The Hard Way: Installing MythTV From Source is now ready. In fact, its been ready for quite a while, but I have been trying to blog about the finished chapters in the right order, so it has been trapped in the queue. This chapter discusses how to compile MythTV from source code, which is useful…
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How I plan on handling Ubuntu and Mythbuntu 9.04
Ubuntu and Mythbuntu 9.04 have recently been released, and this makes some of the current content for the online MythTV book out of date. The way I plan on handling this is to keep going with the current version 8.10 content, and then update chapters to 9.04 later. This way I don’t delay the overall…
MythTV Chapter Ready: The Hard Way: Installing Ubuntu
The next chapter, The Hard Way: Installing Ubuntu is now ready. This chapter took a lot longer than I wanted because I was distracted by some stuff in my personal life, but I am hoping that the authoring process is now back on track. This chapter covers how to install Ubuntu so that you can…
Restricting anonymous edits
Because of two examples of wiki spam today, I am restricting anonymous edits. From now on you will be required to have a wiki account before you can make an edit. That doesn’t seem all that onerous to me, and lets me avoid having to deal with spam.
MythTV Chapter Ready: The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu
The The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu chapter is now ready. This chapter provides an overview of a basic MythBuntu installation, which is something which wasn’t covered at all in Practical MythTV, as MythBuntu wasn’t ready at the time. MythBuntu provides a simple installation and configuration option for those people who want to build a new…
Looking for a logo
I’m not a very graphical person, so I’m looking for someone to help me with a logo for the online MythTV book project — specifically I need something to replace this image: I hope you agree that the current logo lacks a certain… something. A simple logo which somehow says “book about MythTV” would be…
MythTV Chapter Ready: Selecting Hardware
The Selecting Hardware chapter is now ready. This chapter details the benefits of starting small, how to select the right hardware for a MythTV system if you’re building one from scratch, and what the authors use for their MythTV systems. This chapter was originally written by Stewart Smith, and this version was reviewed by Josh…
MythTV Chapter Ready: Introduction
The Introduction chapter of the online MythTV book is now ready. This chapter covers the definition of a personal video recorder (PVR), the components of such a system, the various alternatives that are available, why MythTV might be the right choice, and briefly explains the MythTV version number scheme. Thanks to Michael Carden for doing…
Introducing the online MythTV book
When parts of the first edition of the MythTV book became out of date, I decided to take the book online and ask others to help me improve it and bring it up to date. There is a blog for announcements, at http://mythtvbook.com/blog and if you’re interested in helping out, please visit the Help Wanted…
Packing
It’s time for Catherine and I to start thinking of packing for the move, and as ever it’s a barrel of laughs. We’ve made the decision that there is a bunch of stuff which we’re not going to bother to take with us… Mainly things like reference books which I haven’t used in years, but…