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MythTV 0.20 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-your-own dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest version of MythTV, the open source PVR application for Linux, has been released. New features (as documented in the release notes) include a new menu system, an improved internal DVD player, support for DVB radio channels, and mouse support. There is also a new plugin – MythArchive – which allows recordings be written to DVD. You can download MythTV from MythTV.org."

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  1. Questions by kevin_conaway · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For you Myth users out there, I have a few questions:

    1. Is it possible to create "playlists" of TV Shows? Say I wanted to rip all my futurama DVDs to a Myth box and play them at random. Could I do that?
    2. Are there any reputable places that will put together a box for me?

    Thanks. Congrats to the MythTV team

  2. ya rly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://mythtv.son.org/tiki-index.php should help. I don't think you'll find it under ports.

  3. PVR for me by drewzhrodague · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to pipe-up again, and say that MythTV is awesome. If you've got a tuner card, and a spare box, totally check it out. IT EATS COMMERCIALS, plays DVDs, MP3s, does a photo album, and other things that other units don't do, or don't do well.

    It even has support for MAME.

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  4. Google Summer of Code by Viper_Viper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any idea when the Google Summer of Code projects will be included in MythTV? I am guessing .21? These projects are going to be very usefull to MythTV, especially the AutoConfig, Make Myth Multi-user, and the Windows Port. http://code.google.com/soc/mythtv/about.html

  5. Re:A Year of MythTV by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Comparing WMCE to mythtv is like comparing a burning car in a junkyard to a new fararri. Windows Media center edition is 100% pure unadulterated crap. it sucks so bad that it spawned people to build things like Mediaportal that blow away every bit of MCE in every possible way. I have helped convert many Windows Media Center machines from the buggy as hell Media center to Media portal + XP pro and gave the users more features, higher stability and removed ALL the damned MCE DRM it adds to your recordings.

    Mythtv is far superior and wows the hell out of people... even the Diehard windows guys drop their jaws when I plug into CATV and start tuning the digital Cable channels directly... something that is 100% impossible under windows because of "safety" features built in the driver.

    I personally prefer mediaportal, but nobody in their right mind can like Media Center edition.. ot simply sucks and feels half done in every part of it.

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