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Once I blogged about MythTV client for Nokia’s Internet Tablet Nokia770/N800/N810. It was a good chance to watch LiveTV directly on the device. Now I found that the full MythTV front-end was ported to Maemo. It was possible because MythTV was moved to Qt4 (version 0.22 will use it). Author said that Maemo’s port works fine with MythTV 0.21 server. Also he promised to port back-end as well. I think that it’s useless but maybe somebody know how to use it in a practice.

By the way, I use now VDR. So, I’m really interested to have its front-end on N810.

[via MythTV News]

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Since many video sources have aspect ratio still 4:3 it might be a good idea to detect it and set appropriate value automatically to avoid displaying black frame on your wide screen TV. Here is a patch for the MythTV 0.20 which can do this work.

[via MythTV News]

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According to MythTV News the plug-in Mythweather was redesigned and added to SVN. So, if you’re using MythTV built from the sources you can see the new style of that plug-in. For the rest here is a new Mythweather screenshot:

Also the release of MythTV 0.21 is getting closer. Most probably we’ll be able to install or upgrade the new version of MythTV this month.

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As MythMaemo developers promised they implemented following features: program guide (EPG) support, creation of reminds (with alarm), manage of schedule record. Currently the changes are available in Subversion repository only but the package will be released on January.

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MythTV - a well-known open source software for media centers is based on Linux. If you’re interested at least to playback its files on windows have a look MythTV Filters for Windows on SourceForge. The main goal of that project is “to make almost any mediaplayer able to handle mythtv files including streaming files from the backend and watching LiveTV”.

[via MythtvNews]

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