Practical MythTV: Build Your Own PVR & Media Center PC for Home Entertainment | DIY Digital Video Recorder Setup Guide
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MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder (PVR) application that runs on Linux. Developed for several years by volunteers, it offers a stable and extensible platform for automating all of the things you would expect from a PVR, and much more.Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC takes a project-based approach to implementing your own MythTV setup. You get to pick and choose the functionality you want to install for your PVR, and will learn the details of everything from selecting hardware to advanced customization.You will learn how to record your favorite television shows, store your DVDs for later playback, create a music library out of your CD collection, and even use your PVR for voiceover IP. Your PVR wouldn't be complete without a remote control or the ability to play back content to other TVs in your home. You'll learn how to do both of these things in this book. You'll even learn to how to utilize your Xbox as a remote front-end to play back content.Beyond these basics, you will learn advanced techniques like commercial detection and skipping, auto-expiring content, creating your own themes for MythTV, and utilizing plug-ins to do things like display weather conditions, RSS feeds, and photo slide shows.
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Got this to install MythTV on an old PC with a PVR-150 MCE TV Tuner. Even though the book is more than helpful...it is several revisions behind the current version of MythTV which you can get for free. You do not get a copy of the version of MythTV they talk about in the book. This will need to be found on your own.Even after reading the book and following the steps...still had trouble getting Mythbuntu/KnoppMyth/MythTV to work properly to record a program...any program at all. Working nights...I record shows with an old PC to watch at a later time. Not only did MythTV not record ANYTHING at all...the log showed where it did.The problem with MythTV...even for someone like myself who has been around computers since the late 70's...is not this book...but the program itself. Unlike some of the Windows PVR programs...MythTV forces you to jump through WAY TOO MANY HOOPS with WAY TOO MANY STEPS to simply record a program. The Windows PVR program I use allows me to record a program in 4 steps or less...rather than requiring me to configure every aspect of every program every time I want to record something in MythTV. This is why I went back to Windows XP and the freeware PVR program I was using before. For some reason...the designers of MythTV have never heard the saying that less is more.Once MythTV is as easy to use as some of the Windows PVR programs...they will get a great following. Sure it's free...but when the program will not do what it claims...I would rather pay for TIVO or use Windows PVR/MCE. At least those will work and not let me down.
