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<h1 id="title"><a title="Click to do a full-text search for this title" href="/community/MythTV?action=fullsearch&amp;value=linkto%3A%22MythTV%22&amp;context=180">MythTV</a></h1>
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<p><strong><img src="/community/MythTV?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=MythTV_logo.png" alt="MythTV_logo.png"> Contents</strong><br>
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<a href="#head-f318d635d91af389c3353a8da4f0b21b07559b40">Welcome to MythTV</a>
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<a href="#head-5c90afbe1e30cc1b14ba2badb41a8b170f37b24e">MythTV on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)</a>
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<h2 id="head-f318d635d91af389c3353a8da4f0b21b07559b40">Welcome to MythTV</h2>

<p>MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems. MythTV is known to work on Linux and Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It does not run on Windows. </p>
<p>MythTV's robust PVR functions allow you to do the following: </p>
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<li><p> You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television. </p>
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<li><p> You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one program at a time or use for picture-in-picture functions. </p>
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<li><p> You may watch and record SDTV and HDTV via firewire if you have a firewire-enabled cable or satellite tuner. </p>
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<li><p> You can have multiple servers (called "backends" in MythTV parlance), each with multiple capture cards in them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the Master backend. </p>
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<li><p> You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs. Each client can watch all programs recorded by any of the servers, assuming that they have the hardware capabilities to view the content; a low-powered frontend, for example, will not be able to watch HDTV. Clients can be diskless and controlled entirely by a remote control. </p>
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<li><p> You may use combinations of standard analog capture cards, MPEG-2, MJPEG, DVB, HDTV, USB and firewire capture devices. With a firewire capable backend, MythTV can control a variety of set top boxes often found in digital cable and satellite TV systems. </p>
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<li><p> Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from <a class="nonexistent" href="/community/Zap2It">Zap2It</a>.com, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Services. This free service is called <a class="nonexistent" href="/community/DataDirect">DataDirect</a>, and provides MythTV almost two weeks of scheduling information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV. MythTV uses this information to create a schedule that maximizes the number of programs that can be recorded if you don't have enough tuners. </p>
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<li><p> MythTV implements a UPNP server, so a UPNP client may automatically see content from your MythTV system.  N.B.: this feature has not been verified to work on every available UPNP client. </p>
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<li><p> Plugins from the MythTV community provide functionality for: DVDs, Personal Video Collection, Music, Weather, News, Gaming, Netflix and much, much more. </p>
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<h3 id="head-5c90afbe1e30cc1b14ba2badb41a8b170f37b24e">MythTV on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)</h3>

<p>MythTV Installation: <a href="/community/MythTV_Feisty">MythTV_Feisty</a> </p>
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<li><p> What's New <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Feisty_new"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> for Feisty Fawn</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Additional <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Feisty_hardware_list"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Hardware Setup and Information</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Video Drivers, MythTV configuration, add-on and maintenance information </p>
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<li><p> <em>For stand-alone mythtv setups</em> <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/Feisty"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Standalone What Next</a> </p>
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<li><p> <em>For regular desktop machines</em> <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/Feisty_D"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Desktop What Next</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Plugin Setup <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Live/Feisty+/Plugins"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Plugins</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Ubuntu specific <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Troubleshooting"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Troubleshooting </a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Additional <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_media_Feisty"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Media Support and codecs</a> </p>
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<h3 id="head-e8488a1209f25fb40b2acd56716145fac6a8383a">MythTV on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)</h3>

<p>MythTV Installation: <a href="/community/MythTV_Edgy">MythTV_Edgy</a> </p>
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<li><p> Additional Hardware <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_hardware"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Setup and Information</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Video Drivers, MythTV configuration, add-on and maintenance information <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/WhatNext/WNCombined"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> What Next</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Plugin Setup <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Plugins"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Plugins</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Additional <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_media"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Media Support</a> </p>
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<h3 id="head-2a56608dcf5409b60d0eb88cc0e54a4a4a3ad6c9">MythTV on Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS)</h3>

<p>MythTV Installation: <a href="/community/MythTV_Dapper">MythTV_Dapper</a> </p>
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<li><p> Additional Hardware <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Dapper_hardware"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Setup and Information</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Plugin Setup <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Dapper_Plugins"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Plugins</a> </p>
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<li class="gap"><p> Additional <a class="external" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_media"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Media Support</a> </p>
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<h3 id="head-3210269332bfcdcb57044f4051002a1061122343">Other MythTV on Ubuntu guides</h3>

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<li><p> Ubuntu 5.10 MythTV Installation: <a href="/community/MythTV_Breezy">MythTV_Breezy</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a href="/community/MythTV_Dapper2 Old MythTV Dapper Guide (Incomplete)">MythTV_Dapper2 Old MythTV Dapper Guide (Incomplete)</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Ubuntu Dapper Installation on the MythTV wiki</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://www.abarbaccia.com/"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> abarbaccia.com - Home of Ubuntu MythTV</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://hyams.webhop.net/mythtv/myth_ubuntu.html"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Installing MythTV on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) with a PVR-xxx Card</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://patrick.wagstrom.net/tutorials/mythTV64/mythTV64.xml"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> MythTV, Ubuntu, Athlon64, WinTVPVR, Comcast Digital Cable, and a pcHDTV HD-3000</a> </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://www.parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Ubuntu Edgy, Hauppauge Nova-T, DVB-T</a> - with screenshots </p>
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<li><p> <a class="external" href="http://www.animewine.com/index.php?entry=entry060720-151531"><img src="/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="16" width="16"> Installing MythTV on Dapper using an ATI TV-Wonder-Pro</a> - Includes a MythTV 0.18/MySQL 5 work-around. </p>
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<li><p> <a href="/community/InstallMythOnUbuntu">InstallMythOnUbuntu</a> </p>
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<p id="pageinfo" class="info" lang="en" dir="ltr">last edited 2007-04-12 04:28:56 by <span title="portablemario.student.iastate.edu">superm1</span></p>

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