VDR hack: Stream video with synced audio
VDR streams very well with the streamdev-plugin, but only unicast http streams. That is usually no problem, because even 3 streams aren’t nearly too much for a normal 100Mbit home network and I wouldn’t need any more at home. But with the world cup starting tomorrow me and Karin are going to watch some games [...]
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Google Maps Navigation nun auch in Deutschland
Seit heute ist es möglich ein Android Mobiltelefon mit Google Maps als Navigationssystem mit “Turn-by-Turn-Navigation” und Sprachausgabe zu benutzen. In den USA gibt es das Feature nun schon einige Monate, nun dürfen wir in Deutschland auch. Ich habe die Funktion eben auf dem Rückweg von der Arbeit getestet und muss sagen, dass es ziemlich gut [...]
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Flattr: Flatrate für Blog-Bezahlung
Ich habe letztens von flattr erfahren und heute meinen Beta-Invite bekommen. Falls ihr Interesse habt, verlose ich hier einige Invites. Für die, die noch nicht wissen was flattr ist, empfehle ich das unten eingebundene YouTube-Video. Flattr ist ein Micropayment-Dienst, bei dem man einen monatlichen selbst gewählten Beitrag zahlt. Dann kannst Du verschiedene Inhalte im Netz [...]
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Stream of the World Cup 2010
This year I wanted to stream the FIFA World Cup 2010 (or Weltmeisterschaft 2010 here in Germany ) to a few computers at my work. I chose VLC to do this because of its build in excellent streaming capabilities. There are also more flexible or powerful streaming solutions from VLC like VLM or DVBlast, but [...]
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Just read: Wil Wheatons «Dancing Barefoot»
After having read Wil Wheatons «Just a geek» (about which I wrote a week ago), I thought I’ll also read Wils first book «Dancing Barefoot». If you liked Just a geek, I bet you won’t be disappointed by its predecessor. But to be honest I liked Just a geek more, it felt more personal and [...]
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Just read: Wil Wheatons «Just a geek»
Last weekend I finished Just a geek by Wil Wheaton. As a Star Trek fan I always enjoy reading literature about the backgrounds and the people behind Star Trek, but this book wasn’t just interesting, I found it also quite educational about life, the universe and everything. Wil wrote a very open book about his [...]
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Asus M4N78-VM and wakeup under linux
I guess if I wait until I’ve completed something, I’ll never blog about stuff like this. So I’ll try to have this here in smaller bites: My new mainboard for the vdr (Asus M4N78-VM) runs great so far with linux, especially at the moment yavdr: HDTV on the DVI worked out of the box. And [...]
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Installation via USB
I just got some new hardware for my new (or overhauled) vdr. (More on that later…) I wanted to try out yavdr and needed a cd drive for the installation. I looked in my basement for an old drive, finally found one in an old IBM Intellistation and got it out of there. Then I [...]
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