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Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC
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MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder (PVR) application
that runs on Linux. Developed for several years by volunteers, it offers a stable
and extensible platform for automating all of the things you would expect from
a PVR, and much more.
Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC takes a project-based
approach to implementing your own MythTV setup. You get to pick and choose the
functionality you want to install for your PVR, and will learn the details of
everything from selecting hardware to advanced customization.
You will learn how to record your favorite television shows, store your DVDs
for later playback, create a music library out of your CD collection, and even
use your PVR for Voice over IP. Your PVR wouldn’t be complete without a
remote control or the ability to play back content to other TVs in your home.
You’ll learn how to do both of these things in this book. You’ll even
learn to how to utilize your Xbox as a remote front end to play back content.
Beyond these basics, you will learn advanced techniques like commercial detection
and skipping, auto-expiring content, creating your own themes for MythTV, and
utilizing plug-ins to do things like display weather conditions, RSS feeds,
and photo slide shows.
Table of Contents
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Introducing MythTV
Chapter 2 Getting Ready for the Install
Chapter 3 Installing MythTV
Chapter 4 Recording TV
Chapter 5 Performing Advanced TV Recording
Chapter 6 Exploring MythTV Functionality
Chapter 7 Setting Up MythTV Themes
Chapter 8 Running Remote Frontends
Chapter 9 Installing Other Plug-Ins
Chapter 10 Expanding MythTV
Chapter 11 Using MythWeb: A Web Interface to MythTV
Chapter 12 Working with DVDs
Chapter 13 Controlling MythTV over the Network and
On-Screen Displays
Chapter 14 MythPhone: Using VoIP with MythTV
Chapter 15 Joining the MythTV Community
Index
About the Authors
Stewart Smith is an Australian and a software engineer working for MySQL
AB on MySQL Cluster. He started being a serious Linux user in the days of MkLinux
pre-DR3 and remembers being thrilled with the arrival of a driver for his floppy
drive. In 2003, he first saw TiVo and realized that TV could be made not to
suck. Stewart had MythTV running very soon after that and has enjoyed enlightenment
ever since. He has always liked writing his own software and continues to enjoy
doing so. He is also involved in the local LUG (LUV—Linux Users of Victoria)
and has been on the board of Linux Australia from 2003 to the present.
Michael Still released his first open source project in July 2000 and
has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published
by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a tux out of fairy lights! He is the author
of the recently published The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Apress, 2005).
Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia, and now works for Google and lives in
the Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member
of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.
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