Scott Boyd, MythTV

MythTV is a GPL'd application that allows you to create a super digital video recorder (DVR) on top of Linux that requires no monthly subscription fees. For a reasonably complete description see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythTV

The MythTV project page is located at:

http://www.mythtv.org/

A 2 tuner standard definition analog system will be demonstrated. Topics include:

• How it works
• Basic use demonstration
• How and where to get free TV show listings
• Video resolution, bit rates, file sizes and video quality
• Burning DVDs of your recordings
• Transcoding video files
• Storing, indexing and playing your Music CD collection in the system
• Controlling the system via the web
• Q and A.

A shopping list of components that are known to work will be provided.

Scott Boyd is an freelance consultant and an owner of A-Street Internet a 10 year old store front Internet Service Provider located in San Carlos, California. Scott has consulted with many valley companies such as Sun, Oracle, Cisco, HP, and others including the infamous Kibu. Scott has worked with Unix since Unisoft Version 7 and Linux since November 1991.

Video of the Meeting

We have not one, but two video recordings of this meeting!

Alex Grundner's video of the presentation can be seen embedded here:

Bill Ward's video of the presentation can be seen embedded here:

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