• MythTV release

    Current release: MythTV 0.23.1

    Development status: Roadmap
    Check out MythTV SVN for development of MythTV 0.24

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  • What is MythTV?

    MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
    It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).
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    MythTV is a free open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. It can be considered as a free and open source alternative to Tivo or Windows Media Center. It runs on various operating systems, primarily Linux/Mac/FreeBSD.

    History

    The MythTV project was started in April 2002 by Isaac Richards, who explained his motivation:
    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 DVR — 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 features
    • Pause, skip, and rewind live TV shows.
    • Completely automatic commercial detection and optional skipping.
    • Intelligently schedules recordings to avoid conflicts.
    • Interfaces with TV listing sources such as XMLTV or PSIP.
    • Interfaces with nonprofit subscription listings service Schedules Direct in the United States and Canada. Schedules Direct delivers the same Tribune Media Services listings data that TiVo and other video recorders use.
    • Supports ATSC, QAM, and DVB high-definition television.
    • Supports Xv, OpenGL, and VDPAU video output.
    • A backend server and frontend client architecture, allowing multiple frontend client machines to be remotely served content from one or more backend servers. A single computer can perform as both the frontend client and the backend server.
    • Plays recordings at an accelerated or decelerated rate, adjusting the audio pitch as necessary.
    • Schedule and administer various system functions using a web browser-based interface.
    • Controls a settop box using an infrared remote (IR blaster), or firewire.

    MythTV modules
    • MythVideo plays various video file formats and allows ripping DVDs
    • MythMusic a music player, jukebox, collection manager, and CD ripper
    • MythGallery online photo gallery manager
    • MythNews RSS feed news reader
    • MythWeather fetches weather forecasts - including weather radar - from the Internet
    • MythBrowser small web browser
    • MythGame frontend for game console emulators
    • MythWeb controls MythTV from a remote web browser
    • MythArchive DVD burner
    • UPnP AV MediaServer v1.0 compliant server: share media files with UPnP-clients

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    azza

    doh! Sorry, found it... The desktop was only looking at one category of recordings. I had to go Settings-Playback-Recording Groups (p5 of playback settings)

    Where are my recordings

    azza Today 05:04 AM Go to last post
    SchneiderIS

    Do you have stability problems with your 0.23 configuration?

    I find that 0.23 is much more unstable than past versions. Does anyone else?

    Poll: How many people have stability issues with 0.23 frontends?

    SchneiderIS Today 05:00 AM Go to last post
    SchneiderIS

    Unfortunately with the changes made to this site the logs (code blocks) are overrunning the blocks.

    I to am having problems with stability

    Live TV failing intermittently

    SchneiderIS Today 04:55 AM Go to last post