mythtv

mythfs-0.3.1

Posted Tue, June 2nd, 2009 - 08:06 by michielf
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A new version of MythFS. Besides a lot of code improvements, this version supports the deletion of recordings. The recordings will be deleted by communicating with the native protocol to the MythTV backend. Therefore, MythFS now speaks the native protocol.

Everybody familiar with MythTV will know, that this protocol changes for each version of MythTV and that protocol versions are incompatible. MythFS currently speaks protocol version 40 and 44. In case you want to use MythFS with a MythTV version that speaks another version of the protocol, please install the most recent version of MythFS, run mythfsdump > mythfsdump.out and email me the output saved in mythfsdump.out. The output contains enough information for me to reverse engineer your version of the MythTV protocol and to release an update.

As always, the most recent release of MythFS is found on Sourceforge.

MythFS: MythTV the Unix way

Posted Sun, April 26th, 2009 - 16:04 by michielf
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This little tool can be used to make MythTV recordings easily accessible to
programs without implementing any interface towards MythTV, because each
recording is just a file. After mounting the filesystem, a virtual directory
structure is created with 3 top entries: Programs, Dates and Channels. All
recordings appear as directories and files in this tree. Currently, the only
operations supported are:

  • browsing the directory tree
  • reading individual recordings
  • deleting recordings (for protocol versions 40 and 44)

History

I wrote MythFS, because I really like the MythTV backend and Mythweb, but I am
not too enthousiastic about the MythTV frontend. I am using XBMC
(http://www.xbmc.org/) on an Apple TV to view the recordings and somehow none
of the offered interfaces towards Myth suit my needs: the native XBMC interface
(myth://mythtv:mythtv@192.168.1.1) crashes my backend, the Python script
mythbox (http://mythbox.googlecode.com/) and finaly the UPNP interface (which
functioned really well in XBMC on my Xbox) does not allow seeking in
recordings.

Linux Server Adventures

Posted Fri, March 30th, 2007 - 21:03 by michielf
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The pieces apartThe pieces apart
Just over three years after I installed my first linux server at home, I decided to replace my old AMD Athlon XP based server with a faster and newer one.

I started compiling a list with components, with these requirements in mind:

  • All components should be as modern as possible: no ATA anymore, no floppy disk and as less PCI card as possible. I tried to replace them in favor of SATA, memory card reader and PCIe.
  • I still need at least 2 PCI slots for my TV card (Hauppauge PVR-500) and my ISDN card
  • Everything well supported under Linux
  • Able to host a lot of disk space. My MythTV recordings, mp3 collection and digital photo archive keeps growing and I had to be more and more creative to fit everything in my old server. So, the more disks the better
  • Enough computing power to transcode video quickly (I tend to recode a lot of Myth recording to be able to view then on my Nokia 770)

This was the result:

  • Antec P180B Case
  • Antec Neo HE 430 Power Supply