User:Mattwire

About Me

I currently work as a Broadcast Systems Engineer for the BBC in Television Centre, London. In my spare time I throw myself down hills on a mountain bike, down caves on a rope and other silly pursuits...

Involved with various IPTV projects and DVB multiplexing for the UK as well as European satellite operations.

MythTV Boxes

Combined Front/Backend - Galahad

• MSI K8NGM2-FID
• Athlon64 3200+
• 512MB DDR RAM
• 320Gb Seagate Barracude SATA HDD (/ - ext3; /store - xfs)
• nVidia 6150 on-board (Component, DVI, Composite Out)
• 1x KWorld DVB-220RF Hybrid PCI (DVB-T/Analog/FM - Saa7134 chipset)
• 1x Kworld DVBS-100 PCI (DVB-S - CX88 chipset, currently unused since no access to satellite feed)
• Ubuntu Feisty with customised MythTV packages built from SVN head
• IRMan serial infra-red receiver (to be replaced with a UIRT2 when I build one)

Other systems on my network run a frontend which connects to Galahad as and when required.

Patches/Modifications

Patches I'm Using

• [1] Alsa input for analog capture
• [2] Mythfrontend rescales themes every startup
• [3] osd channel icon not rescaled on osd theme change
• [4] Autodiscovery Patch for MythFrontend
• [5] Allow mythtv-setup to use the downloadable icons from the new online database

Patches I want to test/apply

• [6] Avoid OSD resize from 4:3 when viewing 16:9 TV