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  • greenw
    W.H Q on 2006-04-19

      MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the
      mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software
      and operating systems.


      MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to
      do the following:


      • You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.

      • You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one
        program at a time.

      • You can have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in
        them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the
        Master backend.

      • You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance),
        each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any
        program that was recorded by any of the servers. Clients can be diskless
        and controlled entirely by a remote control.

      • You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2,
        MJPEG, DVB or HDTV capture devices. With appropriate hardwaree, MythTV can
        control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and satellite TV
        systems.

      • Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from Zap2It.com, a
        subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called
        DataDirect, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information.
        Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses
        this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs
        that can be recorded if you don't have enough tuners.
  • tsangal
    Alexander Tsang on 2006-10-23
    MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that I've been working on in my spare time. It's been under heavy development for almost four years, and is now quite useable and featureful.

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