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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 […]

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I have written a number of posts here in the past about AppleTV. Lately the procedure for getting a MythTV frontend running on AppleTV has become much more streamlined, so I just thought I would summarize…
There is a new page on the MythTV wiki describing how you can use Gentoo Linux on AppleTV. Gentoo Linux […]

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I’ve had a few posts in the past about MythTV on AppleTV. They have all been about a solution where AppleTV is running OS X or whatever the stock AppleTV OS is called.
The other option is of course to have AppleTV run Linux and then run the MythTV frontend on that.
From what I have seen, […]

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The Linux Action Show, is covering different PVR options in their latest podcast - episode 48. Not exactly a complete roundup, but still…
First up is LinuxMCE 1.1 beta. They compare that to Vista Media Center and make some comments on AppleTV.
In the end they seem to prefer a pure MythTV install.

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Cult of Mac has found a video on YouTube with a demo of AppleTV running the MythTV frontend.
On mythtvnews.com, we have written about this here, here and here.
The guy on the video states that he did not crack the AppleTV open to remove the harddisk, as it was previously neccessary to do. Instead he used […]

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Continuing the saga on getting the MythTV Frontend on AppleTV, there is now an entry on the official MythTV wiki describing howto install MythTV on AppleTV.
As of May 21st, the page states that it is still a work in progress.

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As I wrote the other day, Neil Raymond was trying to get the MythTV frontend running on AppleTV, but failing. Not so anymore!
There are not a lot of details yet about how Neil managed to get it running, but the announcement is in this post on the MythTV users mailinglist
So far only SD playback has […]

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When AppleTV was released it seemed like there was a new hack coming for it, every day. And it seemed pretty certain that a MythTV frontend would be presented fairly quickly.
But lately things have slowed down a little - appletvhacks.net has not been updated since April 26th.
Right now it seems the best option is to […]

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