Iron Sky tickets now available on Finnkino.

Finally found time to upgrade drupal from 6.x to 7.2.

Upgrade went quite smoothly, only had to enable update for multisites from settings.php during upgrade, views module had to be removed totally.

Playback with NVidia ION based chipset with mythtv can easily provide 1080p H.264 playback even with low powered CPU´s like Atom.

However, with some content I have noticed heavy pixelation, which increases after keyframes gradually, until next keyframe.

I found that adding these custom filters to TV playback settings made the problem go away:

vdpauskipchroma,vdpaucolorspace=auto,vdpaubuffersize=32

Currently in process of thinking some new wallpapers for my man cave (previously known as guest room)

I´m thinking of getting some wallpapers made from own photo, so now selecting the photo is a biggest challenge.

At the moment high on the list is some photo from Airbus (or simulator) cockpit as in http://kokkonen.fi/realflightsimultator

#!/bin/sh
#startmythfrontend.sh
#Start mythfrontend and/or lircd on by remote button press from irexec
# install notify-send with sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin before using this script
if [ ! "$(pidof mythfrontend.real)" ]
then
echo "Mythfrontend is not started. Starting Mythfrontend..."
notify-send -u critical "MythTV" "Mythfrontend is not started. Starting Mythfrontend..."
# DISPLAY=:0 xset -dpms
DISPLAY=:0 mythfrontend > /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log 2>&1 &
else
notify-send -u critical "MythTV" "Restarting mythfrontend"

I finally found suitable compromise for my Mythtv remote control needs.

I have wanted to use Logitech Harmony remote, without needed to teach the codes by hand.
Receiver must be USB
Receiver must be easy to configure. I was heavily looking for suitable receiver, which would act as USB HID keyboard, so that would have been zero confin on the receiver.

Those I found had some other problems, so I had to satisfy myself with LIRC based solution.

Having Atom based frontend just is not powerful enough to handle some HD content. Running 720p material through frontend causes Internal player to have serious amount of pixelation. Playing video files with mplayer without tweaking causes audio lag.
I ran into some pages which had some good tweaks around the issue and I managed to combine a version that runs smoothly with HD and has no audio or pixelation problems:

mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 -ac hwdts -vo xv -subfont-text-scale 3 -cache 8912 -cache-min 4 -lavdopts threads=2:fast:skiploopfilter=all -sws 0 %s

Forums
www.kopterit.net
www.helifreak.com
www.runryder.com
www.lennokit.net

International shops
www.fast-lad.co.uk
http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.801
http://www.rcmarket.org/

I modified this script to work on N900. For some reason the original did not work, I had to remove the -x parameter.

Next I have to find how to get this running automatically every 10 minutes.

#!/bin/ash
USERHOST=jarikokk@192.168.1.11 # Login and External system
RPORT=22 # port on your external system
FPORT=1337 # Port that will be opened locally to tunnel SSH
CONN=localhost:80   # SSH Listener on the system behind the firewall

COMMAND="ssh -q -f -n -N -R $FPORT:$CONN $USERHOST -p $RPORT"