I worked aroun… more »
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MythTV video streaming hack

Permalink 2010-03-10 15:58, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English, Mythtv
One of our MythTV frontends is a small Dell netbook with SDD and therefor not much disk space. Therefor I decided to hack MythTV to stream videos from the Mythweb Video interface. First off I had to enable MP4 streaming since I'm often transcoding to… more »
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Missing directory structure in Mythweb videos

Permalink 2010-03-05 08:31, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Universe/English, Mythtv
Somehow the Directory structure in the Mythweb videos section is empty using mythweb-0.22_p22763. Perhaps something is b0rked in my setup, so I had to hack it up a bit since the filename in videometadata doesn't overlap with my VideoStartupDir settin… more »
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B2evolution antispam list

Permalink 2010-03-01 08:39, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English, Opensource
Before I implemented comment captchas on this blog I was flodded with comment spam. Captchas helped a lot! Like removing 95+% of all comment spam, however some still gets through. Deleting a spam comment now and then have irritated me greatly, but until… more »
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Transcoding LATM packed HE-AAC audio with MythTV

Permalink 2010-02-23 09:01, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English, Opensource, 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 »
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