MythTV
MythTV is a GPL open source application for Linux designed to allow any computer (that meets the specified minimum requirements) to function as a personal video recorder.
MythTV 0.19 has been officialy announced by Isaac Richards on Sunday, February 12 @ 01:16:19 UTC.
MythTV 0.19
There are numerous changes and bug fixes from MythTV 0.18 to MythTV 0.19, which was tagged as MythTV SVN changeset 8925.The major changes in MythTV 0.19 are:
- LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching.
- Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders.
- Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress.
- Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings.
- Channel changes can be made across tuners without changing tuners manually first.
- New popup keyboard simplifies setup using remote.
- Preview schedule changes when making adjustments to recording schedules.
- Added ability to control MythFrontend through a telnet socket.
- Closed captioning support on PVR-250/350 (but not 150/500) cards, DVB subtitles, and other cards supporting VBI information.
- New theme (MythCenter), new plugin (MythFlix), and new contributed programs (mythlcdserver, mythwelcome)
- Signficantly overhauled MythWeb, please read the README for details and installation instructions.
- Added a basic internal DVD player, removing the need to use Xine or Mplayer.
- mythfilldatabase (and specifically the North American listings grabber which retrieves data from DataDirect) has been modified to respect Zap2It Labs' 'recommended download hour' suggestion to reduce the load on Z2L's servers.
MythTV History
The project was started in April 2002 by Isaac Richards. Richards explains his motivation to begin the project on its website:
"I got tired of the rather low quality cable box that AT&T Broadband provides with their digital cable service. It's slow to change channels, ridden with ads, and the program guide is a joke. So, I figured it'd be fun to try and build a replacement. Yes, I could have just bought a TiVo, but I wanted to have more than just a PVR - I want a web browser built in, a mail client, maybe some games. Basically, I want the mythical convergence box that's been talked about for a few years now."
MythTV has become a very mature project. As of Feb 2006, the project was in a very usable state at version 0.19. Development is coordinated on a publicly accessible SVN server.
MythTV
MythTV is a GPL open source application for Linux designed to allow any computer (that meets the specified minimum requirements) to function as a personal video recorder.- MythTV Current Release: MythTV 0.21 (8 March 2008)
- Development Status:
Check out MythTV SVN for development of MythTV 0.22 and the MythTV 0.21.1 fixes branch.
