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I have been trying to figure this out for a very long time. I know I was able to do it once but I couldn’t figure out how to do it again so I am posting it here for myself and the rest of the world to know.
Open up a command line and type “tree c:\” This will display a tree of all the files on your c drive (way better than dir if you ask me). If it is taking a while just push Ctrl+C to make it stop. Now type “tree c:\ > c:\tree.txt” That will save the whole directory listing to the tree.txt file. I am very excited I finally got this to work.
If anyone else has some nice command line tools that they have been wanting for a while post them in the comments.

Expect more on this later.

P.S. I am so glad I finally found a site that told me how to get YouTube videos to work.

I have mentioned the IT Crowd before and if you haven’t seen it yet you need to check out the recently released DVD or at least read some of the 1337 subtitles. In honor of the show my wife Beth has cross-stitched a great tribute the IT Crowd using a pattern we made from screen shots of the intro. Hope you enjoy!

© Beth Garrison 2006

I just wanted to let myself know all the multiplayer maps in F.E.A.R. because I couldn’t find a good list anywhere else online. These are all of the multiplayer maps that come with F.E.A.R. Combat 1.08.

Under Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Elimination, etc.

Asylum (8-16)
Cafeteria (8-16)
Campus (8-16)
Construction (6-12)
Docks (4-8)
Evacuation (6-12)
Factory (8-16)
High Tech (2-6)
Office (4-8)
Refinery (2-6)
Stockpile (8-16)
Waterworks (6-16)

And under CTF, Control, etc.

Dead Wood (4-16)
Depot (6-16)
Facility (6-16)
Heliport (8-16)
Labs (8-16)
Spillkill (4-16)
Streets (6-16)

Mythtv 0.20 is working great with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 right now! Here is the trick, HD takes a lot of processing power!!! I tried with a couple of P4 2.4 boxes but I could not get things to tune and I could not get things to play. Here is a tutorial that I have been using to get this set up multiple times.
I finally stepped up and tried this whole set-up on a P4 3.2. Yes, it is faster than my current desktop but it works so well I don’t know if I even care. Shortly after setting up Mythtv (and getting the frontend to actually show up) I started scanning for channels. My Fusion card did a pretty good job scanning channels in QAM 256 and actually got 5-6 HD channels. Shortly after the scan I went back into the frontend to make sure I could watch the shows and they worked pretty well (not flawless but I defiantly was watching HD). The next hurdle to overcome is being able to record shows. Recording works without a problem but the station information (what shows are playing at what times, etc.) was not working. So now that is what I am trying to do. Get some information on channels (although channel 2 works fine).

Here are the steps I am taking to make a custom channels.conf file. Using the tutorial above install the nessessary tools

sudo apt-get install dvb-utils dvbstream
sudo apt-get install gxine mplayer

Then scan for some channels

sudo -s -H
mkdir /root/.tzap
scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-QAM256 > /root/.tzap/channels.conf

Just to make sure I got all the channels I needed I repeated the last scan step with a few other options. You can find all the options for scanning by just doing

ls -a /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc

To be honest I have no idea if this is going to work. I am still scanning channels. I sure hope it does though. For now here are a couple other links that are helping me figure out this whole custom channels.conf file.

Until I finish all of these scans, wish me luck!

This is yet another post for myself to be able to replicate this setup at another time.

The background to this is that I used to always use xbox connect to play halo 1 online. It is a great system made by a great guy (woot Todd!). I was involved with the community for a really long time but recently I switched over to the dark side (xlink kai) because of their support for multiple operating systems and their connectivity with modded xbox’s. I was setting up xlink on my mythtv box (which actually seems to be working mostly) and I just wanted to post instructions on how to get it to work if I ever have to reformat.

Basically just download the tar.bz file from www.teamxlink.com and extract the file. Open kaid.conf with a text editor and adjust settings as needed. Once the settings are all done copy the kaid.conf file to the /etc folder and then the kaid file to /usr/bin. Now to run the xlink server simply type “sudo kaid” in a terminal. (or set it to run at start up).

Connecting from xbox media center is easy. Just go to the settings and then “My Programs”. Turn on the service and put in your user name and login information. After that everything in controlled from the xbox. It is a great system and I now can play halo 1 online without ever needing to touch a controller.

I hope this helps.

I haven’t had a chance to go through this script but I also saw this in the forums for running kai via a startup script. Enjoy.

I am back from New York and had a blast. I started off in Niagara Falls, Canada and then went on to Rochester, NY. My one year anniversary has come and gone and now it is time to get back to work. I need to get Mythtv working before all the HD shows are over for the season. For now I have been having fun with my new Canon SD630 taking lots of pictures and making sure it is everything I hoped it would be. (and it is!!)
I was able to do a little more work to my site. Check out the new Gallery and all the pictures I have been meaning to upload for a long time now.

Whenever I grab Mythtv source I need to have certian flags set. Here are the flags I use

–enable-xvmc

–enable-xvmc-pro

–enable-dvb

–enable-proc-opt

I hope to find out what all of these do (in more detail than I know now) and when I find out I will put that here. Until then here are the rest of the flags that I could find.

–enable-firewire

–enable-xvmc-vld

Honestly that is all I could find. I may add to this later but for now this is all I got.

I started my Mythtv building with a Haugpauge 500 tuner card, 20 gb hard drive, and knppmyth. at the time the ivtv drivers for hauggpauge tuner cards was not very mature and could not handle the haugepauge 500 cards very well. The haugepauge tuner also did not fit in the computer that I wanted it to fit in. One bonus to this tuner was the fact that it also had a built in FM tuner for raido signals. I really didn’t care about this feature but I thought it was a nice addition.

Knoppmyth was easier than I could have ever imagined to install and set up but it did not include support for the Haugpauge 500 card that I was trying to use. One problem I had with knoppmyth was because most steps were done for me I had no idea how to add my own things or edit certian files to make it the way I wanted it. It was kinda like picking up someone elses project and trying to make it your own.

I attempted to use Mythdora which is very similar to Knoppmyth but instead of using Debian it used Fedora Lunix. I was told that it was a little bit more “state of the art” with its driver support but I found that I did not like Fudora as much as I liked Debian.

After trying the self installers I decided I would just try and build Mythtv myself from scratch. I mean how hard could it be? I started with Debian Sarge. I got Debian installed and then started reading documentation on how to get the newest ivtv drivers installed, media programs, and Mythtv.

I quickly gave up on Debian because, well, because there was to much documentation to read. I didn’t have time to read book upon book of documentation I just wanted to get mythtv working. At this point I took my first break from Mythtv. Things looked too difficult so I put it on the side for a month to figure out what I was going to do.

Ever since halo 2 I have lost faith in the halo series. But this video sure does look good. 720p video in the comments.

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