Peninsula Linux Users' Group this week - MythTV (Build your own TiVO-like box with Open Source tools)

Tue Jul 25 15:35:29 PDT 2006

PenLUG (Peninsula Linux Users' Group) is having a meeting the day
after tomorrow!  You are invited.  RSVP is not required, but so we can
get an idea of how many people to expect please send mail to
rsvp at penlug.org to let us know if you are planning to attend.  For
full details about the group, as well as directions to the meeting,
visit www.penlug.org.

Free pizza, hors d'ouvres and soft drinks, courtesy of Open Country,
will be provided.  Free review copies of books from O'Reilly,
Prentice-Hall, and other publishers, will be given out as door prizes.
 Be on time for the eary bird drawing.

Date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM
Location: Twin Pines Park, 1225 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002
Speaker: Scott Boyd
Topic: MythTV

MythTV is a GPL'd application that allows you to create a super
digital video recorder (DVR) on top of Linux that requires no monthly
subscription fees. For a reasonably complete description see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythTV

The MythTV project page is located at: http://www.mythtv.org/

A 2 tuner standard definition analog system will be demonstrated.
Topics include:

    * How it works
    * Basic use demonstration
    * How and where to get free TV show listings
    * Video resolution, bit rates, file sizes and video quality
    * Burning DVDs of your recordings
    * Transcoding video files
    * Storing, indexing and playing your Music CD collection in the system
    * Controlling the system via the web
    * Q and A.

A shopping list of components that are known to work will be provided.

Scott Boyd is an freelance consultant and an owner of A-Street
Internet a 10 year old store front Internet Service Provider located
in San Carlos, California. Scott has consulted with many valley
companies such as Sun, Oracle, Cisco, HP, and others including the
infamous Kibu. Scott has worked with Unix since Unisoft Version 7 and
Linux since November 1991.