http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv MythTV News and Information for New Zealand Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:21:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/05/20/hdhomerun-review-roundup/ 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 ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/05/20/hdhomerun-review-part-3/ 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 ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/05/03/vdpau-and-mythtv-021-update/ In the first part of this review we took a look at the DVB-T version of HDHomeRun under Mac OSX, and it is now time to try and get it working under Linux. Here I'll take a look at usingi it on a Linux Desktop, and in Part 3 I'll ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/03/29/hdhomerun-review-part-2/ The HDHomeRun has been a popular device in the US for a number of years, and the DVB-T compatible version has just been released here in New Zealand. Local distributor DigitalPRIDE were kind enough to lend me a unit both for review, and to see how well it works with ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/03/18/hdhomerun-review-part-1/ Finally had time to try out VDPAU in combination with MythTV. The MythTV team have implemented VDPAU support in yet to be released 0.22, but I want to try the backport to 0.21 developed by Jean-Yves Avenard. Test Setup Rather than using a laptop I moved onto one of the myPVR test ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/03/11/vdpau-and-mythtv-021/ Well it is finally time to test NVidia's VDPAU support under Linux. Test Setup Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop NVidia GeForce 8400M GS 128MB Video Intel Core 2 Duo T7500  @ 2.20GHz 3GB Ram Ubuntu 8.10 Nvidia 180.25 Video driver Compiz disabled CPU locked in performance mode of 2.2 GHz mplayer-vdpau-3402051 Hauppage HVR 900 digital tuner freeview|HD terrestrial signal Channel Playback Comparison Stats were collected ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2009/02/11/initial-vdpau-testing/ Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, has been out for several weeks now, and I've been testing the HVR 900 tuner since the later alpha releases starting some months ago. Now we have a final OS release just how well does this tuner work? First of all I'm using a vanilla HVR ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2008/11/16/hauppauge-hvr-900-tuner-and-ubuntu-810/ NVidia have announce a new API for hardware accelerated decode of video on Linux and Unix called VDPAU. This is awesome news for the Linux MythTV and Video community as the partial subset of NVidia's PureVideo functionality provides a dramatic drop in CPU usage when handling complex video codecs like ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2008/11/16/nvidia-announces-support-for-h264-and-vc1-decode-on-linux/ This is a follow up on my previous attempts to get the Em2880 based Hauppauge HVR-900 USB tuner working. First a word of warning. There appears to be a new model of the HVR-900 labeled the HVR-900H. This is a new hardware revision and uses a totally different chipset, and as ... http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/2008/06/08/hauppauge-hvr-900-tuner-and-ubuntu-hardy/