Archive for May, 2007

Audio From A Younger Amrin

A Younger Amrin

It’s not every day we find a treasure like this around the house. Ellyn was playing with the family computer iTunes library, looking for good workout music and found this one. The audio is of Ellyn and Amrin talking about dinosaurs. Amrin has always been interested in paleontology and even at a very young age could identify them pretty well.

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MythTV Mplayer Video Volume Control

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If you are running MythTV and are having trouble getting your remote control volume buttons to work while watching videos with mplayer, create a .lircrc file for mplayer and saved it in the mythtv user home directory. This is where mplayer is used to seeing it. The config lines translate to commands you can get by running ‘mplayer -input cmdlist’. Basically, just create relationships between remote control buttons (defined in /etc/lircrc) and mplayer commands.

I am using a streamzap remote control, but I reckon this is how all of them would have to be modified to make them work. My system is FC6, Myth 0.20ish, installed using the walkthrough you’ll find by searching penrod.cc for mythtv.

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