


MythTV 0.21 Released 68
kormoc writes "The new release has lots of new stuff, notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new front-ends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple of new plugins, some new deinterlacing / video display options, and many, many other things. The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date. Grab the release from the download section and please at least try to read the docs before asking questions. The binary packages should hopefully be updated to 0.21 soon."
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TV Listings (Score:1)
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Some services also broadcast listing data with the program stream itself.
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That's way different, though. In the UK, you've already paid for that data from your TV's taxation. That's the same reason that non-UK IP addresses can't access new TV content on the BBC's website --non-UK citizens can't get free programming because we didn't pay our tax to the BBC.
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http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat [radiotimes.com]
But I see a fair chunk of them here. (I don't have cable, and I don't care enough to enumerate them all).
I'm confused about something. . . (Score:3, Insightful)
People were upset that Zap2It wasn't giving free listings (and they'd rather not pay for the pay service), so they setup another *pay* service as an alternative? Why not just pay for Zap2It? Were they asking for an outrageous fee for the listings?
I mean, I could see it being reasonable to pay a small monthly fee for listings - I mean, it's gotta cost some money to assemble the listing data, and then the cost of running servers and Internet connections to publish
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Screen scraping, which is what this is, may be against the site's policy, and might be illegal.
Besides, this solution generally requires high maintenance as small formatting changes tend to de-rail the scripts.
I was not using MythTV in the pre-Zap2it screen scraping days, but I understand that it was a veritable nightmare of script maintenance
$20 per year is difficult after it being free for so long, but in my opinion, it is well worth it.
BenyBug Fixed in the SAA7134? (Score:2)
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I'd say it is best to go with the Haupauge (sp?) cards that are proven winners with MythTV...cheap and you can slap multiple ones in there to record/watch on different channels at the same time. That and they have hardware decoding/encoding which allows you to run slightly less powerful processors on the box itself....
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If you have media center on XP, I would highly recommend using it. The channel guide is downloaded for free. Handling of showtime conflicts, lack of
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DVB Multiplexing! (Score:5, Informative)
Example: You are paranoid of slight time changes, and record ALL shows with 5 minutes pre and post buffer. In the
It will also let you (if you're in australia) record ABC1 and ABC2 off the same tuner at the same time!
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it:
-auto-updates (can be turned off)
-gets info from various services (oztivo, websites, imdb, etc)
-has not failed me yet
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It is the only truly legal way to get channel data in Australia (it doesn't scrape Yahoo's website) and it also managed to win Channel 9's lawsuit that tried to get them shut down.
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DVB transport streams contain four independent program streams each. You can in fact record four programs at the same time by simply writing the unaltered transport stream to disk. Decoding need not happen until you actually want to watch one of those programs.
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This was the 1 thing that kept me trying to figure out the less polished alternatives, but now mythTV can do multiplexing looks like ill be giving it a shot. I just hope theyve included advanced enough options when it comes to recording the multiplexes. Can you specify how long to keep an unused multiplex, so you
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No need for LVM? (Score:2, Insightful)
Hamdy feature for UK Freeview users (Score:2)
Current Best MythTV distro? (Score:2)
Lately I've been struggling with trying to find a working combination of things. I've tried MythTVOS-2008 and while it saw my hardware, didn't seem willing to put any readable display on the screen. Just loaded up LinuxMCE and I haven't been able to get past the initial configure screen thanks to my Westinghouse TV. (It seems to have serious issues with displaying certain resolutions)
I've got a Hauppauge WinTV 150 card, a
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http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html [mysettopbox.tv]
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http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=301 [ubuntuforums.org]
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Two years with MythTV (Score:3, Interesting)
* Support for multiple recording directories.
* Support for recording multiple streams over DVB.
* New deinterlacers (and an OpenGL-based video renderer, but that's still disabled by default, as I understand it).
That's it. There are hundreds of other changes and fixes, great and small, but for most people these are the changes that'll mean the most. Despite the 18 months since 0.20's release (a way too-long interval, I'd argue [gossamer-threads.com]), this is a testament to just how good 0.20 was feature- and stabilitywise.
Even bigger news than 0.21 is the forthcoming $299 Hauppauge HD-PVR [avsforum.com], the first consumer-grade high-definition video encoder (and with promised Linux support, no less). Within a couple of months, anyone—not just those lucky enough to have unencrypted FireWire ports—will be able to record in real time full 720p or 1080i video and Dolby 5.1 audio from their high-definition cable boxes into h.264 format and play it back on their MythTV boxes. Be aware, however, that the h.264 recordings will for many likely require faster hardware [gossamer-threads.com] than what they're using for their MythTV frontends.
6 years in the making and... (Score:2)