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MythTV 0.19 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the your-sunday-project dept.

slummy writes "After much anticipation, MythTV 0.19 has been released. The release notes outline the new features and bug fixes, and the official announcement for this release is available on the MythTV site." From the release notes: "The major changes in this release [include]: LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching. Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders. Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress. Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings. Channel changes can be made across tuners without changing tuners manually first. New popup keyboard simplifies setup using remote. Preview schedule changes when making adjustments to recording schedules. Added ability to control MythFrontend through a telnet socket."

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  1. Lazy Question by hattig · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1) What hardware can and can't run MythTV?
    a) In particular, could a VIA EPIA-800 system run it (recording, playback, live tv, etc)?

    2) Does it work with DVB-T (digital terrestrial) in the UK? What hardware for PCs can receive DVD-T, or can it use cheap USB receivers?

    3) TV Guide - does it recognise DVB-T 7-day guide and now & next? Digital text?

    This would go nicely in my planned shed PC, which wil have the above hardware (from an old system of mine) for internet and music. If I can add a cheap DVB-T card and add this functionality that would be even better.

  2. Re:Perhaps they can make it possible to configure by BoldAndBusted · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sorry for your troubles. I've had MythTV running solid since August of 2004. No crashes outside of the few days needed to configure it. What you are asking for is for a nicely boxed product that has an army of QA testers and UI analysts to make a very polished product geared for non-technical users. MythTV is, as stated on mythtv.org, geared towards developers.

    Of course, anyone is free to try to create what you are asking for out of MythTV and sell it. You are welcome to join the project and submit solid code to implement the features you suggest are important to MythTV.