Ubuntu execute python script at logon as root after user logon

I’ve installed MythBuntu on a computer. MythTV doesn’t support the Asus AI remote IR receiver so i searched for possible solutions. One of them was a Python script that acts as a bridge between a terminal window and and the focused application. It needs to be executed by a regular user bjorn with root privileges … Read more

Any way to disable Grand Central Dispatch and fallback to older way of doing things

As per issue for MythTV backend at: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7582 when running MythTV backend on MacOS X 10.6.2, it crashes with: BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Do not close random Unix descriptors This message appears to come from Grand Central Dispatch. Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 Crashed Thread: 1 Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager Application Specific … Read more

MythTV audio/video out of sync (audio ahead ~500ms) since upgrade to lucid

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, and mythtv now has an audio/video sync issue. Specifically, the audio is consistently about half a second ahead of the video. This is a playback issue, rather than recording, because it occurs on old recordings that were previously fine, as well as on Live TV and on recordings … Read more