{"id":67,"date":"2005-11-26T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steenhagen.us\/~jake\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-02-01T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:25:55","slug":"mythtv-like-tivo-wno-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/mythtv-like-tivo-wno-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"MythTV — Like TiVO w\/no subscription!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had heard about this thing called MythTV<\/a> a couple of times when looking at posts on Slashdot<\/a>, mostly when issues regarding TiVO<\/a> came up, but I had never looked into it until recently. Then my wife mentioned that she kinda wanted a TiVO and that got me started with a more in depth look. From what I could tell, the easiest thing to do was through a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350<\/a> into a semi-decent computer, install linux, then install MythTV. Easy, right?<\/p>\n

So I used Froogle<\/a> to find the cheapest price on a WinTV 350 card that I could. Once it arrived, I followed Jarod Wilson’s giude to installing MythTV on Fedora Core 4<\/a>. Over the course of the next two days (a lot of the time was spent on waiting for installs and downloads) I got MythTV 90% of the way there. I couldn’t seem to get the sound to work. So I emailed<\/a> the MythTV users list<\/a> and discovered that I missed an option in the setup to use the PVR 350 for video out and for sound. Oops.<\/p>\n

So now I have a working MythTV installation that allows me to pause live TV and time-shift my viewing. I also have it set up so I can log in from anywhere on the Internet and set the box to record a show. So if I’m at my parent’s house and realize that if I stay any longer I’m gonna miss some show I’ve been wanting to watch, I can just log into my Myth box and set it to record!<\/p>\n

I still have a couple of little issues with Myth, but overall I love it. My current issues are (off the top of my head):<\/p>\n