MythTV News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When AppleTV was released it seemed like there was a new hack coming for it, every day. And it seemed pretty certain that a MythTV frontend would be presented fairly quickly.
But lately things have slowed down a little - […]

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This is actually about a week old, but I still want to point out that Benton Roberts has written a flexible perl script which you can use to convert video to iPod format, as well as other formats.
The script is used together with a “job description file” to do the actual work.
Take a look here.

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The title says it all - after a beta period, MythDora 4.0 was released two days ago.
The new release has a lot of nice new features:

Fedora Core 6
kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
New MythTV 0.20.1 fixes release, with default settings customized for MythDora
New install process, featuring the anaconda installer GUI, heavily customized for MythDora.
Four window managers are included - […]

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tvease.net have announced that they will be delivering a new powerful prebuild MythTV machine on June 15th.
The machine is called “Zodiac” and it is capable of 1080p output. It has two tuners and comes in a really nice HTPC case.
Probably the best part of this prebuild MythTV machine is in the software. Besides the “stock” […]

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A new page has been added to the MythTV wiki describing how to add FM radio playback to MythTV.
Although it will look like a plug-in, it is basically a hack which requires editing the theme files. But the end result looks great.
The howto requires a Hauppauge PVR-150 card.

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There is currently a lot of activity going into creating a page on the MythTV wiki describing the UPnP functionality. There is also a growing list of UPnP devices, with user reports of how well they work with MythTV.
Currently the list looks like this:

D-Link DSM 520
Denon AVR-4306
IO-Data LinkPlayer2
Buffalo PC-P3LWG/DVD
Galaxy 3500 […]

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Stewart Smith and Michael Still have written a book about MythTV called “Practical MythTV”. It has been available as preorder for a while, but now it seems the book has shipped.
It is available on amazon.com, and currently with a nice discount.

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MePo-wide was first released back in january. It is a widescreen theme which looks very professional.
It covers:

All core mythtv screens
MythMusic
MythVideo
MythGallery

You can get it here.

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