[mythtv-users] Other Myth uses and Best Features

[Jason]

To add to and extend this thread,  in addition to the DVR feature, I've
used MythArchive to copy all of my sons baby einstein and blues clues
DVDs to one DVD that we can travel with.  I use the time stretch feature
in the internal video player to play all of my shows at 1.5 to 1.85
speed (short attention span) and I have xscreensaver doing it's thing
and protecting my TV when my wife forgets to turn it off.  I honestly
think Myth is one of the top 5 greatest pieces of software ever written.
It has made my life simpler and allows me to do more things, which
should be the hallmark of anything great.

Ok, enough kissing arse.

Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet



Andrew Davis wrote:
> Just a note to share...
>
> After getting my "full blown" Myth box running, I realized I use it more 
> to store and view my DVD and MP3 collection than anything else. I 
> already have two DVRs provided to me by my cable company... both of 
> which can have the hard drives upgraded easily enough (one came with 
> only a 40GB IDE drive... I put in a 160Gb and upon reboot it found it, 
> formatted it, and now records a lot more). The TV recording of Myth is 
> nice, but its also sort of overkill for me personally, though I miss the 
> feature of being able to search for the phrase "billiards", then record 
> everything (my Cox provided DVR won't do this). At the end of the day, 
> though, I decided on a simpler route... I installed the entire MythTV 
> solution onto my laptop. I personally think that Myth is a great 
> frontend to all the individual programs that it uses... so now, rather 
> than switch between XMMS, Xine, Ogle, mplayer, etc... I use my laptop 
> for work and if I want to watch a movie or listen to music, etc, I just 
> fire up MythTV and use it for movies, MP3's, etc. I installed both the 
> backend and frontend onto the laptop and can successfully have both 
> running and playing MP3's while also running Firefox, Thunderbird, 
> Evolution, OpenOffice and multiple SSH sessions, as well as tsclient. 
> Its a very nice solution. To keep things in sync, I have a copy of my 
> MP3's and DVDs on another server at home and simply rsync the new stuff 
> from the laptop back to the server.
>
> Related, I'm trying out a smaller, a-open type solution for my Yukon. We 
> already have the in-dash/in-headrest setup with GPS and satellite radio 
> in the front and a PS2/Xbox/DVD player for the back, but as I hit 
> speedbumps and such, the DVDs tend to skip. I'm thinking that wiring a 
> small PC to the touchscreen would be a great solution (both monitors in 
> the headrests are touchscreens with Linux support). In this case, the 
> Yukon has a wireless card in its PC and a script to rsync the data from 
> the server to the Yukon's PC. All I have to do is park in the garage or 
> on the driveway to be in range, then fire up a script. This makes all my 
> movies and music available on the road and since the PC still has a DVD 
> drive, the kids can also put in their CDs and DVDs. Again, I'm not using 
> the TV function (though with a DirecTV antenna on the roof I could), but 
> I'm just using it for media playback for the kids and music for myself. 
> Seems to work great... the newer SATAII drive I'm using handles the 
> speed bumps and rough roads much better than a DVD in the main system. 
> :) And best of all, with my Kyocera KR1 and KPC650, anywhere I can get 
> an EVDO connection, I can get internet which means the Myth box can 
> still update weather, newsfeeds, rss, etc...
>
> So just a thought to the hackers out there... MythTV doesn't just have 
> to do TV or live in your living room. It can be a simple solution for 
> archiving DVDs and MP3's... or watching movies in a vehicle... or 
> watching movies from a laptop while on a flight across the US. 
> Ironically, over the years I've followed the work and projects of LiVid, 
> LinDVD, Xine, Ogle, mplayer, etc. I've seen a select few laptops (namely 
> one from IBM and one from HP) include Linux and a s/w DVD player. But in 
> the end, upgrading was a pain and they all had some drawback (I recall 
> even recently Xine lacking DVD menu support and Ogle being unable to 
> "stop" a DVD). In that sense, MythTV is a good looking, working solution 
> for playing DVDs (encrypted or not), listening to MP3's, etc. In fact, I 
> think companies like Lenovo and HP should consider a big "screw you" to 
> the likes of LinDVD, Intervideo, etc and consider installing MythTV on 
> their pre-installed Linux laptops. Of course, due to licensing and such, 
> they never will... but still... :)
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