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Re:What happened to Mythtv's paid service, TechnoV
TechnoVera's data came from Zap2it. Meanwhile, their URL http://www.lxmsuite.com/ is parked.
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Re:Sounds great, but is it too late?
I don't like subscriptions, but even more than that I don't like being locked into a single service provider. What if, in two years, the scheduling on the Tivo service is always wrong, or the prices raise outrageously. Having the choice to switch providers is a big plus for me. Right now I use a free, web based service with my PVR.
"You get what you pay for" (which is probably what I should've titled my post, because that's what it really boils down to). In four and 1/2 years of daily, heavy TiVo use I never had an issue with the reliability of the scheduling data that Tribune (through TiVo) provided. The DataDirect service that MythTV now has access to in the US is great--seriously, much thanks to Zap2It--and is, theoretically, the exact same data as TiVo's since it also comes from Tribune, but in the six weeks I've used it I've already seen at least one day (today) with almost no programs scheduled. (I'm probably going to have to start running mythfilldatabase from cron twice a day instead of once.) People on mythtv-users complain about other such instances, too. Yes, LxMSuite is available, but I don't know if it would actually solve this issue or not, or if it's just a polite way of helping to subsidize the (very worthy) MythTV development effort. -
Re:THE UNEDITED VERSION
I dunno, once you get over the fact that it's windows, MCE can be pretty nice. The
I have a Myth box, and it.. well it's ok. It crashes quite frequently (most often when it tries to change a channel to record a show on the channel I was already watching) and it lacks a certain... "polish" that windows MCE has (this is mainly in the UIs; myth's skins are amateurish at best and god awful ugly at worst.. and this goes for the LxM skins as well, though LxM's guide data service is nice.) The main reason I stick to myth is the ease of exporting the
It's been almost 6 months since the last release, and I'm afraid that Myth has hit that inevitable point in open source development where the developers want to rewrite the whole thing. I don't read any of the development lists though, so I could be wrong, it could have just stopped. -
Re:Myth TV?
You can try Knoppmyth, which is a Knoppix-based installer and bootable front end. Be aware, though, that MythTV requires some specific hardware, and if you try to run it with a lot of the stock MS MCE machines they're selling these days, you're going to run into problems.
To get a truly hassle-free setup, you need a Linux-compatible capture card with hardware encoding. These (the Hauppage PVR series are the best supported, particularly the PVR-250) do not come standard in cheap MCE machines. There are also issues with on-board video and with ATI cards. You'll need a good, supported graphics card like the nvidia gf or fx series, particularly if you plan on going out to a TV or to HD.
If everything is compatible and everything is plugged in just right, you can get Knoppmyth running within a couple hours.
In the long run, though, it's better if not to build it yourself than at least put the pieces together yourself. Many, many people have done this following Jarod Wilson's excellent guide for Fedora. If you do it this way, you have a much better idea how to fix things that go wrong (they will), and how to upgrade and extend functions when you want to (you will).
MythTV is not a simple thing to get running, and it is certainly not low maintenance. It is, though, the most powerful media engine on the planet at the moment, and is entirely open-source.
There is a business model for MythTV, with a subscription service available through LxM Suite -- they give you six months of TV listings data as well as other services for a $30 fee. The money, minus operating costs, goes in a pool to pay for bounties. Subscribers get a number of points to vote for what proposed features get funded -- i.e. paying somebody to do some of the more tedious coding, but the subscribers decide what code gets priority.
Running MythTV will take a lot more of your time than you might expect, particularly as you learn to use the CD and video archiving tools. But it is well worth the time. I've had my box running for over a year now, and can't imagine what I'd do without it.
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Re:Systm's Video How To
" There is a link to Zap2it, but wasn't there a slashdot article not too long ago about Zap2it beginning to block users due to high traffic etc. Something like changing their format would render MythTv useless? I am really curious to know if it's possible."
Have a link?
Unless I'm mistaken (or there was a 2nd incident), Zap2it had an open letter to the community about some certain commercial (shareware?) PVR software makers abusing the free datadirect service they were providing to freeware and OSS projects.
In addition if someone was THAT concerned about the future of their listings could check out LxMSuites is offering robust EPG data tailored for MythTV as a subscription where some of the profits are re-invested in to the MythTV project.
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Frightening stock photo couple
Calm down, it's just television.
"OhmygodtheTEEVEE! CLICK!"
"WOO that's some TEE VEE! CLICKTHATGUY!!!!"
"I'm so happy we bought this motherfucking TV! Oh sweet jesus click it!"
"TeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeee VeeeeeEEEeeee!!!" -
US only I am afraid
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US only I am afraid
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Along the same lines with MythTv
Along the same lines, a new company LxM Media http://lxmsuite.com/ has started up. They will be offering data services for MythTv http://mythtv.org/ as well as paying the Myth developers. From what I undstand, you pay $5/month, and you get bounty points to spend durring the month by putting them towards a specific feature or plugin. They will then pay the myth developer who implements the most popular function.
