MythTV Windows port receiving lots of attention lately

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have mentioned the ongoing effort trying to port the MythTV frontend to run on Windows. It is still receiving lots of attention and lately a lot of documentation has been produced. It is available on the mythtv.org wiki.
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New nVidia 169.07 Linux driver has better mode settings

nVidia has released a new stable version of their Linux driver - 169.07.
For MythTV users the most interesting part in the release note is this:

Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.

What this actually means is being discussed on the MythTV users mailinglist.
Here are a couple of quotes:
Well, for me, this driver is definitely […]

New version of Maemo MythTV client is coming

It will feature Program Guide and the ability to schedule recordings.
Read more about it on Smart Home Blog.

MythTV featured in Full Circle Magazine

To be more precise there is a step-by-step install of Mythbuntu, this is after all the Ubuntu community magazine.
It is in the December edition, also known as issue 8.

MePo-wide-0.42 MythTV Theme available

Added support MythFlix.
Updated MythNews.
Removed duplicate icons to to improve memory utilization.
Changes to all program listing screens.

You can download it here.

MythTV 0.21 will be released in February 2008

It has been a long wait… MythTV 0.20 was released on September 11, 2006. In 2007, 0.20.1 and 0.20.2 were released. And now it sounds like MythTV 0.21 will be released in February 2008.
So what do we have to look forward to?  This is a list of the major features slated for 0.21:

Added Watch […]

MythTV SVN dropping support for MySQL v3 and v4

Just announced on the MythTV developer mailinglist. Starting from Tuesday, December 11, you need to use MySQL 5, if you are running MythTV SVN.
The upgrade should be no problem, since compatibility issues were resolved a long time ago. But of course you should still back up your database before upgrading.
If you are running MythTV 0.20-fixes, […]

Full MythTV frontend for Windows

For whatever reason the MythTV frontend is not available for Windows. It is meant to run on Linux and it also runs on MacOS. Windows users have had to settle for limited functionality in either “MythTv player“, WinMyth or Tapeworm. They will let you watch your recordings, and also LiveTV (not Tapeworm), but you […]

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