In this post explico cómo intento que Tvheadend use las capacidades de transcodificación (encode y decode) por Hardware ofrecidas por Intel Quick Sync Video (por ejemplo en sus NUC’s). El objetivo es que los streams de video utilicen mucho menos ancho de banda. Pensaba que NO me iba a hacer falta debido a mi caso de uso (Tvheadend para ver canales iptv en un entorno sin problemas de ancho de banda, router Linux + Fibra y clientes raspberry con Kodi por cable Ethernet)… …

I need to be able to open a program by pressing a HotKey, regardless of which application has focus. Applications typically don’t come with this option but there are cases where it could be useful. …

In this post I describe how to provide a file sharing service over the network with SMB2 (Samba). It’s a very simple example, with a Linux machine as the server and a Mac OSX as the client. I have another post about SMB and QNAP that is very similar. …

I published this post on Wordpress in February 2016 so, although outdated, you have a reference on how to install Tvheadend on a Linux server to watch IPTV channels via my Movistar Fusion TV contract. I used Tvheadend 4.1-1566 and a new EPG download method. …

In this post I describe how to expand the hard drive of a qcow2 virtual machine (VM) on KVM. In the example I will expand the 10GB hard drive of my cortafuegix VM to 15GB. …

In this post I describe how to install Gentoo Linux on a Raspberry Pi 2. I needed to compile Tvheadend for ARMv7 and set it up on a MOIPro, so I opted to use Gentoo as a development machine for ARM. Regardless of the use case, if you follow these steps you’ll have a Gentoo Linux on an RPi2. …