Wonder if I could hack this into a slave back end/front end? Kind of strange that a company that caters to the Linux community so much has a .asp link.

I’ve got this pipe dream of selling MythTV setups to people with some cash to burn, and of course I’m always trying to come up with better ways to do things. I thought about utilizing a USB plugin device for Windows/Mac machines. Since there are now USB TV Tuners I know the video can be pushed over USB which is making me think a device like this ( Read more... )

Finally. The simultanious encoding and decoding of a media stream while writing to disk with a few other programs in the background was more than my P IV 1.7 Ghz could handle (Warbird). But in reference to yesterdays question I got it working and it rocks! I need to compile the plugins for the remote backend now and I'm good to go. Right now I' ( Read more... )

I installed MythTV from SVN recently, it appears to have fixed my database disconnect issue, the official "stable" version is still broke. While I was at it, I decided to install some of the plugins. I'm really liking the looks of this. There's a video games section that lets you put a front end on video game engines. I've got it using ZSNES ( Read more... )

Remember my MythTV MySQL problem? I never figured out a proper fix, recompiling MythTV and doing a full reinstall of MySQL after deleting old configs didn't fix it. I just pulled a nasty hack to hopefully keep it running while I'm on the road, I setup cron jobs to kill and restart the backend shortly after 3:00 AM AND PM ( Read more... )

reason I ask for a MySQL expert is a goofy problem I've been having a newer MythTV may or may not solve. The program works fine. Occasionally however it "loses" it's database connection and stops doing things automatically. I can log into the program and watch recorded shows, which I can't do without the backend running, but when I notice it ( Read more... )

Now all I need is a TV card that isn't crappy. I've tested time shifting and recording just fine. Unfortunately if it's recording it's playing on my speakers, and I don't have another system to dedicate to this function with a fast enough CPU so it has to be on this one. DVRs were never so cheap.