Hi Ken, On June 20, 2008 Ken Mays wrote: > I originally worked on porting MythTV to Solaris about 1-2 years ago but > OpenSolaris was still very fresh and XSun for Solaris 8/9/10 wasn't > sufficient for the port back then. Many people have Xbox 360 and Playstation > 3 units, but a few limitations exist on expanding these units or require more > expensive hardware purchases instead of today's inexpensive COTS parts. > > What started as the "ultimate gaming rig for OpenSolaris" spawned a "ultimate > set-top box for OpenSolaris" project. We just got the SoundBlaster X-Fi card > registered under HCL and now Nvidia has provided beta drivers for the GTX 280 > video card. Slowly, more device drivers are being added to the Sun repository > which makes things a bit easier than before. > > So, a bit of hardware engineering gives us a nice two-tuner set-top unit > design and a review of MythTV for OpenSolaris. > > This subject has to do with desktop engineering and multimedia software > applications dealing with TV recording/playback/editing using > OpenSolaris-based distros. > > I'll get back to this once SongBird is officially in the Sun IPS repository. > :o) >
Now that SongBird is in the repository, any update in status? :) -Bob > ~ Ken Mays > > > ------ > What is MythTV? > 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. > > MythTV has a number of capabilities. The television portion allows you to do > the following: > > - You may pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television. > - You may install multiple video capture cards to record more than one > program at a time. > - You can have multiple servers (called "backends"), each with multiple > capture cards in them. All scheduling is performed by the Master backend, > which arbitrates which recording will be performed by each device. All > recording requests are managed by the Master backend, so you can schedule a > recording from any client. > - You can have multiple clients (called "frontends" in MythTV parlance), each > with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any > program that was recorded by any of the servers, assuming that they have the > hardware capabilities to view the content; a low-powered frontend will not be > able to watch HDTV, for example. Clients can be diskless and controlled > entirely by a remote control. > - You may use any combination of standard analog capture card, MPEG-2, MJPEG, > DVB, HDTV, USB and firewire capture devices. With appropriate hardware, > MythTV can control set top boxes, often found in digital cable and satellite > TV systems. > - Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from schedulesdirect.org, > a non-profit organization which has licensed data from Tribune Media > Services. This service provides 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. > MythTV implements a UPNP server, so a UPNP client should automatically see > content from your MythTV system. > > Other modules in MythTV include: > - MythArchive, a tool to create DVDs > - MythBrowser, a web browser > - MythControls, an application to configure your remote control > - MythFlix, a Netflix module > - MythGallery, a picture-viewing application > - MythGame > - MythMusic, a music playing / ripping application which supports MP3 and > FLAC > - MythNews, a RSS news grabber > - MythPhone, phone and videophone using SIP. > - MythVideo, DVD ripper and a media-viewer for content not created within > MythTV > - MythWeather > MythWeb, which allows you to control your MythTV system using a web browser. > With MythWeb, you can schedule and delete recordings, change keybindings and > more. With proper security, you may even schedule a program over the Internet > and have it immediately acted on by the Master backend. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
