Open Source Speaker Series: Practical MythTV

Google Tech Talks August 16, 2007 ABSTRACT MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder. It records television off the air, plays downloaded media files, DVDs, and audio files. It also includes a web browser, RSS reader, weather applet, and much more. During this talk Michael will introduce MythTV, show off the frontend interface, MythWeb, talk about the current challenges with guide data in the United States, and discuss some of the upcoming features. Michael is a coauthor of "Practical MythTV", which was published in April 2007. Michael Still is currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Before that, he was a senior software engineer at TOWER Software in Australia. For many...