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 0.20.2 has been formally released as MythTV 0.20.2 on Friday, 24 August 2007.
MythTV 0.20.2
These are the changes since MythTV 0.20.1:Updated through revision 14282
- Support for SchedulesDirect including caching and multiple MythTV video sources per SD lineup
- Reduced mythfrontend memory consumption by up to 75% depending on theme and resolution.(N.B. Ranges from 0% with Iulius to 75% with MythCenter)
- Faster startup of mythfrontend and mythtv-setup from changes to theme prescaling.
- Improved default theme images with better scaling and anti-aliasing
- Backported XMLTV changes to help former Zap2It users switch to a new grabber
- Improved --version output, including the branch name.
- Entire UPnP stack from trunk backported to address numerous UPnP problems
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.