MPlayer is a black art. GMPlayer, doubly so. It turns out this does the job much better than my previous hacks: #!/bin/bash gmplayer -cache 2048 -zoom… ...more

Get it here: http://gssmp.sourceforge.net. This is the first time I've declared one of my projects stable, and given it a 1.0 version number. Prove me… ...more

Following on from the last post about how I got my TV card working, here is a little script I wrote that allows me to choose a channel and start watch… ...more

My card reports itself like this: $ lspci *snip* 0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) *snip Everything seemed t… ...more

See the last post for how I back up my important files to a remote server. To restore them I do this: duplicity --file-to-restore path/to/file.txt … ...more