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Most folks buy their TV's at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there's a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television set. But that's not my style. I've been using a Commodore 64 color monitor hooked up to a VCR since the late 80's and it's worked great. On the other hand, VCR's are going the way of the dodo and a 13" television with weak mono sound isn't much fun so I should probably upgrade.

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The infrared setup is pretty hokey; there's one daemon to read the device, then another program (irxevent) to translate from the remote control events to keystrokes. With my remote, the problem is that the joystick in the center is much too sensitive which makes it very hard to move one channel at a time.

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< 2003-12-14 - in order to not fill up my / partition (which is small) I symlinked /var/cache/mythtv and /var/lib/mythtv to directories under /home/mythtv. I couldn't find any other way to tell mythtv where to put the files.

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> 2003-12-14 - in order to not fill up my / partition (which is small) I symlinked /var/cache/mythtv ~~and /var/lib/mythtv~~ to directories under /home/mythtv. I couldn't find any other way to tell mythtv where to put the files. UPDATE /var/lib/mythtv (where mythtv records shows) is now a mount point on the IDE disk. For now it's a 30GB drive but one of these days I'll swap it for something bigger.

2004-02-15 - I haven't been fiddling much, but I've been watching a lot. Things seem to work well, and MythTV is getting better all the time. Now I wonder if I want to get a better encoder card, I hear that they're worth it because they produce higher-quality output.

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> 2004-02-21 - while I was monkeying around inside the machine (to add an IDE controller) I rearranged the order of the cards to see if it would make a difference in the picture quality. The DL380 has horizontal PCI slots and I put the tuner in the topmost slot so that its electronic side was facing the top of the case, and its back was facing the other cards. It makes a noticable difference! Most channels aren't affected but channels 2 and 6 were very noisy and, while still somewhat noisy, are improved.

2004-02-24 - I'd like to be able to record shows and archive them onto cd or dvd. http://www.forevermore.net/mythtv/ has a tool that transcodes mythtv's file format into formats that can be burned onto disk. Need to try it out.

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