Comments on: MythTV better than Media Center?

By: Cheap Mac Laptop

Cheap Mac Laptop — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:42:46 +0000

Do the world's poor children really need a $100 laptop?

The chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab recently launched the $100 laptop to the world’s media. Is it necessary?

By: GMyth - a MythTV frontend on a Nokia 770? - Oliver Brown

GMyth - a MythTV frontend on a Nokia 770? - Oliver Brown — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:09:02 +0000

[...] okia 770?
March 18th, 2007 by Oliver

Someone on the MythTV mailing list recently announced GMyth, a library based on ANSI C [...]

By: Mono brings everything together - MythTV, PS3, Nokia 770 - Oliver Brown

Mono brings everything together - MythTV, PS3, Nokia 770 - Oliver Brown — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:48:36 +0000

[...] rts of cool things. Well Takeshi Yaegashi has now got a USB TV tuner working for it making MythTV essentially complete. So where does Mono come into this? Well Mo [...]

By: Streaming video to the Nokia 770 - Oliver Brown

Streaming video to the Nokia 770 - Oliver Brown — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:35:20 +0000

[...] ion for video streaming and Voice Over IP. My final goal would be getting it to work with MythTV (it can already use VLC for streaming) and have live TV anywhere [...]

By: Some progress with MythTV - Oliver Brown

Some progress with MythTV - Oliver Brown — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:05:42 +0000

[...] (technically) installed KnoppMyth (a Debian based Linux distribution designed just to run MythTV) today. I say technically since I installed it somewhere where I [...]

By: BigDave

BigDave — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:20:17 +0000

There’s an installable live “MythTV” version of a top Linux distro, PCLinuxOS. You can download the image, and test it on your hardware, if it picks up your hardware correctly, or you can tweak it to do so with help from the forum, you’re in, just install and you have a complete home entertainment system which can also be expanded to include “normal” software too.

The link is here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=12304.0

hope this helps someone.

By: ReactOS - Oliver Brown

ReactOS - Oliver Brown — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:21:24 +0000

[...] f=”http://www.reactos.org/media/screenshots/2006/ros_030_049.jpg”>My investigations of MythTV and Mono has led me to a few interesting things regarding Linux a [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:30:13 +0000

Yes it is quite annoying how everything these days is totally DRM’d to death, and that every manufacturer has their own method of securing media, making them incompatible with one another for the most part – surely this sort of thing stifles competition by locking customers into a particular brand once they begin.

And anyway, when DRM is so easy to circumvent by even the most basic of computer users, all it does it cause problems for novice users who don’t understand why their media can’t just work on any machine.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:06:48 +0000

I will point out that most of MythTV works on Intel Macs.

Even getting it to run on a Mac is made problematic by random (and unnecessary dependencies) like certain features being written in random scripting languages like Perl and Python.

Using MythWeb and MythStream you can get access to everything at least from a Windows computer (or any computer for that matter) but you lose a lot of functionality.

Maybe some Mono programmers could write something like this (if they haven’t already?) which would be cross platform…

Another advantage over Media Center is the complete disregard for content restrictions and DRM

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:53:47 +0000

Is there an upcoming Windows release do you think? Looking at the website, it is in early release so I would suggest perhaps not yet.

Have you looked into the Media Centre that will ship with Vista, see what improvements/additions/changes will be included?