Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued (softpedia.com)

"Mythbuntu as a separate distribution will cease to exist. We will take the necessary steps to pull Mythbuntu specific packages from the repositories unless someone steps up to take these packages over," read Friday's announcement. prisoninmate writes: Mythbuntu was an operating system based on the widely-used Ubuntu Linux distro and built around the MythTV free and open source digital video recorder (DVR) project... The Mythbuntu team recommends users who want to use Mythbuntu to install the latest release of the Xubuntu Linux operating system and then add the Mythbuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive), which will continue to provide the latest MythTV releases and other related packages...

The first release of the OS was back when Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was announced, and the last one was Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus). From this point...there will be no new ISO images anymore. Also, the mythbuntu-desktop and Mythbuntu-Control-Centre packages are now discontinued and won't be available from the Ubuntu repositories anymore. However, users will still be able to install the MythTV software and configure it as they see fit.

Comments

Re:Or just use MythTV

[BenFranske]

What hardware systems are as capable as MythTV and as cost effective (ongoing subscription costs)? Even just for TV DVR capability, which is all I use Myth for, I haven't found one yet.

Requirements:
A) Cable card support
B) Ability to save and edit recordings (exportable, DRM free recordings)
C) Automatic commercial skip (this works incredibly well on MythTV)
D) Ability to schedule recordings over a web interface
E) All of the standard DVR features

Re:Or just use MythTV

[fahrbot-bot]

What hardware systems are as capable as MythTV and as cost effective (ongoing subscription costs)? Even just for TV DVR capability, which is all I use Myth for, I haven't found one yet.

I built a MythTV system, with two analog tuners, in Jan 2007 and used it until April of 2016 when I switched to a Tivo BOLT. My local cable provider Cox was going "all digital" and I wasn't confident about being able to use a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun PRIME reliably. Cox apparently varies its enforcement of the CCI bit -- different settings in different markets -- and is fickle about even maintaining those settings in each market, and I didn't want to have to screw around with it and them.

As for a Tivo BOLT vs. MythTV WRT your requirements:

Requirements:

A) Cable card support

The Tivo BOLT supports one card, 4 streams. Another Tivo device supports 2 cards, 6 streams.

B) Ability to save and edit recordings (exportable, DRM free recordings)

The Tivo supports saving through a web interface.

C) Automatic commercial skip (this works incredibly well on MythTV)

The Tivo has commercial skip available for a lot of channels and shows (generated by their staff on their servers), but usually only during prime time, and it works pretty well.

D) Ability to schedule recordings over a web interface

Nope. But, Tivo has an Andriod and iOS app that works through over the LAN and/or cloud -- not sure of the breakdown.

Personally, I would *really* like to have this functionality back. I used the MythWeb plugin a LOT and even wrote a Perl script to generate a 6-hour static programming schedule grid (with clickable links) updated every hour via cron. Our local paper use to print a "green sheet" (called that 'cause it was green) with the week's programming laid out in a grid and it was pretty handy. My script generated something like this.

E) All of the standard DVR features

Yup.

The BOLT cost me $400 with a 1 TB HD and included the first year of service (as with all Tivos). There are system with more/less available and you can add an external, but there are caveats. Continuing service is $150/year. All in all, I think my MythTV system was more capable -- and could be used for other things! -- , but the Tivo system is less hassle. I would actually recommend it -- especially over what Cox and, presumably, other cable companies offer.