Category Archives: linux

DVBTheremin

Everyone with a DVB-T receiver knows that the tuner signal can get corrupted by the weather or in my case the bus which stops in front of the house I live in. Some DVB-T receivers display the tuner signal in an OSD of your TV. Since I’m using a DVB-T card in my PC with [...]

Bash Autocompletion for DVB channels

I finally added autocompletion for my TV channels for mplayer which is far superior to my previous method of looking up the exact channel’s name in my channels.conf and typing mplayer dvb://”channel’s name” in a terminal. I just added this very simple script to /etc/bash-completion.d/ _channel() { local cur COMPREPLY=() cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" local chans=$(cat .mplayer/channels.conf |sed [...]

De Morgan’s laws in procmail recipes

I have an account at dimeadozen, a torrent tracker “for audio and video recordings of independent origin (ROIO) which have not been officially released“. If you know me you’re aware of my hobby of recording concerts. Dime is by far the best resource to share those recordings although I appreciate archive.org‘s approach, too. I don’t [...]