[mythtv-users] Need "life without cable" clarification

Lonnie Borntreger myth at borntreger.com
Fri Jan 7 21:03:50 UTC 2011


Made a family decision to cancel cable... so I'm - for the first time in 
20+ years - reentering the exciting world of OTA TV.  This means that my 
5 tuners (two PVR-500s and a bttv) across three backends are about to 
become useless (I'm in California).

I've got a HDTV Wonder coming (and am investigating other OTA tuners), 
so I'll be able to play with recording ATSC signals and I've been 
looking at options of augmenting OTA with online video sources, like 
hulu, espn360, etc.

I read that MythTV (0.24 to be exact - I'm currently running 0.21) 
mentions being able to utilize online video sources. So here's what I 
need clarified.... am I understanding correctly that for online sources 
MythTV just becomes an RSS aggregator and opens a browser or the hulu 
desktop for viewing the online videos? Are there any options to have my 
MythTV backend download (like "record") online videos when they become 
available (if I "scheduled/subscribed" to the "show") for me to watch 
later using a frontend?

Thanks for bearing with me.
Lonnie Borntreger



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