Linux.com Article: Using Windows, Xbox, and iPod as Alternative MythTV Front Ends
Originally published at www.linux.com on December 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM; reprinted with the author’s permission. Digital video recorders (DVR) are becoming more and more mainstream. TiVo, in fact, has passed the truest test of any popular technology — having its name transformed into a verb. MythTV, a free and open source application that lets you turn a computer into a DVR, burst on the scene a few years ago, and has found fans among Linux users. However, with a little effort, it’s possible to run MythTV front ends on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Xbox, and even an Apple iPod Classic. When MythTV first emerged, only the bravest of the open source faithful dared to try it. Few had the specific hardware to make it work, let alone the...
Myth Works! All the Weather, All the Time
I found it. And was subsequently able to record over 12 Gigs of The Weather Channel! Yippie! (That was just the channel I left it on for testing.) Ok, here’s how it went down: I finally swallowed my pride and dug through the mythtv-backend.log. Well, actually, I opened up a terminal, switched to Myth, tried to watch Live TV, and then used “tail /var/log/mythtv/mythtv-backend.log” to see what just happened. Much easier than “digging.” Anyway, I got the following junk: 2008-06-20 12:52:10.501 TVRec(2): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2008-06-20 12:52:10.531 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2 2008-06-20 12:52:10.797 SampleRate: Attempted to add a rate 32000 Hz, which is not in the list of allowed...
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