[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

Aaron Stewart acs at hourglassone.com
Fri Mar 19 19:46:23 EST 2004


Better yet, how about utilizing some swarm based download app (such as
bittorrent) to facilitate?

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:29, Örn Hansen wrote:
> fredag 19 mars 2004 10:15 skrev Simon Kenyon:
> > and another thing
> > if i can get my boxes set up this way - i will joing them in selling it
> > so maybe i'm not contributing much (very little in fact)
> > but i must spend about 1-2 hours a day on myth - fiddling; trying to get it
> > to work to a level that i *could* sell it
> >
>   The project is superb, there is one bug I've found and one showstopper.  The 
> bug is, that when I type R to record a live TV.  It will start recording, but 
> pressing R again, won't stop recording.
> 
>   The showstopper, is XMLTV.  I'm in sweden, and the latest tv_grab_sn was 
> sabotaged by the tv guide provider site, and the newest grabber is also 
> seemingly getting sabotage as well.  Why, the given sites are sabotaging 
> this, is just as much your guess as mine... but the deliberate action of 
> stopping xmltv from getting the tv guide, is a fact.  And while MythTV relies 
> on such mechanism ... it's a showstopper.  The only solution, if one intends 
> to sell a ready made Linux box with MythTV on it, is to create a site that is 
> updated daily with the given program guides and let MythTV download from 
> there.  In this way, there is no sabotage taking place...
> 
> > when was the last time you paid linus?
> >
>   I buy SuSE distribution, and let them worry about the details.  That's also 
> how I see it, percentage of sales being donated to the founders.
> 
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