Archive for August, 2007
Gentoo MythTV ebuilds moving to svn
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Gentoo MythTV package maintainers have changed how the ebuilds work. They used to download a small patch which would be applied on top of the tarball, but they are now changing to using svn directly. You can read a [...]
MythTV presentation at Google now available online
The presentation which Michael Still gave at Google on August 16th as part of Google’s Open Source Speaker series is now available for viewing online. It is embedded here below. The video is just short of an hour long and during that Michael is presenting MythTV Frontend, user jobs, MythWeb and also discussing some of [...]
Mythbuntu 7.10 Public Alpha 4 sneak peek
Public Alpha 4 is not available yet, in fact it is not so long ago Alpha 3 was announced, but there are some screenshots available of how Mythbuntu Control Center will look like in Alpha 4. They are on mythbuntu.org which David Morris has announced is now up and running again.
Forums open on scheduledirect.org
Schedule Direct has added forums and has also made an announcement about the current situation.
The most interesting info is that they are now just waiting for the lawyers to finish the terms of service and the privacy policy, then they should be ready to go live. And they will be ready before September 1st. Once [...]
Idea: Using twitter to monitor MythTV
If you are a Vodafone customer, then you should be able to use newly created tool MythSMS. It sends you an SMS and can be used with MythTV user jobs to notify you when a recording or transcoding has finished.
Very nice. I love it when tools are combined to create neat solutions. In this case [...]
MythTV presentation at Google
At Google they have all kinds of benefits, like dry-cleaning, fantastic food and ofcourse the bragging rights of working for one of the top brands in the world. Luckily they share some of the benefits - like their Open Source Speaker Series. You can watch onsite at the Google campus, or you can watch the [...]
Schedules direct announces pricing - 5$ a month but expected to drop soon
Schedules Direct has announced pricing for the electronic program guide listings which they have licenced from TMS.
The initial price will be $15 for three months. That may sound a bit steep, but this is just a safe price in case they don’t get the expected number of people to sign up. Remember, this is a [...]
mythbuntu.org is down
mythbuntu.org has been down since the weekend and it is still not up.
David Morris who is part of the Mythbuntu group tells you where you can find the iso until mythbuntu.org is up and running again.
MythTV Windows “Frontend” updated
MythTv Player is not an official MythTV Frontend, but definately much more convenient than a Samba connection.
It has been updated to 0.4.1. It’s just a bugfix where files where not gettings closed correctly.
MythTV Windows “Frontend” updated
MythTv Player is not an official MythTV Frontend, but definately much more convenient than a Samba connection.
It has been updated to 0.4.1. It’s just a bugfix where files where not gettings closed correctly.