I have just finished setting up a large RAID 5 array on my home media server and I wanted to monitor the array so I can replace any faulty drives. Smartctl does a good job of warning me about any disk errors, but I also wanted to monitor any errors from the array itself. I found that there is a daemon in Fedora call mdmonitor, that will do the job for me. I tried starting the server, but did not receive any feedback from the service. No errors, no start or fail message. I did some digging and found that I needed to set the following parameter in the /etc/mdadm.conf .

MAILADDR user@example.com

This file is usually created from a mdadm –detail –scan > /etc/mdadm.conf, and needs this parameter added manually.

I had to reinstall my Linux server that runs my MythTV media server and wanted to save all the programs that had not been seen. I had a cron job that made pretty symbolic links to the MythTV nuv files (they are mpg 2 files). The links were the data and title of the show recorded instead of just a date code, and had the extension of mpg instead of nuv.
I then used these names to run through mencoder to convert into xvid and put them in my video folder. Here is a small batch program that did the dirty.

for i in *.mpg;
do /usr/bin/mencoder /mnt/store/tv/pretty/$i \
-ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts \
bitrate=678 -o /home/mythtv/public/videos/movies/$i.avi;
done

Now this is cool.


Instead of buying the shows from iTunes. Record them with Myth TV and then have them converted and ready to put onto your iPod Video.

http://www.myth2ipod.com

Mona, can I buy an new iPod?

I was thinking of doing this, very cool.
a Podcast rss feed reader iPodder for MythTV. I have them downloading to my Video and Audio shares, so Internet content delivered automatically to my Entertainment server

How long will it before I cancel my TV Cable and just get all my content from the Internet. Right now I torrent the Sci-Fi Friday shows Stargate SG1 and Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5609
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I am having problems with the mythbackend stalling on me and I wanted to monitor and restat when neccessary. I Googled around ang found a script made by David A. Mason (damason at redshift.com)

I took these and modified them a bit.
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