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Description:
MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the
mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software
and operating systems. MythTV is known to work on Linux and Mac OS X
(PowerPC and Intel). It does not run on Windows.
MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to
do the following:
You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.
You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one
program at a time.
You can have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in
them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the
Master backend.
You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance),
each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any
program that was recorded by any of the servers, assuming that they have the
hardware capabilities to view the content; a low-powered frontend will not
be able to watch HDTV, for example. Clients can be diskless and controlled
entirely by a remote control.
You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2,
MJPEG, DVB, HDTV, USB and firewire capture devices. With appropriate
hardware, MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and
satellite TV systems.
Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from Zap2It.com, a
subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called
DataDirect, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information.
Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses
this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs
that can be recorded if you don't have enough tuners.
MythTV implements a UPNP server, so a UPNP client should automatically
see content from your MythTV system.
Other modules in MythTV include:
MythArchive, a tool to create DVDs
MythBrowser, a web browser
MythControls, an application to configure your remote control
MythDVD, a DVD viewer / ripper
MythFlix, a Netflix module
MythGallery, a picture-viewing application
MythGame
MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3
and FLAC
MythNews, a RSS news grabber
MythPhone, phone and videophone using SIP.
MythVideo, a media-viewer for content not created within MythTV
MythWeather
MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web
browser. With MythWeb, you can schedule and delete recordings, change
keybindings and more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program
over the Internet and have it immediately acted on by the scheduler.
MythTV UI ported to new MythUI library with all new capabilities
VDPAU Video renderer and decoder for hardware accelerated playback of H.264, MPEG-1/2, WMV, and VC-1
DVB-S2 support
Support for the Hauppauge HD-PVR
HDHomeRun Multirec support
New channel scanner
All new default UI theme and OSD theme
Mythvideo now has season/episode support, fanart, banners, screenshots and much, much more
Added Automatic Prioritization to the scheduler which uses watching behavior to automatically increase priority of shows that are watched close to their recording timeslot over shows that are delayed for longer periods of time. See [16477] for details until the wiki page is populated.
Major changes
Windows port improvements
Mythbrowser now uses webkit and has no dependencies on KDE libs
MythMusic has fewer external dependencies
MythTV switches from Qt 3.4 to Qt 4.4 libraries [16790] (No changes affecting end-user!)
