[HN Gopher] MythTV 33 Released - open-source all-in-one DVR
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MythTV 33 Released - open-source all-in-one DVR
Author : cf100clunk
Score : 128 points
Date : 2023-02-06 15:56 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.mythtv.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.mythtv.org)
| kvandy wrote:
| Wow, had no idea this thing was still around. Takes me back to
| neo Kodi/XBMC/Windows ME days. So much hardware and software to
| accomplish what a small stick does today.
| cptskippy wrote:
| I tired for along time to get MythTV working with limited
| success. The Silicon Dust tuners were new at the time and support
| was spotty. I eventually gave up and used Windows MCE but it was
| limited to a single TV.
|
| I ended up replacing all of it with a 1st Gen TabloTV, Plex and a
| Roku. I'm still rocking that TabloTV today. There's something to
| be said for having an appliance that just works.
| patja wrote:
| I'm still rocking my 13 year old SageTV installation. Even the
| hardware clients are still working well. So grateful they were
| allowed to open source the software after Google acquired it.
| drewg123 wrote:
| I moved from MythTV to SageTV ~15 years ago or so, for the
| hardware client.
|
| A few months ago, I moved to Channels. What I like about it is
| it works really well on Firesticks and AppleTVs that I already
| have attached to my TVs, so that means I can finally get rid of
| the hardware sagetv clients (one of which I've had to replace
| the caps in) and simplify my setup.
|
| When looking to move last fall, I first looked at MythTV. It
| was still horrifically hard to setup. Given I'd never use a pc
| client, I then moved on to tvheadend, which had its own issues
| (mainly on the side of the kodi client). I finally settled on
| Channels because they have FreeBSD support for the server, and
| more importantly, It. Just. Works.
| ubertaco wrote:
| Can I run Channels for free if I selfhost everything, or do I
| still have to pay them a monthly fee?
| EricE wrote:
| They have an annual fee - well worth it though as it
| clearly funds development; the developers are VERY active
| and constantly updating/improving it.
| patja wrote:
| for me, Comskip is the killer feature I would be very sad to
| give up.
|
| With Channels do you have to manually FF through ads?
| drewg123 wrote:
| No, it also uses comskip. I should have mentioned that..
| gregmac wrote:
| I did the same!
|
| I ran MythTV on a PC connected to my TV for a while, but when
| I wanted to add a second TV I had a really hard time getting
| a decent fanless client at a reasonable cost (this was
| mid/late 2000's). I ended up switching to SageTV purely for
| the hardware client.
|
| A year or so after SageTV was acquired, I moved to Plex. The
| biggest miss was the hardware client. I went through several
| sub-par iterations of PC-based hardware -- including mini-ITX
| PCs and Raspberry Pi -- but never got a setup that could run
| Plex, Youtube and Netflix and work 100% without a
| keyboard/mouse involved. I also tried some hardware -- Roku,
| original Chromecast -- but nothing was even remotely good as
| the SageTV HD300's, even years later.
|
| Until I found the Nvidia Shield -- though it's more Google TV
| doing the real magic, I think. I still have the original 2015
| model in my living room, still working perfectly. My newer
| "media room" TV uses built-in Google TV stuff -- I originally
| intended to use the Shield but it requires upgrading my just-
| before-4K-came-out AVR to be able to do 4k, so this setup was
| simpler. I also have a cheap "Chromcast with Google TV" on an
| old smaller set in front of my treadmill.
|
| Over the past few years, I have all but stopped using Plex,
| though, as we went to pretty much 100% streaming services,
| but it is still running.
|
| It's really thanks to MythTV, though, that I started down
| this path 15+ years ago. I've never had a cable/satellite TV
| subscription in my name, ever. It's interesting now to look
| back, because all my media sources have entirely changed
| since I started. I do still have everything needed for OTA in
| a box somewhere, but I never hooked it up in this house --
| maybe it's time to give it a shot again.
| dang wrote:
| Looks like only one small past thread:
|
| _MythTV: An Open Source Digital Video Recorder_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29634491 - Dec 2021 (3
| comments)
| aidenn0 wrote:
| I loved MythTV, but I moved to a valley so I can't pull in any
| OTA broadcasts anymore :(
| ghaff wrote:
| I'm right at the base of a hill and I've never been able to get
| broadcast TV. A couple years back, I realized that I was
| watching cable TV less and less and the odd show/sports
| event/news broadcast just wasn't worth paying $1K/year any
| longer.
| fanatic2pope wrote:
| Love mythtv. I've been using it since about 2003 or so. It was
| definitely a janky experience in the beginning, but once I was
| able to ditch needing an IR blaster it became an absolute
| pleasure to setup and use.
| deelowe wrote:
| Oh man, I still have my hauppauge wintv card. Useless these days
| with analog broadcasts no longer being a thing.
| tyingq wrote:
| The Tablo devices are what I use now for those few things on
| broadcast TV I want to DVR. Fairly cheap, no recurring cost,
| and reliable. The UI is a little wonky, but you get used to it.
