MythTV, Open Source DVR
MythTV is a Free Open Source digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).
If you are interested in learning more about MythTV (or just want to check out some screenshots), please take a look at MythTV In Detail.
Latest MythTV News
New Website!
- After many years running under PHP-Nuke, MythTV.org is now proudly running its own customized website application, which we hope will be faster and more secure than the old site. Plus, we think it looks a whole lot better than the old site.
- The new website has a lot of new features including an RSS/Atom feed, the digg links to the right, and an all new "MythTV in Detail" section, so please feel free to poke around and explore the new layout. It's also a lot easier for us to maintain, update, and improve, so we hope to be able to provide more frequent updates than before, too.
- If you get a chance, drop by #mythtv-users on irc.freenode.net and thank designer Stuart Morgan (gbee) and coder Chris Petersen (xris) for all of the great work they put into setting up the new site.
- On a side note, Schedules Direct is looking for information about users from outside of the US and Canada. We know that there are a lot of MythTV users abroad, and it would really help them out if you would head over there and fill out the survey that they've posted.
MythTV 0.21
- New release! It's been quite a while, so there's lots of new stuff. Notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new frontends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple 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- The Release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date.
- Standard release info:
- 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.
- See this links section for a list of linux distributions based around MythTV.
Schedules Direct now open for membership.
- Hey all, just wanted to make sure everyone saw that Schedules Direct is now out of beta testing and fully open for anyone who wants to sign up.
- With the release of 0.20.2 the other day, switching your Myth config over from using Zap2It labs for data is fairly easy. Please see this mailing list posting from Bruce for a short set of instructions - but it mainly just boils down to running mythtv-setup, changing the existing listings grabber to Schedules Direct, and putting in your new username + password (assuming you kept the same lineup config as on the old Labs website). Took me well under 10 minutes.
- I know, it's a bit hard to start paying for guide data. It was free for so long! I'm not sure how many of you were around during the bad old days of having to screen scrape to get listings data, but it was decidedly not fun. Constantly upgrading XMLTV to deal with website changes, etc. So, really, I don't think paying a little bit for a stable source of good, complete data is unreasonable. This was the best alternative we developers could come up with, given the lack of options available to us, but I realize that not everyone will agree.
- If you're on the fence about signing up due to feeling that the price is currently too high and you'd rather just wait, I'd like to ask you to please reconsider. SD is a non-profit org run by open source/free software developers for the benefit of the users - not out to make money on this stuff - and the monthly/yearly price of membership will be lowered to meet costs. But, how much the price goes down initially will really depend on how many users sign up during these first months.
- And finally, I'd like to thank everyone who has already become a member of SD - your support of this project is great. =) And if you haven't, please consider becoming a member of Schedules Direct. Thanks.
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