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Sun Nov 10 21:59:58 2013 GMT: Britten War Requiem @ Royal Albert Hall
Sat Nov 09 23:12:42 2013 GMT: Chroma / The Human Seasons / The Rite of Spring @ Royal Opera House
Mon Nov 04 21:24:47 2013 GMT: Switching Web Browser
As Opera can't be bothered to develop a Linux version of their Chromium/Blink-based browser, I have now switched my default browser to Chromium. It's actually quite usable, as long as you use a few essential extensions like Adblock Plus and Referer Control. Let's see how it goes...
Fri Nov 01 23:51:32 2013 GMT: Les Vêpres siciliennes @ Royal Opera House
Just been to a performance of Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Royal Opera House.
Sun Oct 27 20:18:43 2013 GMT: Scripting a Digital Radio
So as an update to my previous post, I have now written a Python script to glue all the parts of the digital radio together: see radioctl.py and lircrc.
That's really quite cool - all I am doing in the Python script is starting a few sub-processes and glueing them together. Seems to work quite well so far and it's already fully scriptable via socat. (btw, I had to recompile ts2es with a smaller buffer size to reduce the delay when switching channels).
Sun Oct 27 13:07:45 2013 GMT: Receiving Digital Radio on the Beaglebone
I am trying to use my Beaglebone Black as a digital radio and it mostly works now, although there were a few complications to get to that point.
Ok, so got a cheap USB DVB-T stick and managed to get it working on my Laptop with MPlayer relatively quickly. However, when trying it on the Beaglebone, the kernel just froze - turns out that updating the kernel to 3.12.0-rc6 (from 3.8.13) and setting coherent_pool=4M fixed that.
With that mplayer now seemed to work almost fine - only problem is that after some time when a frame gets lots and there is a buffer underrun mplayer doesn't recover at all and the sound starts-and-stops every second.
Ok, maybe there is another option... Yes, there is dvbstream which can be used in combination with ts2es and some mp2/mp3 player. Well, except that Ubuntu's mpg123 doesn't work at all on ARM - works on AMD64, though. But there are other options available: for the moment I have settled with madplay and aplay - so my very Unix-like solution now consists of a four-program pipe: dvbstream, ts2es, madplay and aplay. :-)
Next thing now is to look at making it a bit more user-friendly and look at why ts2es has such a big buffer (introducing a multi-second delay). Ohh, and maybe I should look at how to use the remote control...
Sat Oct 26 22:27:58 2013 GMT: Don Quixote @ Royal Opera House
I have just been to a performance of Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House which was quite good. BTW, earlier this month I also went to a performance of Elektra but didn't mention it as I wanted to forget about it as soon as possible (yes, it was that bad...)
Sat Sep 28 19:40:05 2013 GMT: Chicago C++ Committee Meeting Voting Session
Sat Sep 28 02:23:49 2013 GMT: C++14 Update from the Chicago Meeting
Tue Sep 24 11:37:34 2013 GMT: Chicago
Sat Sep 14 22:03:37 2013 GMT: Turandot @ Royal Opera House
Mon Sep 09 20:38:12 2013 GMT: Seven Sisters
