MythTV iPhone remote app ready

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MyMote is the name of the application and it has just been announced that it is available. Well, availability can be a bit of a problem here to begin with. Apple has to approve each iPhone application and although […]

Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Released

Lots of changes, but probably the most interesting changes for MythTV builder are these:

Initial Radeon R500 support
Support for Intel G45 chipset
Support added for Hauppauge HVR-850, HVR-900, HVR-950 and HVR-1200

XMLTV 0.5.52 released

Here is the changelog for this new version:
tv_grab_uk_rt: lots of improvements.. should upgrade
tv_grab_re: better season/episode number handling
tv_grab_be: responding to source site changes
tv_grab_fr: better title detection
tv_grab_huro: now generates stop times
tv_grab_na_dtv: responding to source site changes
tv_grab_pt: responding to source site changes
tv_grab_za: improve episode tags
not working, removed: tv_grab_il, tv_grab_nl_wolf
And of some bugfixes and polish.
More info available here.

KnoppMyth 5.5 released

It has been a long time since KnoppMyth was last updated (Spetember 2007), but now the new version is ready. R5.5 is also called “Bone Marrow” and you can read why here. Nice going, Cecil!
Here is a list of some of the important changes:

MythTV 0.21-fixes
Kernel 2.6.23-chw-4
IVTV 1.2.0
ALSA 1.0.16
Nvidia drivers: 173.14.09, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04.
Updated video drivers […]

Roku Netflix Player - potential $99 MythFrontend?

Roku Labs has just released some source code for their $100 Netflix streaming device. Such a move has got to start the thought: Can it be hacked to become a potential MythTV Frontend?
The device is able to play back HD content (1080i/720p) although the currently available content from Netflix is only SD. It has HDMI […]

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