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MythTV 0.21 Released
kormoc writes "The new release has lots of new stuff, notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new front-ends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple of new plugins, some new deinterlacing / video display options, and many, many other things. The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date. Grab the release from the download section and please at least try to read the docs before asking questions. The binary packages should hopefully be updated to 0.21 soon."
The MythTV box I use at home (version 0.20) is pulling listings data from Schedules Direct, the service created to replace Zap2it's listings service.
I'd say it is best to go with the Haupauge (sp?) cards that are proven winners with MythTV...cheap and you can slap multiple ones in there to record/watch on different channels at the same time. That and they have hardware decoding/encoding which allows you to run slightly less powerful processors on the box itself....
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Finally you can record overlapping shows on one tuner! .20 and below this would use two tuners if you wanted 7:30-8pm and 8-8:30pm. Now it is smart enough to pull two streams off the multiplex.
Example: You are paranoid of slight time changes, and record ALL shows with 5 minutes pre and post buffer. In the
It will also let you (if you're in australia) record ABC1 and ABC2 off the same tuner at the same time!
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LVM may not be needed for Myth, but as a home server/media center, its important. I LVM a RAID-1 set on my mythbox, and carve out space for pictures, mp3s, etc.
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Or if you have a cable box with firewire ports you can jack directly into it. 0.21 has huge fixes for firewire.
If you want continual quality listings, you're probably going to have to pay for it. I got SageTV, and with the $80? I spent, I get free listings, for well, I guess as long as they stick around. I've been using it for like 2 years now, so I guess based on that rate, it would be $40 worth of listings. I think people should be thankful that Zap2it lasted as long as it did. You can't expect some company to just feed you data that they've spent a lot of time gathering for free.
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Ok, let me see if I understand this right. . .
People were upset that Zap2It wasn't giving free listings (and they'd rather not pay for the pay service), so they setup another *pay* service as an alternative? Why not just pay for Zap2It? Were they asking for an outrageous fee for the listings?
I mean, I could see it being reasonable to pay a small monthly fee for listings - I mean, it's gotta cost some money to assemble the listing data, and then the cost of running servers and Internet connections to publish those listings. Why create a non-free competitor to Zap2It, instead of just using Zap2It?
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Try Knoppmyth. Yeah, it's Knoppix-based and thus Debian, but try it anyway. Go outside your comfort zone. I've been using it for about a year now. The last few versions have been very easy to set up. I don't have a digital card tho, so don't know how it will play with your ATSC card.
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
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I've had a MythTV setup at home for more than two years now, and have posted several times about it. Here's my quick take on the major changes for 0.21:
* Support for multiple recording directories.
* Support for recording multiple streams over DVB.
* New deinterlacers (and an OpenGL-based video renderer, but that's still disabled by default, as I understand it).
That's it. There are hundreds of other changes and fixes, great and small, but for most people these are the changes that'll mean the most. Despite the 18 months since 0.20's release (a way too-long interval, I'd argue), this is a testament to just how good 0.20 was feature- and stabilitywise.
Even bigger news than 0.21 is the forthcoming $299 Hauppauge HD-PVR, the first consumer-grade high-definition video encoder (and with promised Linux support, no less). Within a couple of months, anyone—not just those lucky enough to have unencrypted FireWire ports—will be able to record in real time full 720p or 1080i video and Dolby 5.1 audio from their high-definition cable boxes into h.264 format and play it back on their MythTV boxes. Be aware, however, that the h.264 recordings will for many likely require faster hardware than what they're using for their MythTV frontends.