MythTV 0.17 Released

foobar01 writes "MythTV 0.17 has been released. Changes include Mac OS X frontend support, big improvements to DVB and HDTV support, "timestretch" feature (for changing playback speed but not the pitch so you can watch shows more quickly), firewire capture support for cable boxes with firewire output, and widescreen user interface support. See the changelog for the full list of changes."

Comments

Why is this in the Apple section?

[SECProto]

I agree, frontend support for the mac was one of the bigger changes, but... it still will not record tv shows on a mac. it can only be used to watch already-recorded shows. Which is not much different than a video player, which is not the only function of MythTV

or...

[Ooter]

"timestretch" feature (for changing playback speed but not the pitch so you can watch shows more quickly)

Or, if you're from the south, you can slow down the show for easier understanding.

Re:or...

[Phillup]

if you're from the south, you can slow down the show

But, does it add the extra syllables?

Re:Why Apple?

[lpangelrob2]

I'm not really sure, but here's a guess...

if (product.getDescription().contains("Apple")) {
setCategory("Apple");
logger.warn(this.class + " [TODO] -- needs to extend SteveJobsRealityDistortionField");
}

Obligatory disclaimer... I own a couple of Apples.

I can do ya one better!

[Trolling4Columbine]

Not watch 24 at all!

I've got ya beat by 18 hours, plus I haven't suffered through a mindless, repetitive story about a guy who likes to yell at people.

Re:I can do ya one better!

[ewg]

I loved that part where that guy had a gun and was pointing it at that other guy.

Totally changes the way you watch TV

[PsychoKiller]

I just got my MythTV system running 2 weeks ago. I'm still running 0.16 but it's still great.

I'm using a Pundit-R that sits beside my TV, and it uses a 802.11b wireless card to get programming data.

Since I've been using it for 2 weeks, it's totally changed the way the wife and I watch TV. We never miss an episode of our favourite shows, and never watch commercials.

The commercial marking function is like magic, it looks for blank frames in the data stream and flags that as a commercial. I'd say it gets it right 80% of the time, 15% of the time it will include the station ID clip, and 5% it will grab an extra commercial, but I'll just hit forward on the remote to skip it.

My favourite part is using it to watch a new show that's 'almost' live. I'll set it to record the show, but then start watching it 5-10 minutes after it's started. When I get to the commercials I skip over them, and by the end of the show I'll have hopefully synced up perfectly with the real time stream.

My prediction for the DVR market

[Quiet_Desperation]

Apple will buy Tivo.

Disclaimer: I own a DirecTivo. I don't really know why I needed to declare that. I think I just wanted to sound important.

[1] Tivo is starting to look like it might become "beleaguered" much like Apple was declared during the years 1970 through 2005. Yes, Apple was called beleaguered by the tech media even before it existed.

[2] Tivo is (I think) Linux based. Making it compilable on BSD Unix is, like, what? Two man hours? What? Different motherborads? Ok, four man hours.

[3] Steve Jobs wants the Mac to be the center of our digital media warm fuzziness thing where we go for brief respites from the wacky demon haunted world in which we live.

[4] The Grammys have become dominated by hip hop and gangsta rap. Only a vast array of Mac powered DVRs spread across the nation can protect us from whatever.

It can't be any more obvious that that! You savvy?

You heard it here first.

Re:Is there a good mythtv live cd?

[masonjd]

If you are referring to KnoppMyth then it also installs the backend. You can use the cd to just install the frontend but it will install the both pieces on one computer. That is the way I have done it.

KnoppMyth definitely makes MythTV more accessible. The entire install and configuration takes about 20 minutes provided that you are using linux compatible hardware. Pretty much if you are using a Hauppauge card then you are set.

Re:Too little too late

[gremlins]

First if you use IVTV it does record mpeg. But besides that nuv is just an encapsulation for various diffrent encoding formats. So even though it says nuv the underlying encoding format is usally either mpeg2 or mpeg4. Now if you want to view them on other platforms mplayer has a patch to play nuv files. Also you could use winmyth to play them on windows. And if you want to easily convert nuv files to divx you can use nuvexport. Or you could play them through mythweb with mythstreamtv.

Re:Why Apple?

[hunterx11]

If you really owned a couple of Apples, you'd do it this way:

if([[Product description] rangeOfString:@"Apple"] != NSNotFound) {
[Article setCategory:@"Apple"];
NSLog(@"%@%@", self, @"[TODO] -- needs to extend SteveJobsRealityDistortionField");
}