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MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project that is designed to run on Linux, although other operating system packages are available. With MythTV you can watch live TV, schedule recordings, view episode guide information, and many other features you'd expect from a DVR type device. MythTV can also be setup with multiple backends (master/slave) and multiple frontends to spread out the workload of recording, scheduling, and post processing jobs. More information on MythTV can be found on their [http://www.mythtv.org/ official] website. | MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project that is designed to run on Linux, although other operating system packages are available. With MythTV you can watch live TV, schedule recordings, view episode guide information, and many other features you'd expect from a DVR type device. MythTV can also be setup with multiple backends (master/slave) and multiple frontends to spread out the workload of recording, scheduling, and post processing jobs. More information on MythTV can be found on their [http://www.mythtv.org/ official] website. | ||
==Important notes about MythTV== | ==Important notes about MythTV add-on== | ||
*The MythTV PVR Addon for XBMC is not currently in the official PVR repository. It can be found on this fork: https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons and is expected to be in the official repo as soon as the builds stabilize. | *The MythTV PVR Addon for XBMC is not currently in the official PVR repository. It can be found on this fork: https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons and is expected to be in the official repo as soon as the builds stabilize. | ||
*Supported MythTV Backend version: up to 0.25. | *Supported MythTV Backend version: up to 0.25. | ||
*This addon uses the Transifex Localization platform. You're welcome to contribute translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/pvrmythtvcmyth/ | |||
*Please go to the page [[PVR/MythTV/BuildFromSource|Build addon from source]] to learn how to build addon from official git repository | |||
==Setting up MythTV== | ==Setting up MythTV== | ||
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==Settings== | ==Settings== | ||
*Rest of page will be about setting up this backend's PVR add-on | |||
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Revision as of 18:10, 17 October 2012
MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project that is designed to run on Linux, although other operating system packages are available. With MythTV you can watch live TV, schedule recordings, view episode guide information, and many other features you'd expect from a DVR type device. MythTV can also be setup with multiple backends (master/slave) and multiple frontends to spread out the workload of recording, scheduling, and post processing jobs. More information on MythTV can be found on their official website.
Important notes about MythTV add-on
- The MythTV PVR Addon for XBMC is not currently in the official PVR repository. It can be found on this fork: https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons and is expected to be in the official repo as soon as the builds stabilize.
- Supported MythTV Backend version: up to 0.25.
- This addon uses the Transifex Localization platform. You're welcome to contribute translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/pvrmythtvcmyth/
- Please go to the page Build addon from source to learn how to build addon from official git repository
Setting up MythTV
MythTV can be setup on a variety of Linux distributions. The MythTV Wiki page has several pages of detailed instruction sets for various distros and tuner types. Some of the more popular ones include:
- Fedora and CentOS
- Debian
- Ubuntu
Settings
- Rest of page will be about setting up this backend's PVR add-on