2011.04.18
Meeting Minutes
MythTV - Open source DVR (digital video recorder)
Wes Hardaker
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch
(Davis Public Library)
Photos by Bill Kendrick
Getting ready for Wes's talk.
Wes started out with a TiVo.
Wes's old, 1st generation TiVo box.
One of the tuner cards Wes uses in his MythTV box.
Bottom of tuner card...
Top of tuner card...
MythTV's architecture includes front-ends and back-ends, and a MySQL database.
This lets you set up multiple MythTV systems around the house or office,
record or post-process on different systems, etc.
Wes's MythTV system (at his house), as seem via its web interface
(shown live, during the demo at the library).
What's on tonight?
MythTV makes your videos highly accessible (download over the web,
scale them down for mobile devices and post as a Podcast/RSS feed, etc.!)
Viewing details about a show, with tons of options on how, when and why
to record it, etc.
One of the front-end themes.
Another front-end theme.
Recording schedule (what will be recorded).
A brief live demo of the MythTV front-end interface, freshly installed
and running on Wes's laptop!
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