Open Source Speaker Series: Practical MythTV

Google Tech Talks
August 16, 2007

ABSTRACT

MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder. It records television off the air, plays downloaded media files, DVDs, and audio files. It also includes a web browser, RSS reader, weather applet, and much more. During this talk Michael will introduce MythTV, show off the frontend interface, MythWeb, talk about the current challenges with guide data in the United States, and discuss some of the upcoming features. Michael is a coauthor of "Practical MythTV", which was published in April 2007.

Michael Still is currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Before that, he was a senior software engineer at TOWER Software in Australia. For many...

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[ebenblues]

MythTV is currently at version 0.20 (production versions begin at 1.0). For such a low version number, it has an incredibly rich set of features. It definitely requires some effort to get it working, but once you have it working, it's consistent, and offers more than a standard Tivo system does.

[bmtimv]

lol possibly the worst presentation ive ever seen

[CaptainClass]

:D Just watch 10:00-12:00. That about sums MythTV up.