[NCLUG] MythTV Presentation on Feb. 12

[Brian Wood]

DJ Eshelman wrote:
> Though I've not tried this out myself, I've heard great things about
> 
> http://www.fiire.com/
> 
> they have a gyroscope based remote that I've seen demonstrated for LinuxMCE
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829

I have a Gyration mouse that works on the same principle. It works as a 
standard optical mouse or you can wave it in the air. It takes some 
getting used to but it does work.
> 
> Personally, I think this is a great concept- a company creating hardware 
> solutions for an open source software - very much the spirit of the 
> thing :)

Can't argue with you there.

> 
> good luck!  Sorry I missed the demonstration- since I went to DirecTV HD 
> with it's own DVR there's been little justification for MythTV/LinuxMCE 
> - though I'd MUCH rather have that interface and flexibility.
> 
> So- the question is, does anyone know if it's possible to use DTV-HD 
> with MythTV?  I was under the impression that it's not, but you never 
> know- the DVRs HDDs at one time were encrypted linux drives, but I 
> haven't ripped open my unit to find out...  So breaking the encryption 
> wouldn't be very likely but if the same functions of the DVR could be 
> somehow emulated so that DTV doesn't know the difference (I know, 
> grasping at straws here).

DirectTV HD can be done with a "jeeped" satellite receiver, which is, I 
believe, not legal in the USA. I have seen ads on the net for such 
receivers but I do not know how well they might work, it's possible the 
ads are fraudulent, after all - who would you complain to?

There has been some discussion on the MythTV lists about an upcoming 
Hauppauge unit, due out this quarter, that can take the component HD 
output and encode it. If it actually does what is claimed it might work 
with Myth, but drivers would have to be developed.

Hauppauge has been as cooperative as they can be with OSS developers, 
but they have problems with third-parties who are not so open minded,

> 
> To make matters worse- an increasing amount of content is locked out of 
> the Component video outputs (HDMI only).
> 
> And along the lines of this topic- I'm wondering if anyone on this list 
> works for Yellow Dog and would like to give a demonstration of 
> installing YellowDog onto a PS3?
> 

Terrasoft Solutions is in Loveland. I bought a PS3 from them with YD 
already installed, but looking over the instructions is doesn't look too 
hard. They are the ones who did the YD development for the PS3.

I bought the PS3 from them as I would much rather support an outfit 
doing OSS development than some Big Box store which sends all its 
profits out of state.

If no TerraSoft Solutions employees are on this list I'd be happy to 
contact them about a demo. I could also do such a demo myself but let me 
get past the MythTV demo first :-)

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