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            <p>Yipeee. After a quite a struggle, the analog TV tuner on the P7131 is working fine with mythtv and tvtime. However I cannot say the same about it's radio. The radio doesn't work at all. The only thing I can get out of it is an entry in /var/log/messages that says <em>"tuner' 1-004b: tuner has no way to set radio frequency"</em>.</p>
            <p>A google search for the error does not brings up anything usefull. But there was one post in a mailing list that <a href="https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-dvb/msg18697.html">included a patch for the saa7134 drivers</a>.</p>
            <p>In fact during my countless searches over the past few weeks I have seen innumerable patches for the saa7134 and other drivers. Many of the posters claimed that they were required to make even the TV tuner work. The truth is that none of them were needed. My kernel is supposed to have support for this card already.</p>
            <p>This particular patch though, appeared different and I got the feeling it might address the issue. It's been a long time since I last compiled a kernel. I am very reluctant to go through all that again so decided to apply the patch and compile just the relevent modules.</p>
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            <p>SSL on raditha.com has been broken for a while. That has been effecting my positioning on google. In the past almost every page on this site has been in the google index now many of them have disappeared and the few that remain appear as http://raditha.com:443/....</p>
            <p>If you try to access those links you should see a 400 bad request error. But that is not happening and this is not the right time to fix it. If I try to fix it now, even the few pages that remain in the google index will be dropped off. The solution is to use a rewrite rule to persuade the google bot to stop adding pages with :443 in the URL. The rule is simple</p>
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            <p>After sorting out all the <a href="1336.html">RPM dependencies for MythTV</a> In finally managed to get the it installed on my media center. No I didn't use LinuxMCE, I just installed all the RPMs using yum. Unfortunately I couldn't get any audio or video out of it. This was purely a configuration issue but I didn't know it at the time. Instead I jumped into wrong conclusions when I read a couple of posts that said MythTv 0.20 isn't compatible with the Asus MyCinema P7131.</p>
            <p>That conclusion isn't all that wrong either. MythTV 0.20 really doesn't work with it, but 0.20.2 is compatible. And that is exactly what was installed on my machine. So like the fool I am, I removed it with the greatest difficulty (yum again complained about dependencies when it shouldn't have done) and installed MythTV 0.21. That version hasn't yet been released and it's only available through the 'bleeding' version of the Atrpms repository.</p>
            <p>After installation of this version (but not because of it), I am finally getting some video on my screen. Unfortunately there is nothing on the speakers.</p>
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            <p>Mythtv on Fedora seems to be such a pain in the neck. Perhaps I should have downloaded mythdora instead but what I decided to do after giving up on Fedora 8 was to download linux MCE. There are two flavours, one for idiot and another for non idiot. Later on I found that there is little difference between the two.</p>
            <p>The flavour marked as being for idiots will format your hard drives and install kubuntu 7.04 on it followed by LinuxMCE. The non idiot mode gives you the option of formatting the hard drive yourself! The latter is a DVD download while the former is a 2-CD download.</p>
            <p>It was only after downloading both CDs using torrents that I found that Kubuntu 7.04 has to be downloaded separately. Darned if i will, this is an obsolete version. In fact it cannot even be directly downloaded from the Kubuntu site. So it's back to Fedora 8.</p>
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            <p>Been struggling with <a href="https://www.mythtv.org">MythTV</a> for a nearly two weeks. It seems that MythTV is just a myth. At first I tried to install from the sources but ./configure kept on complaining about a missing liblame even when it was present on the hard drive for all to see. So I switched to YUM.</p>
            <p>Installation through yum didn't go very smoothly either. Yum complained about missing dependencies even though yum is supposed to fix it. Some of the missing dependencies were related to ffmpeg and libmp4v2. I tried to install them through yumex only to find that they were already installed! Then I tried removing them and reinstalling - sometimes there are conflicts between RPMs from different repositories. Livna is a classic example, RPMs from that source often cause trouble.</p>
            <p>Removing libmp4v2 gave an interesting result:</p>
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