Archive for August, 2009

Acer Aspire Revo - A cheap HD frontend?

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

ord-ace-revo-150x150Was tipped off about this fantastic article from a recent Ubuntu Uk Podcast.  The hardware looks pretty interesting an could make a great HD frontend for MythTV with VDPAU enabled. There’s a good post about trying VDPAU in MythBuntu on the forums but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet as I don’t have one of the supported GPUs.

Anyway, just thought the article was so good it was worth pointing out for anyone that might be looking for a cheap, near silent HD frontend.

Update to Configuring Your MCE IR Remote

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Just made a quick update to the Configuring Your MCE IR Remote post. I have added in Audio Delay + and - to the mplayer lirc config. This allows you to control the audio / video sync with the Blue and Yellow buttons on your MCE remote. I had quite a few films that have the audio out of sync so this can now be sorted without reaching for the keyboard :)