Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Kobski
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve previously linked to a script which can download movie trailers from apple.com and add them to MythVideo, but now there is an unofficial MythTV plugin, which will give you access to the trailers as well.
You still have to […]
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Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Kobski
Justin Hornsby has added a guide as well as some code on the MythTV wiki, describing how to export recordings from MythTV to your iPod.
It integrates nicely with MythTV, so that you can start it as a user job. You still have to manually load the generated video on to your iPod. I like how […]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Kobski
It used to be called version 1.1, but since each release will be tightly connected to a corresponding Kubunbu release, they have renamed it, so that this one will be 0704 and later there will be a 0710.
This is release candidate 1 and if no big issues show up, 0704 will be released July 30th..
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Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Kobski
Version 0.4.0 of MythTv Player was just announced. It is a small upgrade from version 0.3.6, but 0.4.0 is also the first stable release since 0.2.1.
MythTv Player is not the official MythTV Frontend, but an independent project. It is still under heavy development and features such as Live TV are still missing. But you can […]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by Kobski
For those who are missing the MythWeather module, which is currently broken, it might be interesting to take a look at the discussion the developers are having at the moment.
For one thing, mythweather-revamp is now just MythWeather. Also, it will be based on scripts, which can easily be fixed, extended, added… So the challenge is […]
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Posted on July 21st, 2007 by Kobski
Due to concerns over trademark infringement, the group heading the effort to implement a replacement for Zap2It Labs, has changed name to “Schedules Direct“. They already registered the domain and are redirecting from the old one.
Also, a lot of people have volunteered to help, so they now have some candidates to pick between for the […]
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Posted on July 14th, 2007 by Kobski
The script, which was released recently, has been updated.
A little more meta data is added to MythVideo, and also there has been some minor bug fixes.
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Kobski
Easy now - the solution is not ready yet, but it has been announced that Easy TV Data has been formed and that they are
“actively working on a solution that will provide what we hope will be a smooth transition away from Zap2it Labs by the September 1 deadline”.
The members of the board are:
Isaac […]
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Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Kobski
The widescreen MythTV theme MePo-wide has been updated.
Changes:
Adds clock to the home screen.
Provides support for ticket #2426, which is essentially moving the end of recording prompt to the OSD. This means you’ll be able to rewind if you accidently fast forwarded to the end of the recording.
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Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Kobski
Linus Torvalds has released the latest version of the Linux Kernel - 2.6.22.
So what’s in it for a MythTV user? Here are some of the highlights:
This is the first kernel to have the ivtv driver included (0.10.x).
New wireless stack. The actual drivers will have to be updated. Some distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora are already […]
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