I though it was about time that I posted a blog entry, but what was I going to blog about? Instead of blogging I should be working on muxy so I though that would be a good thing to describe.
Basicly muxy is a transport stream demultiplexor. That means you can use it for recording digital TV programs. You can actuall read more about it at MUXY the Muxer
Muxy forms part of the Digital ORB which will be a TV watching program like MythTV but without feature creep and targeted at Australian DTV.
October 5th, 2007
For the past week or so I have been working on a case mod for my mythtv box. Basicly it is a $45 SHAW case from MSY. I have mounted the 5.1 amp in the front of the case. This required cutting the sides and lid of the box to create the stepped lid. I then altered the front panel by cutting part of it away and mounting it lower down (and 180deg around). All the cutting was done with an Ozito high speed rotary tool (aka Dremel)
It also has a customised disk mount section in the front. The final case has integrated IR receiver and IT transmitter and wireless mouse receiver.
I have also installed a Coolermaster Hyper TX cpu cooler which is working very well and I have cut some extra holes in the power supply so the cpu cooler blows directly into the power supply. I still need to find a better fan for the power supply.
I still need to build something to house the IR transmitter but plans are underway. I just need to wait for some things to finish recording.
Once I installed everything and had the machine running, I decided the hard disk was getting too hot tucked away under the cdrom. I built another mounting bracket to go on the right hand side and have mounted a 5V fan blowing onto the disk. This is working well.
Once I complete the project I’ll try taking a better photo and post that.
January 8th, 2007
In January I built a home theatre PC with HDTV Digital and a DV300 30″ LCD TV. All was good, well actually there were still a lot of things to fix, but everything came to a halt last Friday when the 300Gig hard disk stopped working. When I turned on the machine it made lots of loud clunking. The disk was vertical at the time so I changed it to horizontal and it seemed to work a bit better. The machine runs and I managed to back up the important bits, but the disk is fatally wounded and needs to be replaced. 200Gig of TV recordings gone. Surprisingly, SMART still does not think the drive has gone bad which is not good for people using SMART and trusting it to warn them of impending doom.
April 27th, 2006
