MythTV News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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!
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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 HD content (1080i/720p) although the currently available content from Netflix is only SD. It has HDMI […]

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If you think the official MythTV frontend is too much of a beast to start, when all you want to do is watch a show, then MythFace might be for you.
Built because the official frontend was unstable, it uses MPlayer to do the actual playback, NFS to mount the files and GMyth to talk to […]

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CommandIR II is a new IR transceiver for MythTV. It is the followup to CommandIR Mini. It will let you control up to four devices, such as set-top boxes or TVs and it has 6 user programmable LEDs which you can use to indicate that MythTV is recording something or that it might be running […]

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Brent Evans has an update on his first experiences with the Hauppauge HD PVR.
Generally he is pretty excited about it. The image quality is supposedly excellent.
Some of the early units have had heat issues, causing them to crash frequently. But it sounds like Hauppauge is handling it nicely replacing those units quickly.
Brent Evans is promising […]

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The first release of the Linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR is now available.
MythTV is still not ready to use the driver, but work is getting done.
Snipped from the announcement:
I’m pleased to announce the immediately available of a mercurial repository for the Haupauge HD PVR.
The repository is at http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/. Follow the howto at http://linuxtv.org/repo/ but […]

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I often see gadgets that I would love to own. They have that special thing that just makes you want one. Often, I don’t really have a need for it and so that’s a pity…

The Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard has that special thing to it. I don’t know if it is the diminutive size, the […]

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Digital Television has been here for a while, but these years, the big thing is that Analog Television is going away.
Well, that depends…
If you want to know more about the transition from analog to digital television, then take a look at the new “Digital Television” page on the MythTV.org wiki. It describes what it is […]

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This is about a week old, but there is a new version available of the IMDB Bulk updater. As mentioned earlier, this script will add new video files to MythVideo and automatically lookup metadata from imdb.com.
The latest version (1.12) has these changes:

Modified -Fileup to follow symbolic links and autofs directories.
Fixed a bug in Title […]

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Brent Evans is at it once again. He has now received his HD PVR from Hauppauge and is documenting the whole process with images, text and video!
So far SageTV and GB-PVR have some sort of support for the HD PVR. MythTV support is supposedly very close.
The first impressions are basically that the firmware and drivers […]

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