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The HT Guys talk about their MythTV setup on episode 183 of their podcast.
The MythTV setup they have built is based on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.5 GHz and two pcHDTV 5500 ATSC Tuners.
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The first non-beta version of MythNetTV has been released.
MythNetTV is a command line tool you can use to download videos via RSS feeds, and have them appear as recordings in MythTV.
MythNetTV also handles transcoding via MPlayer/MEncoder, so you can save the videos in the format you prefer.
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Integrating movie trailers into MythTV has always been high on my wishlist for MythTV. If you feel the same way, then I recommend you should try the Apple Movie Trailers download script which was just announced.
The script will download all the trailers on apple.com, but the really neat thing is that it will also download […]
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Maybe you didn’t even notice, but actually all the very nice MythTV themes from Justin Hornsby were removed from his website in the last couple of days.
Trying to access one of the themes, such as BlooTube or ProjectGrayhem, just resulted in a big graphic saying “Deleted”.
Now however, the themes are back online, which should make […]
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Michael Still, author of “Practical MythTV” is providing a nice analysis of the likely outcome of the pending Zap2It Labs shutdown. His basic message is: “Don’t panic!”
I agree with him, and of the four options he lists, I believe the XMLTV screen scraper to be the most likely outcome.
In another post on his blog he […]
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Tribune Media Services has announced that they will no longer provide free EPG data through Zap2it Labs after September 1st.
Here is part of the announcement:
“For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the […]
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Michael Still, the coauthor of “Practical MythTV” has written a nice howto use the parental filter of MythTV.
So if you have kids and you want to prevent them from accidently watching a horror movie or even just the news, then follow his howto. It even has screenshots!
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The very professionally looking Blootube-wide theme for MythTV has been updated. According to the artist behind it, it is now “shinier and brighter”. Blootube-wide is a 16:9 widescreen theme, but there is also a 4:3 version available, although it was not updated this time.
If you are strained for memory, there is also a less demanding […]
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Mike Chin from Silent PC Review went to Computex and writes about the new cases on display.
I especially like the new cases from Silverstone.
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