{"id":31,"date":"2006-03-24T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-03-24T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T13:15:47","slug":"31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Another New Toy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">New toys are always fun! The latest is a small media viewer that I scored off ebay for a really good price. I&#8217;ve had my eye on one for a while, but they were always going for more then I was willing to pay. But then one popped up with not much interest in it, and I got it for a lot less than some of the same units that had auctions finishing just before and after this one. Odd, but I&#8217;m not complaining!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The unit is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauppauge.com\/html\/mediamvp_datasheet.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hauppauge MVP<\/a>, which is a tiny little box that gets plugged into the network, and\u00a0can be used to output movies, pictures and music to a TV. I&#8217;m using it to be able to watch the programmes that we&#8217;ve recorded on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MythTV<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=3\">superbox<\/a>\u00a0up in the bedroom.\u00a0 A much better idea than trying to sneak a proper PC in there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font size=\"2\">It downloads an operating system that has been built to connect to MythTV, <a href=\"http:\/\/mvpmc.sourceforge.net\/idx.php?pg=main\" target=\"_blank\">MVPMC<\/a> , from a server and away we go. The technical stuff around getting it to work is on <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=30\">this<\/a> page .<\/font><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mvpmc.sourceforge.net\/idx.php?pg=main\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mvpmc.sourceforge.net\/idx.php?pg=main\" \/><\/font><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mvpmc.sourceforge.net\/idx.php?pg=main\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New toys are always fun! The latest is a small media viewer that I scored off ebay for a really good price. I&#8217;ve had my eye on one for a while, but they were always going for more then I was willing to pay. But then one popped up with not much interest in it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}