MythTV Chapter Ready: The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu

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The The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu chapter is now ready. This chapter provides an overview of a basic MythBuntu installation, which is something which wasn't covered at all in Practical MythTV, as MythBuntu wasn't ready at the time. MythBuntu provides a simple installation and configuration option for those people who want to build a new MythTV system from scratch, and want to hide the normal Ubuntu install. Thanks to Michael Carden and Jost Stewart for their reviews of this chapter, as well as Paul Wayper for his comments.

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Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood

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This is the third book in the Deverry series, and is very readable. This book is a little different from the previous two because the two plots aren't as strongly linked as they have been in the previous two books. In previous books they've been interleaved, whereas in this book the first half of the book is one plot, and the second half the other. [isbn: 0586207414;0553285815]

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Prince of the Blood

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This is a follow on to the Riftwar Series that follows Borric and Erland (Arthura's sons) as they travel to Kesh for the Empress' 75th birthday celebrations. Along the way they grow up quite a lot, and learn what it means to rule. To be honest, the story is ok, but a little shallow. Its not as good as the Riftwar Series or Daughter of the Empire. Its about as good as A Darkness at Sethanon I guess. [isbn: 0586071407]

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MythTV Chapter Ready: Selecting Hardware

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The Selecting Hardware chapter is now ready. This chapter details the benefits of starting small, how to select the right hardware for a MythTV system if you're building one from scratch, and what the authors use for their MythTV systems. This chapter was originally written by Stewart Smith, and this version was reviewed by Josh Stewart. Thanks as well to Julien Goodwin and Michael Carden for their helpful comments.

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MythNetTV talk

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I gave a MythNetTV talk at linux.conf.au yesterday, and it went remarkably well. Hardly any fruit was thrown. I'm quite please that so far two patches have been sent to me after the talk, and questions in the talk promoted a release of version 7. I should share the following resources from the talk: the slide deck, my cheat sheet, the MythTV book chapter beta which I wrote while gathering my thoughts for the talk. The last one is probably the most useful, as its pretty much an expanded version of the talk. A historical note from November 2020: the mythtvbook.com website is now offline.

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MythNetTV release 7

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This release is smaller than the last one, but has some bug fixes which folk might find handy. New things in this release: Better testing: r232: Simple script to create the unit testing database New features: r210: Allow users to override the default bittorrent upload rate r212: Provide more sync information when running in verbose mode r216: Add the markunread command r218: Make only one download attempt for a given show per 24 hour period r220: Change download interval to one hour, update last attempt time more frequently r222: Add --oldestfirst and --newestfirst flags, which alter NextDownloads behavior r224: Add flag which forces downloads to run, even if they've failed recently r226: Don't mark a bittorrent download as complete just because the torrent file has been completely downloaded r234: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found r236: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found r238: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found Bug fixes: r206: Make the output of "video.py length" more friendly r208: Release man pages as well r214: Fix a bug introduced in r210 which broke bittorrent downloads r228: Fix…

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MythTV Chapter Ready: Introduction

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The Introduction chapter of the online MythTV book is now ready. This chapter covers the definition of a personal video recorder (PVR), the components of such a system, the various alternatives that are available, why MythTV might be the right choice, and briefly explains the MythTV version number scheme. Thanks to Michael Carden for doing a review on this chapter.

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Introducing the online MythTV book

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When parts of the first edition of the MythTV book became out of date, I decided to take the book online and ask others to help me improve it and bring it up to date. There is a blog for announcements, at http://mythtvbook.com/blog and if you're interested in helping out, please visit the Help Wanted page. This book does not aim to be a complete reference to MythTV or a guide for how to develop plug-in modules for MythTV. Although we include a brief overview of the major features of MythTV, we explore only those parts of MythTV that are relevant to the projects in this book, which will include all the parts of MythTV that an average user will be interested in. It will also give you an excellent grounding for further projects with MythTV as well. This book is intended as a hobbyist's project guide, providing suggestions about what sort of projects you could take on and how we went about implementing our own versions of those projects. Instead of including exhaustive coverage of features that few people use, we'll provide pointers to how to find out about those features, and we'll cover the 80 percent of MythTV's…

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