As a bit of an experiment, I've made this quick and dirty "vlog" style tutorial video to show you how to install Shaken Fist on a single machine and boot your first instance. I demonstrate how to install, setup your first virtual network, start the instance, inspect events that the instance has experienced, and then log in. Let me know if you think its useful.
I imagine that most people saw this at the conference closing. However, for completeness and because I feel that if we're going to put videos of other speakers online then I should suffer the same fate, here is the LCA 2013 announcement from Ballarat:
A couple of people have contacted me in the last couple of days with an error where MythNetTV can't determine the directory to put videos in. The error would look something like this: Importing data/tekzilla--0050--tehbunniez--hd.h264.mp4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./mythnettv", line 453, in main(sys.argv) File "./mythnettv", line 212, in main mythnettvcore.DownloadAndImport(db, guid, out=out) File "/home/mythbox/Scripts/mythnettv/mythnettvcore.py", line 92, in DownloadAndImport prog.Import(out=out) File "/home/mythbox/Scripts/mythnettv/program.py", line 472, in Import raise FilenameException(self.db, 'Could not determine the video ' program.FilenameException: Could not determine the video directory for this machine. Please report this to mythnettv@stillhq.com The stack trace is mostly irrelevant. The problem here is that MythNetTV couldn't decide what directory to put the video in once downloaded. Please execute the following SQL statements against your MythTV database: select * from storagegroup where groupname="MythNetTV"; select * from storagegroup where groupname="Default"; select * from settings where value="RecordFilePrefix"; This will dump all of the possible places MythNetTV will look for a video directory. Once you've dumped this information, perform some simple checks: Is there anything listed at all? If not, you need to configure storage groups with the MythTV user interface Is there anything listed with the hostname that MythNetTV is running on? If not, you…
Uncontrollably awesome: Via Boing Boing -> Poetv.
I figured it was time for another release of MythNetTV, especially since I've fixed some bugs recently and rolled in code generously provided by George Nassas. New things in this release: Initial work on transcoding smaller files to something else Better error checking for MySQL configuration and accessibility Fixed bug where MythNetTV was unhappy if there were no channels configured in the MySQL database Found, and hopefully fixed, a bug where program dates were not always being tracked correctly. Also added a check to make sure this doesn't happen again Added --markread, which lets you mark old shows as already downloaded The code has seen a fair bit of use now, so it should be fairly stable. Let me know if you find any problems... $ ./mythnettv --statistics Programs tracked: 735 Google EngEdu: 350 Scoble Show: 85 linux.conf.au 2007: 74 Mobuzz TV: 82 dl.tv: 32 Net Cafe: 2 Foo: 1 ABC News: 2 Australia: 1 Play School: 1 Diggnation: 72 Programs still to download: 50 Google EngEdu: 49 Diggnation: 1 Data transferred: 103 gb (111017264341 bytes) Get it here if you care: http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/
As it says in the email: To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> Subject: MythNetTV beta 4 Hi again. MythNetTv is my video downloader / aggregator / importer thingie for MythTV. I've spent a little longer testing this beta, and I think it's getting kinda ready for a real release number or something. New things in this version (from the change log): - Made --update more terse - Made --update more liberal about what it considers to be a video, specifically added video/quick time and text/html (to work around the rather broken http://www.mobuzztv.com/uk/rss/quicktime - Added a filter option to --download to constrain it to only downloading shows with a specific title - Added transcoding for mov and wmv2 files - If there is a straggling import, and it causes as error, just skip it and mark it as imported - Don't reset transferred data statistic when we start downloading a show again - Started implementing moniker support for downloads - Unsupported monikers will result in an attempt to download the URL using mplayer (which works for RTSP and MMS at the least) Yes, that's right. You can now download only shows with a specific title, and you can also download any protocol…
The video of the kernel report is cool. It only has left hand audio though. I wish people would ask questions using the microphone though.
I'm watching the CFQ IO Scheduler talk now on MythTV using my MythTV program downloader thingie. Beware the very large audio volume jump about three minutes in. Just saying. Oh, and the "pan across blank blackboards for a bit at a funny angle" thing at around 6 minutes is pretty amusing too. Update: now with working URL for the downloader thingie!
It seems obvious to me that videos of LCA 2007 are good. Specifically: IPTraf # Statistics for eth0 ########################################################## # # # Total Total Incoming Incoming Outgoing Outgoing # # Packets Bytes Packets Bytes Packets Bytes # # Total: 241091 228940K 96646 18025370 144445 210915K # # IP: 241091 225548K 96646 16655328 144445 208892K # # TCP: 241086 225547K 96643 16655034 144443 208892K # # UDP: 4 412 2 266 2 146 # # ICMP: 0 0 0 0 0 0 # # Other IP: 1 28 1 28 0 0 # # Non-IP: 0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # # # Total rates: 49188.4 kbits/sec Broadcast packets: 0 # # 6592.2 packets/sec Broadcast bytes: 0 # # # # Incoming rates: 3814.2 kbits/sec # # 2714.4 packets/sec # # IP checksum errors: 0 # # Outgoing rates: 45374.2 kbits/sec # # 3877.8 packets/sec # # Elapsed time: 0:00 ######################################################### X-exit Yay for LCA 2007 videos.
Today we stopped off at a house in Los Angeles where one of James' friends lives. We're on the way to Tempe, Arizona -- that's another six hours or so away tomorrow.