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KnoppMyth R6 to be released at SCALE 7x

KnoppMyth is going through some big changes. The next release, R6, will be unveiled at SCALE 7x. KnoppMyth R6 will change name to LinHES (Linux Home Entertainment System) and also it will no longer be based on Knoppix and Debian, but instead be based on Arch Linux. You should read this interview with Cecil Watson, to get [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:28:57 +0000
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Mythdora 10.21 released

I have been informed by Jason Roysdon that Mythdora 10.21 was released on January 7th. It is based on Fedora 10 and includes MythTV 0.21-fixes. From the release notes: There are some major changes for us in this release. We’ve moved away from the Xdialog installer and into a single firefox configuration for the initial system setup. This [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:55:20 +0000
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MythTV gets a new website

The official mythtv.org usually doesn’t see a lot of updates, except for the wiki of course. But a few days ago the site was changed completely. It looks much better, and navigates better too. It has been a long time coming as you can see from this old post. Anyway - check it out. No related posts. No related posts.
Posted by Kobski on the Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:22:11 +0000
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Mythbuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 released

This is based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope alpha 3. This means that it is kernel 2.6.28 and Xorg server 1.6. Also it includes MythTV 0.21-fixes. Ubuntu 9.04 is slated for release on April 23rd 2009 and Mythbuntu usually comes out a few days after that. There is a long list of known issues - after all, this [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:08:33 +0000
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Introducing the new MythTV book/wiki

“Practical MythTV” was published back in May 2007. It was written by Michael Still and Steward Smith. Things change, and quickly in the world of technology. So of course such a book cannot stay up-to-date. That’s why the authors have decided to update the book and to do it online as a wiki. You can read the [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:17:08 +0000
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Schedules Direct looking into international expansion

Schedules Direct is the company which was formed about 18 months ago to step in and supply US and Canadian MythTV users with schedule data after Tribune Media Services announced that they would be shutting down their free service. Now Schedules Direct is looking into expanding the service to Europe and/or Latin America. But sensibly, first they [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:50:51 +0000
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Three things to look forward to in MythTV 0.22

I have no idea when MythTV 0.22 is coming out, but I know that there are at least three very nice features coming in that next release. MythUI. The UI in MythTV 0.22 will be based on QT4 and MythUI and will allow for much more advanced themes with transitions and translucence. Hauppauge HD-PVR support. If you [...] No related posts.
Posted by Kobski on the Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:26:21 +0000
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Vote for MythTV on Lifehacker

Lifehacker is running a poll on the best DVR application. Of course MythTV is listed and among the competition is TiVo, GB-PVR, BeyondTV, SageTV and Windows Media Center. Now, go and vote! No related posts. No related posts.
Posted by Kobski on the Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:22 +0000
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XMLTV 0.5.54 released

Changes (directly from the changelog): tv_grab_be: removed due to source site blocking tv_grab_eu_epgdata: should now work on win32 tv_grab_id: add 3 more backends tv_grab_na_dd: add Movie and Sports category tv_grab_uk_rt: add support for Sky Arts 2 tv_check: add –season-reset switch to change everything to ‘title-only’ And of some bugfixes and polish. Here is the release note and [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:57:38 +0000
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NVidia releases 180.11 beta driver with VDPAU improvements

This is exciting for those people who are already running the combination of a GeForce 8+ card with MythTV SVN/Trunk and 180.06 or 180.08 Nvidia drivers. Those are the components needed to get completely GPU hardware accelerated H.264 video playback. Now there is a new version of the driver from NVidia and with some interesting changes: [...] Related posts:

Posted by Kobski on the Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:31:03 +0000
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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.

To learn more about MythTV and its history, click here.

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.