<kirjava> anyone awake?

<hads> It's midday.

<kirjava> Lol

<kirjava> Still

<kirjava> Figure of speech

<kirjava> Hads: know of any nz-specific websites for htpc stuff?

<kirjava> Im meaning wiki/forum rather than e-tail

<hads> What type of HTPC stuff?

<kirjava> I dunno

<kirjava> Was thinking dvb but anything in general

<kirjava> If not im thinking of starting something

<kirjava> Freeview is not far away and there seems to be no one site that is a "check first" resouce

<hads> There's the mythtvnz users group

<hads> There's the pvr.geek.nz wiki

<kirjava> Ah right

<kirjava> Thats prolly what im after

<hads> There's mythtv.co.nz which is sort of spamvertising for the openmedia guy

<kirjava> Yeah seen that

<hads> But he passes it off as a news site.

<hads> DVB is cool

<kirjava> Any off them have irc channels?

<hads> Na, do'nt know of any locally orientated pvr related irc chat

<hads> There's the mythtvnz mailing list

<kirjava> Yeah, ive just got a dvb-s card,using it with mediaportal atm

<kirjava> I havnt even played with myth because mediaportal "just works"

<hads> What is mediaportal?

* hads is reading

<hads> Oh, Windows based?

<kirjava> I imagine myth+dvb+dvb epg would take alot of fiddling

<kirjava> Yeah winblows

<hads> It took me a little fiddling to get going but now it's great.

<kirjava> Not over the moon about that but it works like a dream

<hads> I modified a python script that someone posted to get EPG from DVB

<hads> http://nice.net.nz/epgsnoop

<kirjava> Yup seen that

<kirjava> Sky or freeview epg?

<hads> I get mine from the Sky transponder

<hads> DUnno what's happening with the Freeview stuff yet.

<kirjava> K

<hads> I'll wait until it all settles down

<kirjava> What card you using?

<hads> Skystar2

<hads> I've got a couple but only one installed at the moment.

<hads> And a PVR150 for capturing Sky

<kirjava> Currently the have epg for maori/1/2

<kirjava> Yup

<kirjava> What distro?

<hads> Ubuntu, with mythtv from SVN

<kirjava> Just using the skystar2 for epg or tv too?

<kirjava> Yup

<hads> Use it for pulling 1 and 2 from the Sky feed

<kirjava> Easy enough to get skystar going with ubuntu/myth?

<hads> Yeah, the cards just work out of the box (kernel drivers). Just configuring it is all you need to figure out.

<hads> with myth that is.

<hads> Myth is a bit of a beast to configure if you haven't done it before.

<kirjava> Ok, all the transponder config done in myth?

<hads> Yeah.

<kirjava> Ive set it up with no tv card before

<kirjava> So i could prolly bash my way around

<hads> Yeah. You need to plug in the transponder, LOF and that.

<kirjava> Could use desktop as frontend then

<hads> Yeah, I have a master frontend/backend and occasionally use my desktop as a FE. In the process of setting up a diskless FE for the bedroom

<hads> Everything is going except I can't get the DVI output working with X :(

<kirjava> I want to setup an analog tuner for prime and 3/4 till they go to freeview

<kirjava> Ouch

<hads> Yeah, we have ultra crap analog reception so no luck for us.

<kirjava> Might go windows on a second box for free sky goodness

<hads> 3/4 will go Free soon, they already have test streams up.

<hads> Prime won't be for a long time aparently.

<hads> Which is a bummer

<kirjava> Sky should just transmit it enencrypted

<kirjava> Silly wasting transponder space txing it twice

<kirjava> Same as 1-4 and maori

<kirjava> All on sky already

<hads> Yeah that would be nice, aparently the rights to some of their programs don't cover transmitting it (primt) unencrypted over satelitte.

<hads> 1/2 is unencrypted

<kirjava> Bummer

<kirjava> Yeah and some of the radio

<kirjava> And i think maori too

<hads> Yeah possibly. Never looked at it.

<kirjava> Stayed at a motorcamp in raglan last night

<kirjava> They had topfield dvb-s stb's all over the place

<hads> Interesting

<kirjava> Yeah i was pleasantly surprised

<kirjava> I assume analog sucks

<hads> Righto off to the supermarket. Having a BBQ.

<kirjava> Myth has a winblows frontend aye?

<hads> Na not really.

<hads> There's a couple of projects but nothing good I don't think

<kirjava> Lol

<kirjava> Ok

<kirjava> Would be nice to have a cross platform solution

<hads> Dunno, I don't really know a lot about Windows these days.

<kirjava> The mediaportal team have a standalone tvserver

<kirjava> They hinted at having clients for linux etc

<hads> It's probably something Mythtv could do once they shift to QT4 but I doubt any of the devs would be interested.

<kirjava> Would be nice to have support in myth

<hads> Right, TTYL

<kirjava> Qt4 as in qt gfx lib?

<kirjava> Ok

<kirjava> Cya

<hads> Yeah, that's what it's based on QT3 at the mo

<hads> moving to QT4 at some stage.

<hads> Later

<hads> Wow, chilli cordial.

<ajmitch> afternoon

<FordPrefect_NZ> g'd-arvo :)

<FordPrefect_NZ> yo albeano2004

<FordPrefect_NZ> hey, anyone here know why /dev/null would suddenly start complaining about permission denied? wanna ask here before i try the main channel. wont even get heard in there lol. plus sick of having to log into tty1 and chmod-ing it xD

<albeano2004> hey FordPrefect_NZ

<FordPrefect_NZ> hey :)

<albeano2004> I upgraded to Edgy the other day, then promptly downgraded within a couple of days

<albeano2004> I just didn't like enough of the features to justify using it - plus, Dapper Drake is far better

<FordPrefect_NZ> lol

<FordPrefect_NZ> he wouldnt say that if he was a kde user. thats for sure.

<mattb> FordPrefect_NZ: what permissions is /dev/null being set to?

<FordPrefect_NZ> let me have a look

<FordPrefect_NZ> oh wait... id have to reboot to look lol

<FordPrefect_NZ> brb i need to restart X anyway

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