Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Kobski
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Linux.com has a great, short article about these three MythTV centric distributions. It covers the installation process and compares the running systems.
The short conclusion is that currently MythDora is ahead, but Mythbuntu shows promise and should be checked again […]
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Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Kobski
MiniMyth now includes MythTV 0.20.2. You can see the complete contents of the new MiniMyth release here.
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Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Kobski
MythTV 0.20.2 was just released and already packages are available for a wide range of distributions.
MythTV packages are now available for Ubuntu and thus MythBuntu. Support is available for Gutsy as well as Feisty and Edgy.
New ebuilds are also available in portage for Gentoo.
There is a new MacOS PPC frontend
New packages are available in packman […]
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Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Kobski
ITWeek has a fairly long article covering the options you have for creating an HTPC using Linux. MythTV get a fair bit of the article.
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Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Kobski
Schedules Direct has finished the testing and is now ready to take memberships. This was announced yesterday. You can sign up here.
MythTV 0.20.2 has been released and this release supports Schedules Direct. If you are not ready to upgrade yet, you can use XMLTV with Schedules Direct. There is a script available here.
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Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Kobski
This version primarily adds support for guide data from Schedules Direct, but there are other changes as well:
 Reduced memory consumption
Faster startup of frontend
UPnP fixes
MythWeather is still not fixed, so it is disabled.
Here is the complete 0.20.2 release note.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Kobski
On PVRblog.com a new series has been started. It will be about “building your perfect home theater“.
Part 1 has been posted and it is very nice. It covers building your wishlist, evaluating constraints, budget and has a section with links to websites where you can do your research before you buy.
I have been holding on […]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Kobski
Michael Still has posted the slides from his MythTV presentation at Google.
As mentioned earlier, the video of the presentation is here.
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Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Kobski
There has been quite some confusion over which MythTV version is actually the latest release as it is evident on this page (it is 0.20.1). But if you look closely on that same page you’ll see that 0.20.2 will be released within a week. The release notes for 0.20.2 have also been updated.
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Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Kobski
This morning Schedules Direct let in the first 100 users to “kick the tires and break things”. And break things they did. There are problems validating zip codes, and so the beta is currently stopped while they figure out what is wrong.
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