I get a few support requests for MythNetTV, and I must admit that I sometimes get quite behind on my personal email, especially when I’m travelling. I’ve therefore created a mailing list for announcements and discussion in the hope that people will chat and come up with great ideas, as well as being able to…
Category: Mythtv
MythNetTV release 4
New things in this release: Removed gflags because people found it hard to find Bug fix patch from David Linville applied Fixed broken imports caused by refactoring Transcode not needed for avc1 and m4v Another bug fix patch from David Linville applied Store filesize in the db Removed some namespace imports I am not a…
Getting rid of cable TV?
I’m thinking of getting rid of comcast and getting a high def over the air tuner as well as a netflix subscription. I’d be interested in people’s opinions of netflix. I guess I’m just fed up with comcast’s woeful customer service, quite ordinary analog reception, and complete lack of any new programming. Its been about…
MythNetTV release 3
New things in this release: Started work on an RSS exporter for MythTV recordings DX50 doesn’t need transcode Tweaked supported video mime types so “Tikibar TV” and “Ask a ninja” work First cut of Bittorrent support Schema upgrades Archive recordings as well as importing them Improved –list output Subtitle restrictions on download as well Make…
init script
Jake Graft pointed out in a comment that I had forgotten to put the init script from the MythTV book online. My apologies. #! /bin/sh # # mythbackend # PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin BACKEND=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend BACKEND_NAME=mythbackend MYTHUSER=”myth” test -x $BACKEND || exit 0 set -e case “$1” in start) echo -n “Starting MythTV: $BACKEND_NAME” su ${MYTHUSER} -c “$BACKEND -v…
The book is doing ok
I must say I am pleased with the Amazon rank for the MythTV book. The ranks seem volatile though — the other day it was doing well in “Linux books”, now its doing well in “video books”.
Illegal download sites for the MythTV book
In the last week, I have discovered three download sites offering illegal downloads of the MythTV book e-book. If I can find three without really trying, I assume there are a lot more of them out there. This raises a question for which I don’t have a good answer. Do illegal downloads of books increase,…
MythNetTV release 2
This release has bug fixes (including code from “nickca” for FLV support), and some new minor features. Enjoy! Started working harder to ensure video filenames are unique once imported into MythTV, I now prepend video files with epoch seconds at time of import DIVX (not divx) doesn’t need transcode, added. Check for the existence of…
Schedules direct is live!
Ok, for those of us in the US, we’ll be glad to know that Schedules Direct is now live with two weeks to spare. It seems that the easiest way to perform the upgrade is to upgrade to 0.20.2, and then change the configuration to use SD instead of Zap2IT. Note that I haven’t done…
Guide data update
Its been a while since I have commented on the state of US guide data for MythTV here. That’s mainly been because I have been waiting for the situation to become more clear. At this stage there are some interesting things to report: zap2it shutdown is still slated for September 1, 2007 MythTV developers, and…