MythPyWii Video
Here’s the short version:
Despite having got up at 3:30am this morning and being extremely tired, it’s been quite a good day. I finished setting up the media centre, hooked it up to the TV and got it working, sound and all. It seems the PC doesn’t run video smoothly at 1080p (not suprisingly, it was bought a good few years ago on a budget, it’s an onboard graphics card too!) – but that’s OK. I dropped it down to ~720p and it seems to run great.
It’s completely diskless, it’s only purpose being to play MythTV videos from my main mythbackend. It might find itself playing some DVDs at some point also, we’ll see.
I installed MythPyWii on it, using my new MythPyWii Install Instructions, which I wrote today and you can find here. (I also made a page detailing the controls, here. Both links can also be found in my sidebar.) Everything went smoothly, so I made the video I had been promising. This is my first time *ever* doing any video editing, and this video was all filmed in one take with no rehersals, so please bear with me! The longer version is better if you need help during the install/etc, and is linked to on the instructions page.
Here goes, I know it’s a bit long… perhaps I will make a scripted version sometime which is shorter:
For anyone wondering, I used “Kino” to edit the video. It’s OK, took me a little while to figure it out. “Add text to” is a filter under FX called “Tilter” – Text fILTER, I guess… How intuitive… 
Tags: Controls, Instructions, MythPyWii, MythTV, Video, Video editing
September 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
great stuff benjie, look forward tp seeing what you make nexty. be sure to checkout…
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
…as he alo has excellent videos on how to get motion tracking in place using wii remote.
September 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Sweeeeet. Now if only I had a Wii and MythTV
September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 am
This looks great- just what i have been looking for.
I ran into one glitch I was hoping you could glance at. (I am a novice at best)
While running the script, i get the following:
sam@dylan:~$ python Desktop/myth_py_wii.py
Please press 1&2 on the wiimote…
Connected…
Connected
error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel (:(111, ‘Connection refused’) [/usr/lib/python2.5/asyncore.py|read|68] [/usr/lib/python2.5/asyncore.py|handle_read_event|388] [Desktop/myth_py_wii.py|handle_read|52] [/usr/lib/python2.5/asyncore.py|recv|342])
This is on a Mythbuntu 8.04 system
Thanks!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:01 am
nevermind. I figured out the problem, my ability to follow directions!
I saw the message to press 1&2, and figured I should do that before starting the frontend. Now its working great, and you, are officially my hero.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Sam, glad you figured it out. Sorry the instructions are so poor, I shall update the script right now! Enjoy! And let me know if there is anything you feel should be in mythpywii that isn’t already. (For example, I haven’t worked out what I can use the other axis of the wiimote for, plus shouldn’t something cool happen if someone vigorously shakes the wiimote?)
January 24th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hi,
MythPyWii is working just fine on Fedora.
I published an rpm for installing it and
pulling the appropriate dependencies.
The link will be here (in a few days):
http://atrpms.net/name/mythpiwii
For now, it can be downloaded from here:
http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mythpywii-1.0-1.fc10.noarch.rpm
I did not know what was the current version, so I used 1.0
Thanks.