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jbyram2
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 Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: PVR with antenna rotator and Digital STB |
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OK, the mad inventor persona is not entirely inaccurate. Here's the latest creation (really!)
Since I don't have cable TV, and stations come from two different directions, the antenna rotator was a necessity!
Hardware:
Homebuilt 1600MHz Duron on ECS K7S52A mobo 640MB RAM
60GB HDD for system files, and 200GB for videos only
Two other servers on network to hold pictures and music.
Hauppauge PVR-150MCE tuner card(Recieves and encodes analog TV, and captures video from Digital STB below)
USB-UIRT (Sends IR commands to rotator and digital STB)
Channelmaster 9521 antenna rotator (Rotates antenna to directions preset for each channel)
Samsung SIR-T150 DIgital set top box (Recieves Digital TV and outputs to S-video)
2X Hauppauge MediaMVP D3A, one in living room and one in bedroom
Software:
GBPVR, with PlainJane and UbuStream plugins
Girder (This was needed for the programming flexibility to access secondary digital channels, since the STB needed "up arrow" command to get to -2 and -3 channels)
VLC (used to capture and transcode streaming internet video)
Folding@Home
What it does:
Records, plays, time shifts analog or digital TV
Rotates antenna automatically for the station being watched or recorded
Stays completely silent, since the server is in the computer room and only the MediaMVP is in the bedroom and Living rooms.
Plays internet videostreams, Webcams, YouTube videos on TVs
Cleans out commercials from recorded shows
Views picture slide shows, plays music library
Views Weather reports, movie theater listings, Rss Newsfeeds,
Has highly adjustable skin appearance
Cures diseases in it's spare time
All of above sitting on the couch using remote.
And the Wife uses it.
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alpha_fruit
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Power
Vibrator
Rotator
Sexually
Transmitted
Bouquets
Are these new producta from Jamco(tm)?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| alpha_fruit wrote: | Power
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I was going to comment, but I was rendered speechless by Alpha's remarks... 
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alpha_fruit
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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It's about time, Sir John, I surprise myself at times. Ya see, when you get old, you can say things like that and not know what in the hell you're talking about. 
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| alpha_fruit wrote: | | It's about time, Sir John, I surprise myself at times. Ya see, when you get old, you can say things like that and not know what in the hell you're talking about. |
I can't wait for that day (or at least the day where everyone thinks that and I will just say anything at any time). 
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jbyram2
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| alpha_fruit wrote: | | It's about time, Sir John, I surprise myself at times. Ya see, when you get old, you can say things like that and not remember what in the hell you just said. |
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Michelle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Alpha wrote: | Power
Vibrator
Rotator
Sexually
Transmitted
Bouquets
Are these new producta from Jamco(tm)? |
Power Vibrator Rotator sounds like a lot more fun than Penguin Vaginal Retractor. 
| Alpha wrote: | It's about time, Sir John, I surprise myself at times. Ya see, when you get old, you can say things like that and not know what in the hell you're talking about.
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I'm looking forward to that stage. Not quite there yet, so I'm saving it all up so that I can let loose in about 20 - 25 years.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| Michelle wrote: |
The Power Vibrator Rotator is a lot more fun than Penguin Vaginal Retractor. |
How would you know?
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alpha_fruit
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Girls don't kiss and tell, so stop with the questions.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| alpha_fruit wrote: | | Girls don't kiss and tell |
And with that picture firmly planted in my head, I must now go poke out my mind's eye.
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alpha_fruit
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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If you tell your wife, she will clear it up for you. 
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Michelle
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| mohrorless wrote: | | Michelle wrote: |
The Power Vibrator Rotator is a lot more fun than Penguin Vaginal Retractor. |
How would you know? |
Hey!! That isn't what I said. 
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| Michelle wrote: | | Hey!! That isn't what I said. |
I read between the lines.
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| Michelle wrote: | | You're a very imaginative reader then. |
I try.
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