Linux Home Theatre: MythTV and XBMC Rene Bartosh

Tonights Talk ● Features ● Selecting Hardware ● The EPG Issue ● Configuration ● Demo ● Resources / Further Info

Features - MythTV ● Watching live TV ● Timeshifting ● Scheduling Recordings ● Onscreen programme guide ● Teletext ● Ability to run over a network

Features - XBMC ● Provides a visually appealing 10ft user interface to your media (music/movies/tv shows/photos) ● Automatically scrapes data from online sources (such as posters, DVD covers, plot summaries, cast lists etc) ● Weather plugin ● Can be operated via remote control

Selecting Hardware ● Backend vs Frontend – specs ● HD Video/type of display ● Type of TV reception ● Freeview (DVB-S) ● Freeview|HD (DVB-S) ● Sky or analog TV (MPEG Encoder card + blaster) ● Remote ● Disc space (2.5GB/hr for Freeview SD)

The EPG Issue ● Freeview ● 10 days automatically available over the air ● Freeview|HD, Sky or analog TV ● Have to use an online source, scraper, satellite EPG or third party software to extract from MHEG ● ● ●

My Setup Backend/Main Frontend ● 2.7GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core CPU ● 2GB RAM ● 300GB HDD ● Nvidia GeForce 7300 Graphics Card (tv/dvi/vga) ● Technisat Skystar2 DVB-S PCI card ● HP Media Center Remote (MCE compatible) ● Ubuntu 10.04, MythTV , XBMC 9.11

My Setup Remote Frontend/Second XBMC instance ● Dell Studio 15 Laptop ● 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU ● 4GB RAM ● ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series ● 500GB HDD ● Ubuntu 10.04, MythTV , XBMC 9.11

Resources/Futher Info ● WLUG Wiki ● ● Linux-compatible DVB Cards ● ● Remotes ● Trademe or Pricespy ● Mythtvnz Mailing List ●