When you create a home network the most important aspect is a concealment of cables. To make your life easier it was invented a way to pass IP traffic over home power lines. If your PC is in the one room and ADSL modem is in another you need to plug a Powerline Adapter near you PC and connect them and another – near ADSL […]
Laptop + PCTV USB Stick = PVR
Company Pinnacle offers an intertesting solution to watch digital terrestrial TV – PCTV USB Stick. It’s easily plugin to USB port and comes with mini remote control, rod antenna and TV recording software. So, using PCTV USB Stick you can turn your laptop or PC into a PVR. Useful features: Capture TV or radio shows to your hard disk in MPEG- 1/-2 or DivX format. […]
Grub is really cool!
AS I already wrote I made a small upgrade of my home PC: I boutgh LCD display and new hard drive. I installed the hard drive as a master and an old one as slave. The problem was I had two OS on the old disk – Linux and Windows and used GRUB as boot loader. After adding new hard disk and installing Windows there […]
Illuminated Keyboard
If you a real geek guy defenetly you should have this keyboard on yout desk! Higly recomended for people who like work with PC at night 🙂
Howto build VDR (in pictures)
To get some idea about VDR hardware have a look this forum topic. It’s on German but if you cannot read it (me too :)) you the pictures might tell you all details. This guy did incredible work. Maybe it’d be easier to buy some stock-produced case instead 😉
How to install VDR
I talked about possibility to build PVR from PC. So, it’s time to say how to install VDR. It can be done by many ways (sounds like Perl slogan): Traditional method to build from sources. Get latest version from VDR FTP – stable or developer versions depend of your requirements. Here is a good explanation howto install VDR from the sources on Slackware and Mandriva […]
LinuxTV
The right point to start to build PVR is LinuxTV.org. There are DVB and VDR wiki where you can find many useful things. I knew nothing about PVR two monthes ago and LinuxTV gave me a good start. Also, you can find there DVB driver and utilities.