development of open source home media server

development of open source home media server

FIFTH WEEK

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION


Mythtv is one of the open source software that integrated with the Ubuntu 12.04. MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR
 Alternatively, you users install by hand:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mythtv

Either way, it will take a few minutes to download and install. Recently, there have been a number of improvements to the installation process. It now pops up a few dialogues: It will ask you "Will other computers run MythTV?". If you answer "Yes" to this then you will be able to use other machines such as laptops to act as Myth Frontends. You will also be able to access recordings and other media using UPnP devices such as smartphones and PS3s. The installation process will generated a password for your user to log into the MySQL database. See the file /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt. You won't need this yet, but it's worth bearing in mind.MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems. MythTV is known to work on Linux and Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It does not run on Windows.

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