Fire ComcastTV - Refine network shares, DVD rip, new computer

Continuing to work on the Fire ComcastTV project.  I think I'll be able to do so sometime in the next week or so.  Verizon has pulled fiber and they should be contacting customers soon.  As soon as they do Comcast is gone.

Spent some time refining the configuration.


Refine network shares

The network shares for the 1TB USB network drive are a bit difficult to use.

• Create share on 1TB drive for /Public/Media directory as media_nas0000 
• Create share on 1TB drive for /Public/mythtv as mythtv_nas0000
• Install smbfs
• On ohio create permanent mount for media_nas0000
  
  sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.2/media_nas0000 /media/media_nas0000 -o password=,uid=rbell01824,gid=rbell01824

For reasons I don't understand this is not working.  I'll look at permissions and try a sleep to allow the mount to happen.

DVD rip

• vobcopy -I to get info
• vobcopy -l to copy title with most angles  clean and simple

Also downloaded thoggen and acidrip.  Tried both.  They both work.  thoggen is simple but rips at about playback speed so it takes a long time.  acidrip is much faster.  Where vobcopy is fast the output doesn't always play well.  One issue is that fast forward/back doesn't work with vobcopy but seems OK with thoggen and acidrip.

Had some difficulty with one DVD and found that dvd::rip worked OK.  Looks like you need to sometimes play a bit.

After experimentation I think acidrip is the pick of the litter.

2nd disk drive

There is a second sata drive on Ohio.  It's a 37 GB WDC that was probably previously a Windows drive.  There's no real reason to mount it so I'm going to just leave it alone for the moment.

New computer


Picked up a case (antec 300, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042) and power (antec 750, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371026) supply yesterday.  The case has 3 external and 6 internal bays so there is lots of expansion room.  I think I'll move the core 2 to this case and use the other case for the intel mobo I recently bought.


mythlink.pl


Tried this utility.  Links made in a directory owned on nas0000 owned by mythtv.  nas0000 mounted uid/gid mythtv.  Remounted as uid/gid rbell01824 and deleted directory.  This needs additional investigation before using mythlink.pl.

To DO

• Upgrade roku to use http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ROKU_HD_Frontend
• Build new system
• Finish the tivo slide support
• Setup mythnettv properly
• Finish freenas install
• Improve antenna.  Bow tie is better but could use better still.  Also consider array of fractal and large fractal.
• Remove passwords that popup