Posted by Citizen Bob on 10/02/06 19:14

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:39:50 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
wrote:

>Take a look at MythTV, you could pick up a couple of low cost HDTV tuner cards
>from Ebay and use it with Myth and basically have a Tivo like setup on your
>computer capable of recording in HDTV and burning to DVD.

>http://www.mythtvtalk.com/mythtv.php

On another forum there is this:

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Wiley's ExtremeTech series has released a new MythTV title, Hacking
MythTV by Jarod Wilson et al.

Roll up your sleeves and get ready to build your own HD-DVR with
MythTV. Our experts not only guide you through building your own
MythTV box, but let you in on all the little secrets, tricks and hacks
that make it look and work the way you want it to. Coverage includes:

Choosing the right hardware for the job - including HD capture cards
Working with 5.1 surround sound and optical audio outputs
Optimizing HDTV playback
Tweaks and hacks for various capture cards
Hacking MythTV themes
Using xine to add DVD menu support
Widescreen HDTV tweaks
Hacking the remote power button to reset MythTV's frontend
Exporting MythTV's .nuv recordings into other formats
Performance hacks

and more...

The complete outline and a sample chapter, as well as information on
the other books in the ExtremeTech series is available at
http://www.wiley.com/go/extremetech

Hacking MythTV
Jarod Wilson, Ed Tittel, Matthew Wright, Justin Korelc
ISBN: 0-470-03787-3
Paperback
432 pages

Available at bookstores everywhere and online retailers like
amazon.com
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you would have good people doing good things and evil
people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes govt. Govt is the root of all evil.

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