MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that I've been working on in my spare time. It's been under heavy development for over a year, and is now quite useable and featureful."

im using a 22 inch TV connected via scart from a nvidia based video card and no matter what i change i cant seam to find a setting that allows me to read the screen from anything other than the mythtv frontend. if i try to browse the news feed once i select a story then font is to small and when i use an xterm the font is to small.

Yes! We have and will continue to fix and update pieces of MythTV to work better on television using a remote, and using the hardware we use. Look for our name in a piece of code near you!

Legal problems for encoded DVDs. Currently there are no licensed decoders available to work within MythTV. We are looking into some possible future solutions for this problem. CSS can fix this problem, but it is illegal to distribute or use within the United States. A script is supplied to install CSS for those outside the United States.

Use mvpmc with the -s flag to specify the IP address of the MythTV server. If you also use the -r flag to specify the NFS mount point of the MythTV recordings directory, then you will play your MythTV recordings via NFS (If you have multiple backends, use -r with a colon-seperated list for each directory in which to look for recordings). If not, you will play them via the Myth protocol.

Use the MENU key when the recording is highlighted to bring up the episode menu. From there you can either delete the recording, or delete it while allowing future recordings.

Why, yes it does. It is located at: http://svn.mythtv.org. This is a website running Trac, which merges together a ticketing system with Subversion version management tools. You can even browse the source code through this page.

QT4 involves thousands of changes to get working, and it will take a long time for those changes to be made. Even starting the changes is difficult, once started mythtv will not function until they are complete and no other work can be done during this period.

Please see http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ for the latest details. Packages for stable (etch), testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) are provided.

Maybe. We will continually add new plugins and features into HACKmyth upgrades. However, only useful, stable and appropriate plugins will be integrated.

Because this is a separate program licensed differently for use in many other consumer electronics. We are happy to put this program in to be used by this community, but cannot give it away.

You can watch and delete your recordings, as well as view the upcoming recording schedule. You can also watch live tv on any available tuner. Additional functionality, such as scheduling of recordings, commercial skip, etc are not supported at this time.

Live TV does not currently work with MythTV 0.19. mvpmc is capable of of playing live TV with older versions of MythTV. You can watch live TV either via the filesystem or the myth protocol. If you use the -b option to mvpmc, you can tell mvpmc which directory contains the ringbuffer. If you do not use the -b option, then live tv will be played via the myth protocol. When you select live TV, you will be given a menu containing all of the programs currently being broadcast.

Your guess is as good as mine. Isaac typically packages releases at points in time that he feels are stable and a good time for a release. He doesn't do so on a fixed schedule, and so far, we have not gotten any significant advanced notice of pending releases. This is just the way it works.

If you're going to, for example, have your cable TV feed temporarily disconnected, and you don't want to record static, but you don't want to lose your schedules: A1: Go to the "Upcoming Recordings" page of the frontend (or MythWeb) and add a "do not record this episode" override for each scheduled recording during the expected service outage. (This solution will not work for episodes with empty subtitles or descriptions because they are exempt from duplicate checking.

MythTV is not your average TV. It's a digital video recorder! When you watch TV, the ability to pause, rewind, and skip commercials is because it is actually recording everything you watch. As an added bonus, when you are watching something and decide you want to keep it, hitting record will just tag the existing recording as a keeper. The LiveTV page has lots more info, but here are the three most FAQs.

No. HACKmyth boxes are verified in many ways, and their installations are tracked. Any attempt to update any other box will lock up your personal update account.

Of course! We would love to help the community make MythTV a success. Our plan is to focus on our Home Automation product to make money, but we plan on supporting the MythTV community which helped us get where we are.

Okoro Media Systems is dedicated to giving our customers a choice of the best hardware and software available for the HTPC market. In order to do this, we must evaluate and test new software with all off our systems. This way we can make sure that our customers can just enjoy their HTPC when it arrives. MythTV is not available due to the high learning curve of Linux for our end users. If we were to offer MythTV, Okoro Media Systems would not offer support for the hardware.

This is because MythTV itself only ever supports one protocol version at a time, while mvpmc tries to be compatible with all versions of MythTV. So mvpmc starts with protocol 8, and MythTV will tell it what protocol version it should be speaking, and mvpmc will then switch to the correct version.

You are probably transcoding your recordings to a format that the MediaMVP is not capable of playing. Your recordings need to be in mpeg1/mpeg2 format.

Yes the Seven does this. The Seven takes it a step further however. Lets say that there is a TV show coming in february that you would like to watch, but you do not know the exact day it should come on. You can tell your Seven what TV show to look for. Then in the future when that TV show appears on your guide. The Seven will automatically record and remind you about this show.

All versions of the Seven include a 100Mbps ethernet. If the version of Seven you purchase comes with wireless, it will then include both ethernet and wireless. All versions of the Seven include a 100Mbps ethernet. If the version of Seven you purchase comes with wireless, it will then include both ethernet and wireless.

A few different ways, and it depends on your specific hardware and the provider. Possibilities include Serial Control, USB Control, FireWire Control, and IR Blaster (using the PC as a programmable IR Remote Control). See the HOWTO for details. At least some models of the Hauppauge PVR-150 include an IR output capability. The short answer is not really.

Digital Cable, analog channels: In many cases you can tune the analog cable channels off the same line, but sometimes you will need to use the cable box. Digital Cable, digital channels: Certain cards, such as the pcHDTV 3000, can receive non-scrambled QAM-256 channels. These will generally only be your local HDTV channels. For all other channels you will need the cable box and an analog capture card.