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Using A Myth Box From Day To Day

Ah, yes; the part you've all been waiting for.  :-)

This section identifies all the things you can do with a MythTV unit, and explains how they work and how to control them. Hopefully, it will also identify things which can be done more than one way, and point out the most effective choice (and why you might want to do it another way anyway).

MythTV is, as we've said, a very capable, powerful, and most of all expandable system. The practical effect of this is that as we go along, we will describe things which can only be done with more than the basic configuration, or which work differently if you have more than the basic configuration.

Watching Live TV

MythTV offers some of the most sought after features of modern Media Centres.

1. Pause Live TV

By Pressing Pause Key on your remote the picture will freez, and MythTv will start to buffer live TV to the hard drive. An On Screen Display (OSD) will appear showing seconds behind realtime TV as well as how much live TV has been

Press the Pause Key a second time to unpause live tv, you will now be watching behind live TV. This is referred to as Chase TV Playback for obvious reasons.

Press the Right Cursor Key to move in the stream

Press the " Left Cursor" Key to move backwards in the stream

2. Chase TV Playback

3. Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)

4. Concurrent Channel Watching

Recording Live TV

Managing Recordings

Transcoding Recordings

Archiving Recordings