Archive for May, 2009

HDHomeRun Review Roundup

May 20th, 2009

For the moment I’ve come to the end of my HDHomeRun review, and overall I’ve been very impressed with what I can do with this little unit. I really love the fact I can watch freeview|HD on a wireless laptop with no need for a locally attached tuner.
It is always a pleasure to deal with […]

HDHomeRun Review Part 3

May 20th, 2009

If you are coming to this review fresh I highly recommend you catch up on the previous instalments.

Part 1 - HDHomeRun under OS-X
Part 2 - HDHomeRun on Linux with VLC

Here in part 3 we are trying to get the device to work with a recent build of MythTV. As Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) has recently been […]

VDPAU and MythTV 0.21 Update

May 3rd, 2009

There have been a number of fixes and releases since my initial batch of VDPAU testing, so it was time for an update.
The changes from the original test setup are as follows

 Nvidia 185.19 Video driver
mythtv 1:0.21.0+fixes-20453-openglvdpau-0ubuntu2

Jean-Yves has applied a number of fixed to his MythTV builds that have resolved many of the playback issues. A […]