MaemoMyth - a frontend for MythTV on Nokia N800

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For a long time there has been work on the underlying technologies enabling this (gmyth and GMythStream), and now it pays off.
MaemoMyth is a simple MythTV frontend for the Nokia N800 Linux tablet. The features so far are: LiveTV […]

Small LinuxMCE update

“A new small update is available. It contains few fixes for Update Media, MythTV Plug-in and the Launch Manager.”
This is the statement on the LinuxMCE website. No version number or detailed changelog is available.

CT TV Listings - an alternative to Schedules Direct

CT TV Listings is now providing U.S. electronic guide data for MythTV as well as other PVR applications. CT TV Listings is spun off from CTpvr Media Center. And while data is available subscription free if you buy the media center software, it is also available for a fee for users of other PVR’s, such […]

Schedules Direct lowers price yet again

Just one week after the price was lowered from $15 for three months to $15 for six months, it is now lowered to $20 for one year. That is also the goal which was set up originally, but I think no one expected this to happen so quickly.
At the same time it is now also […]

New NVIDIA display driver - 100.14.19

NVIDIA has released a new version of their display driver for Linux.
The most interesting items are:

New GPUs supported: Quadro FX 290, FX 370, FX 570 and FX 1700.
A performance regression on GeForce 8 GPUs fixed.
XvMC support on GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a GPUs with PureVideo support fixed.
Improved power management support with GeForce […]

First openChrome official release - 0.3.0

It is not really clear what has changed for this version, but at least it says in the release notes that the name you need to specify in xorg.conf has changed from ‘via’ to ‘openchrome’.
The supported features are:

Free modesetting for Unichrome and Unichrome Pro chipset.
VBE modesetting for everything not natively supported.
TV-out support.
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New MythTV plugin will enable python based plugins

Hold your horses - MythPython is not exactly ready yet, but it has been discussed on the MythTV developer mailinglist.
Basically it will make it easy to develop new plugins (if you know python…)
I think this will be great. There are lots of stuff you can integrate MythTV with, and making it easy for people to […]

MythTV introduction slideshow

There is a youtube video available, which is basically a slideshow showcasing MythTV. It is almost four minutes long, and if you have never seen MythTV before, it is a good teaser.
The video is actually pretty old, but I found it on Moosy Blog and I just wanted to mention all the great MythTV documentation […]

Weekly builds go live for Mythbuntu

Two days ago Mythbuntu started their weekly builds of the MythTV release-0-20-fixes branch.
Actually there are also weekly builds of trunk, but if you go for that, be aware that you will not receive any support from the Ubuntu MythTV team.
There is information on how to set up the weekly builds here.

Schedules Direct cuts price in half

Schedules Direct has just announced that they are lowering their prices. It used to be $15 for three months, now it is $15 for six months. All existing customers have received three extra months of service, plus a bonus of one day for each day they have been a member.
The long term goal is to […]

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