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Re: BeagleBone Black Serial UART Device Tree Overlays for Ubuntu and Debian Wheezy (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05 .dtbo files)

andyvt — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:38:40 -0000

That was it. Thank you!

Re: BeagleBone Black Serial UART Device Tree Overlays for Ubuntu and Debian Wheezy (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05 .dtbo files)

andyvt — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:41:09 -0000

I ran through the steps above, and it does make /dev/ttyO1... appear, but I can't connect to it in my code. dmesg shows the results and it looks the same as ttyO0 (which I can use after disabling console output). Are the pin locations mapped differently doing it this way v. the echo method?

Thanks

Re: BeagleBone Black Serial UART Device Tree Overlays for Ubuntu and Debian Wheezy (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05 .dtbo files)

andyvt — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:00:48 -0000

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.

Re: BeagleBone Black Serial UART Device Tree Overlays for Ubuntu and Debian Wheezy (tty01, tty02, tty04, tty05 .dtbo files)

andyvt — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:50:45 -0000

Is there a reliable way to get the overlay to apply automatically when the system reboots? I haven't been able to make it work with rc.local or adding optargs=capemgr.enable_partno=ttyO1_armhf.com to uEnv.txt.

Thanks

Re: Join The Digital Media Zone and Home Server Show at a CES Meetup

andyvt — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:50:42 -0000

ICS?

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro dev tablet!

andyvt — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:15:59 -0000

Love to have one.

Re: How To Set Up SageTV 7 – SageTV Basics

andyvt — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:29:05 -0000

Sage isn't really targeted at non-technically inclined TV watchers. While I want them to be successful, targeting the "main stream" would necessitate changes that I'd probably find distasteful, and "main stream" is boring.

Re: HTPCentric 07: CableCard Breaks Out of Media Center

andyvt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:02:34 -0000

SageMCTuner will work for LiveTV in Sage. There isn't a distinction b/w live and recorded TV in Sage so when it sends a tune request SageMCTuner schedules a 12 hour (configurable) recorded TV request with MC and then does a container swap (not transcoding) from WTV->MPEG (or TS) back into the Sage recording directory.

Also, as Jerry noted it will only work with Copy Freely content.

Re: Entertainment 2.0 #91: Don’t Watch Cable Movies!

andyvt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:45:18 -0000

Looking for a good way to convert WTV->TS http://thegreenbutton.com/f... then automate with DTB.

Re: HTPCentric #04: The Hardware Show

andyvt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:07:06 -0000

This thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs... has some really good test patterns. The "cheese slices" DI pattern is here (http://www.avsforum.com/avs...

Re: HTPCentric #04: The Hardware Show

andyvt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:06:29 -0000

This thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs... has some really good test patterns. The "cheese slices" DI pattern is here (http://www.avsforum.com/avs...

Re: GoogleTV - TV Meets Innovation

andyvt — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:15:34 -0000

I don't have an iphone/android phone - it seems wrong that I should spend a lot of money to buy a platform for someone to "make Ads cool again" at me.

We'll have to see how practical the solution turns out to be, I just don't see it being something that anyone technical enough to already have an HTPC or care about privacy would use.

Re: GoogleTV - TV Meets Innovation

andyvt — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:12:54 -0000

I can see the value of a smarter TV experience for the general population; anything is better than the closed cableco STB. But for those who already have a PC connected up to the A/V stack (and can already run custom applications to do whatever - w/o ads or privacy concerns) I'm not convinced that GoogleTV really offers anything useful.

Re: Seen in HD 28 – 3D hands on, LOTR & Avatar previews, GI Joe review,

andyvt — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:10:52 -0000

The first sale doctrine (http://www.eff.org/deeplink... allows Redbox to buy retail disks and rent them out. Nothing stops you from doing the same.

Re: Entertainment 2.0-Episode 65: The Hockey Minute

andyvt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:53:45 -0000

The Win7 wtv->dvr-ms converter (and todvrms) only do container swaps. David needs to transcode the video stream to MPEG2 prior to attempting to stuff it in a DVR-MS.

Re: Netflix and Warner Bros Agreement Screws Their Customers

andyvt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:11:14 -0000

I am confident that it is a "smarter" approach :) Whether we see it or not...

The biggest underlying problem with the way all content owners (TV, movies, music-although not as much anymore) deal with the market is by limiting supply.

