HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

This is very cool.  Granted the rest of the system was fairly new they used a very cheap CPU and video card and successfully were able to playback HD video without much issue.  Once this makes its way into released applications (right now it’s all in patches) the general Linux community will see a nice performance boost.   It’s fairly […]

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Switching to Comskip for HD-PVR (h.264)

I noticed on babgvant’s blog that a new version of comskip is out and it seems to be the cat’s meow in terms of accuracy and stability. Two of my favorite terms when related to HTPC software.   Erik posted a version of Comskip (0.80.007) over the weekend to the donators site that not only sorted the crashing issues I […]

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Blu-ray coming to redbox

Looks like Blu-ray may be comming to RedBox soon(ish).  A friend of mine told me that Redbox was working on a Blu-ray option while keeping rentals at $1.  Today I found this up on their website, but no BD kiosk locations listed (yet).   Now you can rent Blu-ray Discs from redbox kiosks at select Walmart locations. That’s right, friend, […]

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