Worried about TiVo? MythTV for Beginners
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By John Tintle, Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I ran across a program called Knoppmyth. Knoppmyth is Knoppix optimized for MythTV to make it easier for novice Linux users to install MythTV. (For those who do not know what Knoppix is, Knoppix is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. )
Why Myth? Source: MythTV
-Basic “live-tv” functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind “live” TV.
-Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
-Multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network.
-Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
-Grabs program information using xmltv.
-A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
Why Now? I know this may be old news to some, but to those wanting to try our hand at MythTV, this may be a good place to start.
One Comment
Namratha B
July 16th, 2007
at 10:19pm
Hello,
Am Namratha from India,Bangalore….I am new to Mythtv so i know only the basics of mythtv….
And i want to display the google calender events/reminders on my mythtv….
for eg…i have set up an event/reminder on my google calender for a particular date ‘n time(say Tuesday 8:00 P.M)….’n later when i come home to watch MythTV i want it to display my reminder on my TV….
Is this possible???
if yes can u tell me how to go about this?????
Thanks ‘n Regds.