This approach just doesn't work effectively for digital good where the cost to copy and distribute approaches zero. They aren't just selling a rivalrous/scarce (i.e. a piece of plastic) any more and need to compete with the non-rivalrous reality of the thing that most people want (only collectors want the physical thing - box, art, etc). The nature of the good is what drives piracy, not the nature of the pirate.

Re: Netflix and Warner Bros Agreement Screws Their Customers

andyvt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:49:04 -0000

They are available on iTunes and Vudu day and date with the theater?

Even if they are, neither of those approaches is very useful as both require specialized (VUDU not as much) that is generally useless in other contexts and even though you're "buying" the content you don't own it.

Re: Netflix and Warner Bros Agreement Screws Their Customers

andyvt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:35:40 -0000

If the studios were smarter they could have done the same thing, but turned it to their PR advantage by making BD/DVD/Downloads* available during the theater window and paid Netflix, et. al to not rent.

I don't have a problem with studios subsidizing my rental mentality by paying companies not to rent during a window. If there is demand for "premium" rentals (i.e. people who are unwilling to wait the extra 28 days) someone will fill that void, and profit from it.

* Even smarter would be to just make a digital downloadable copy for sale at this time. No first sale worries, cut out some of the middle men, and it would catch a part of the illicit downloader market (those who are willing to pay to see the movie, or see it again, outside the theater but can't).

Re: Netflix and Warner Bros Agreement Screws Their Customers

andyvt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:59:16 -0000

If this outcome had been the result of WB strong-arming Netflix my take would be very different. As it stands however, this is a legit market based approach for creating incentives for buyers to buy. For renters who can't wait the month, there are other legal ways for them to obtain the content (i.e. Redbox); and longer term if consumers feel slighted by Netflix, it will be pressured by market forces to correct or face competition by other companies.

First sale applies to the disc; as a physical thing, the owner can do whatever they want with it. What the studios are doing to Redbox is not a market based approach. They are trying to bend the rules to fit the business model they want by applying monopolistic tactics, instead of creating a business model that works based on market forces.

It's not our responsibility to worry about the profitability of a studio. Did you empathize with Circuit City when its anti-consumer policies eventually took it down? They should create business models that work instead of pretending that there is a right to make money or that market forces should take their flavor of morality into account.

Re: Netflix and Warner Bros Agreement Screws Their Customers

andyvt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:48:58 -0000

While I don't agree with the move, I am having a hard time seeing any major harm in it. I've already waited however long it was b/w theater and BD, what's another 28 days?

Re: The Perfect HTPC Graphics Card

andyvt — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:21 -0000

I completely agree about the SW ecosystem; just think it's hard to limit the discussion to just one side. Without looking at the players it's quite possible to draw the wrong conclusion about what will work (and what won't).

All of the issues I noted were with Windows (should have been noted), it's quite possible that everything works properly on Linux :)

Re: The Perfect HTPC Graphics Card

andyvt — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:09:19 -0000

Looking at what codecs a particular family of cards can support really only tells part of the playback picture. It's also important to look at the player infrastructure to determine what features are actually implemented (so you can use them). For e.g. Haali presents VC-1 as WVC1, and AFAIK there aren't any DXVA2 compatible DirectShow filters that support this media type on Nvidia hardware.

When searching for the perfect GPU it's also important to look at picture quality. For e.g., Nvidia (at least with the cards I've tested, which doesn't include the latest generation) has consistently had issues with video color space when using an HDMI connection. Some players correct for this (PDVD & TMT for e.g.), where others require some (usually undocumented) tweaking to make black black and white white.

I don't mean this to come across as Nvidia bash (a 5200, 6600GT, 7300GT, 7900GS, and 8600GT have all done time in my HTPC); just pointing out some issues that should be considered in any discussion on the topic.

Re: 2009 Digital Media Zone HD Gift Guide

andyvt — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:54:54 -0000

FWIW the TC-P50U1 doesn't have real 24p support. While it will accept a 24p input, it does 2:3 pulldown internally.

Re: Seen in HD Episode 12 – Blu Christmas

andyvt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:04 -0000

If you're interested, I'd be happy to disclose my model in a less public place :)

Re: Seen in HD Episode 12 – Blu Christmas

andyvt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:37 -0000

It's relatively easy to get a new release from Netflix; you just need to know how their system works and when to return the discs you have. The only time I've missed a new release that I really wanted was when Netflix started processing returns on Saturday and I forgot to adjust the model.