MythTV News
MythTV News slowly crawling back to life
If you have visited mythtvnews.com within the last 28 hours, you will have noticed that things have been all wrong. It all started with an email from my hosting provider. They had shut down mythtvnews.com because it was using too many resources on the server which was shared with other websites. Although bringing down the server [...]Posted by on the @ hu, 02 Oct 2008 20:15:56 +0000
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Mythbuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 - be careful
Mythbuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 was released nine days ago. Normally testing alpha software is risky business, at least for your data which you should always backup before the testing begins. But this time it seems that even hardware is at risk. As Engadget reports, there is a bug in some of the Ubuntu Alpha’s which will [...]Posted by on the Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:54:19 +0000
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MythTV covered by Systm on Revision3
If you want to hear about your options when building a MythTV system, you can check out episode 64 of Systm on Revision3. Actually the show aired back in August, but I only just realized right now.Posted by on the Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:39:47 +0000
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Setting up Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard for MythTV
Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of this Logitech keyboard. And now on the MythTV wiki there is a new page describing how you can get the most out of your diNovo keyboard, including how to set up those extra buttons and the “mouse track-pad”.Posted by on the Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:06:29 +0000
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Movie poster downloads from IMDB lowres? - the fix is here
If you are using MythVideo, you know that you can download metadata and movie posters from IMDB.com. Apparently the layout on IMDB has been changed recently. This breaks the download code in MythTV. It doesn’t break it completely - you will typically get a poster with a lower resolution. The fix has already been checked in, [...]Posted by on the Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:53:11 +0000
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XMLTV 0.5.53 released
This is a small release. The changes can be seen here: tv_grab_is: minor fix to midnight handling tv_grab_na_dd: add auto-config config file option tv_grab_na_icons: adjust to site changes tv_grab_ar: now supports 2 data sources tv_grab_uk_rt: improve episode numbering tv_grab_huro: fix –offset problem and data source changes tv_grab_eu_epgdata: added category support, stop times, age-rating, more! *NOTE* fix to _eu_epggdata episode num will break duplicate [...]Posted by on the Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:15:09 +0000
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MythNetTV - release 5
Whoa. Not long ago I reported on release 3 of MythNetTV and now release 5 is here. According to the developer: Release 5 is by far the best tested release of MythNetTV yet, with both unit tests and several users working quite closely with me to resolve problems found in the wild. The combined change log of [...]Posted by on the Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:21:11 +0000
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MythBuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 has been released
This is based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) which has a release date of October 30th. The release notes mentions that: The guided partitoner in the installer will now default the recordings partition to XFS instead of EXT3. Lots of bug fixes across the board in Ubiquity and Mythbuntu Control Centre. Several MythTV bugs that were sent upstream [...]Posted by on the Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:36:01 +0000
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Dark Knight Batman theme
I’m going to see Dark Knight tonight, so I just thought I would share this new MythTV theme with you. It is 4:3 based unfortunately. The download link is here.Posted by on the @ ue, 12 Aug 2008 09:37:12 +0000
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Nice looking frontend candidate from Dell
Dell just recently announced the Studio Hybrid PC which actually looks quite nice. The specs are nice too. Specs: Nice and compact HDMI port Slot-load DVD Intel dual core CPUs Intel X3100 graphics Gigabit ethernet Starts at $499 Unfortunately the PC comes bundled with Windows Vista, so you are paying for something which you will not be using…Posted by on the @ ue, 12 Aug 2008 09:28:46 +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.
