We finally talk about our MythTV experience. For this show we have invited Jeff Davis to be our guest. Jeff was critical in putting our MythTV project together. He did most of the Low Level LINUX work for us including finding and installing device drivers.
The website will feature links and a parts list that was discussed on the show.
MythTV - an open source DVR project. It has been under development for almost four years, and is very stable and feature rich. MythTV is free software, licensed under the GPL.
- Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
- Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
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Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and
multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent
to the user.
- Compresses video in software using rtjpeg (from
Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4 (from libavcodec). Full support for Hardware
MPEG-2 encoder cards (Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350). Preliminary support
for DVB cards and the new pcHDTV tuner card.
- Support for the (very nice looking) hardware MPEG-2 decoder and TV out present on the Hauppauge PVR-350.
- Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
- Grabs program information using xmltv.
- A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
Parts used to put the MythTV project Together:
One GB RAM - $65
SONY NEX Optiarc 18X DVD +/_ DVD Burner - $33
Total Cost without tax and shipping - $936
What should the person who is not a Computer Science expert consider as a potential solution?
MythDora 4.0 - MythDora is a Fedora Core and MythTV "All-In-One" CD/DVD. The
install will load a preconfigured Fedora Core 6 installation on your
computer as well as install and configure MythTV-0.20-1. There are
extras included with MythDora such as MythArchive, MediaMVP and
MythStreamTV
What if you don't want to build it yourself?
There are companies only that will sell you a pre-configured MythTV DVR.
You can also buy one of the two prototypes the HT Guys built. Contact
Jeff Davis
