tomshardware.com — Enter MythTV, a grand unification of personal digital video recording and home theater technology, and a magnum opus of modular design, freedom of expression and personal entertainment. At its core, MythTV is a digital video recording solution composed of several modular components that facilitate time-stretched manipulation of live television feed
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ryno35Sep 8, 2006
@ MiloMindrbindr I'm pretty sure once you get knoppmyth installed and running MythTv you can add any other available linux apps to it. It's just another linux flavor that happens focus on MythTv.
newtechfoolSep 8, 2006
Yeah, and the comparison is WRONG.MCE has plugin support. Pretty good one actually.MCE has master/slave architecture. You can use dedicated media center extenders and XBOXesMCE can record and play remotely including trans-code to lower res for portable MCE players etcThat said. I have been using Snapstream (<a class="user" href="http://www.snapstream.com)">http://www.snapstream.com)</a> and I am very satisfied. You even get HDTV. I have one master server with multiple capture cards (for simultaneous recording of multiple programs) and multiple clients (same functionality as master PC, except no capture cards. Can schedule recordings. view live/recorded content)
electrox3dSep 8, 2006
that walkthrough is for the original xbox, not the xbox 360, or a slim extender. You have to load a game/hack your way into the xbox, run linux then try and have myth stream to it. Not only that, but you can't turn on/off the original xbox w/the remote.Like I said, extenders and X360 is like having a tivo in every room of the house. Can myth do anything like this?
janicSep 8, 2006
The USB tuners from Hauppage don't have very good support under Linux, and therefore are not a good choice for Myth. There are people working on it, but I wouldn't count on it working soon.Sorry.The PCI cards work awesome though.If you absolutely must go outside the box, try the Plextor mpeg4 tuners, or a firewire connection to a STB.
corykingSep 8, 2006
$400 is nothing dude. My cable TV bill is $70 a month. What is $400 for something that actually makes my cable bill worth paying for?Really. You are jumping over dollars for pennies.
juice09Sep 8, 2006
@RubberbandActually, the way it edits out commericals is entering times into a database, so say a commercial starts at 0:50 and ends at 2:30. You can even manually flag commercials yourself while watching a recording or edit where it put skip points.
hockeySep 8, 2006
@deadbaby.If a card comes out that allows for direct digital capture someone somewhere will write a driver for it.Count on it.
fratzSep 9, 2006
Wow, and you're still seeing that bug in R5D1? Sorry about that - I wouldn't have expected that. :) Yep, I run mythic.tv and am one of the KnoppMyth developers. I'll look into the problem and see if I can fix it. You can just contact me via the "contact us" link on the site if you have questions about anything.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
Anyone who finds this interesting should have a look at Xbox media center (not the extender , the homebrew app). The only thing im aware of it cant do is use a TV signal. If your just interested in streaming your xvid movies and music to your living room then its great.
willgillSep 10, 2006
Funny how they had the logo for SageTV and never compare with it. SageTV runs on Linux or PCs. You can run it on thin client/server architecture. You can stream pictures, prerecorded video, music or even live TV across the Internet very well. I have mine configured without a capture card.My SageTV changes the channels on my cable box via firewire. It also grabs the direct Transport Stream. HDTV is exactly as it was transmitted from the cable co head-in. Pixel perfect. SageTV also has all those features mentioned in their comparison except it's not free... but as you can see.. well worth it.
giovaniSep 19, 2008
There's a Comparison Chart for MythTV against other FLOSS projects at: <a class="user" href="http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/flossmediacenter">http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/flossmediacent ...</a> if you have interest.