It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new release from the Open Source team behind MythTV, but they’ve gone out and suprised everyone by released MythTV 0.19:
The major changes in this release are:
* LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching
* Signal Monitoring for DVB […]
Willy Dobbe has provided a good list of “Useful MythTV” links that’s a good starting point for anyone contemplating setting up a MythTV box. Personally, I think he missed the most important one of all. Click on the bottle for more
KnoppMyth has released a new version of their MythTV/ linux distro.
Some of the highlights:
* First KRP-aware release.
* Integrated KRP logic into installation and configuration scripts.
* Dragon installation and configuration 99% automated.
* Added system-independent auto-detection and configuration.
* More LIRC remotes auto-detected and configured.
* Channel icons now download automatically.
* MythWeather locale setting improved or autoconfigured, depending […]
From BYOPVR:
“MythDora is a FC3/OS with MythTV-0.18.1 all on one CD. This CD will install on all kinds of PVR builds. I’ve repackaged the FC3 ATI rpm’s to allow for TV-Out. I’ve also packaged the (Thomas Winischhofer) SiS driver in rpm format to work especially for MythDora. Of course you can’t leave out the Nvidia […]
Pretty decent install guide over at Grounstate here on installing MythTV with Mandriva. Got to give this one a shot, Mandriva (previously Mandrake) is one of the most user friendly Linux distros out there.
They use the following setup to get things working:
- C3 box used as both frontend and backend
- one big SATA hard […]
An admission, although trying once before to get the famed MythTV working (using Knoppmyth) I’ve been wanting to try it again ever since. Coupled with my new house being finished in around 3 months time with data points where most of the TV points are as well, and in the corner of the garage for […]
Interesting review on MythTV over at Newsforge, particularly the comments on how easy it is to tweak the Linux stuff. My personal experience is the opposite, I haven’t had to use a command prompt in any depth in over 10 years and I panick at the thought now. Any, have a read, not a bad […]
O’Reillys first guide to a MythBox, doesn’t seem like a lot of costs are spared but interesting in the pursuit of Linux compatible hardware.
Former TechTV’er Kevin Rose presents a good video guide on how to build a MythTV computer:Episide 2 of the new show site Systm. To view the video though you’ll need a Bittorrent client like Azureus
I like MythTV but I still struggle with Linux, although things are getting easier as installers etc become more the […]