| And there's apps for things like FireTV, Roku, etc, so you
| don't have to physically wire it to one TV.
| mpnordland wrote:
| If you're curious about the version number, it was changed from
| 0.xx to xx.0 for release 29.
| https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#When_...
| harry8 wrote:
| Wanna do it with a retired pc? I recommend ps3 usb tv tuners. aka
| "Play TV" plentiful on second hand sights. Each has 2 tuners in
| it. Do you even need 2 of these devices to get 4? Ever had a 3rd
| thing to record or watch simultaneously? Might as well, they are
| very cheap.
|
| xbmc with the myth plugin on the frontend is great if you own the
| thing that drives your tv screen. If you use appletv it seems you
| don't own it and can't run xbmc or mythtv frontend on it. But you
| can pay apple a sub and then also pay again for anything you
| might want to watch out of their stunningly limited selection.
| That's always apple's solution: Pay apple more to get something
| that isn't what you wanted...
| waynesonfire wrote:
| the auto commercial skipping was the killer app feature of
| MythTV. Really enjoyed MythTV.
|
| Havn't looked at it; but, wish it would work with streaming
| services / on-demand.
| EricE wrote:
| Channels DVR works with quite a few streaming services (via TV
| Anywhere) and does commercial skip too. I use it with
| YouTube.TV as well as Philo. My parents also pick up OTA with
| an HD HomeRun on their channels DVR.
|
| The downside to Channels (and to be fair, exact same with
| MythTV) is the homebrew nature. I had to set up and maintain it
| for them. But if you have the means to run one and you like
| traditional cable channel content still, nothing beats
| Channels.
|
| They also have AppleTV and Firestick clients further sweetening
| the deal. It's $80 a year - but if you have dealt with Tivo or
| any of the other commercial products out there, that's not a
| lot - and it directly funds development. And development on
| Channels is very active, as is the dev participation in their
| forums (always a HUGE plus).
| cube00 wrote:
| Streaming services are never going to open themselves up for
| this.
| prmoustache wrote:
| I record streaming services with obs. I guess one could
| script something with some browser automation and ffmpeg.
| dsr_ wrote:
| MythTV stats from my house media server:
|
| Number of shows: 442
|
| Number of episodes: 25061
|
| First recording: Monday February 19th, 2007
|
| Last recording: Sunday February 5th, 2023
|
| Total Running Time: 15 years 11 months 16 days 5 hrs 30 mins
|
| Total Recorded: 2 years 1 month 13 days 18 mins
|
| Percent of time spent recording: 13%
|
| Specs: 2-core Intel CPU, 8GB RAM, 250 GB SATA SSD root, 6TB of
| mirrored storage, which is perpetually nearly full.
| allenbina wrote:
| I tried to get this to work multiple times around 2004. This
| might be where I first dove into linux. I gave up every time. I
| ended up using windows media center which worked flawlessly for
| years. I moved on to plex and a hdtvhomerun when they released it
| (it handles deleting old series, etc). About a year ago I
| realized I don't really watch live TV anymore and unplugged it.
| nerdix wrote:
| Similar for me but I never made a serious attempt at MythTV
| because I never had dedicated hardware in those days. So I
| ended up installing XP MCE on my main machine (you could
| minimize/exit Media Center and it was just plain Windows
| underneath).
|
| Used that for a while then went down the XBMC path (for
| windows..pre-Kodi for a while). Ended up with a Boxee Box
| (first real dedicated hardware). Then moved to Plex hosted on a
| Windows Home Server with various clients over the years (Sony
| NSZ-GS7 Google TV, OG Chromecast, Nexus Player, one of the
| older FireTVs, Chromecast Ultra).
|
| The Home Server died so I moved to UnRaid with containerized
| Plex. Had a HDHomeRun Prime integrated with Plex for a bit. But
| dropped cable in favor of streaming TV services. That's the
| closest I ever got to a MythTV setup.
| deepspace wrote:
| Same here. Tried multiple times, but it was just too rough.
|
| I ended up creating a barebones DVR from scratch in FreeBSD,
| which I was more familiar with than Linux. I kept adding
| incremental features over the next few years, until it was a
| very usable system, and exactly suitable for my needs.
|
| Then the internet became fast enough to stream and download
| content, and the old workhorse ended up in a closet somewhere.
| matthewmcg wrote:
| Similar for me, except I got it working after tens of hours
| invested. After wasting time with nonstandard hardware, I got a
| Hauppauge PVR series capture card with hardware MPEG2 encoding.
| That made all the difference.
|
| I was in college at the time and had free HBO on the dorm cable
| network, plus completely unfiltered 100mbps ethernet throughout
| the campus. It was fun to have a "DIY Tivo" server that could
| automatically remove commercials and make my library available
| to my suitemates.
| matthewmcg wrote:
| In case this resonates with anyone else's nostalgia, the
| highlight of my time with MythTV was setting up a system to
| automatically transcode episodes of selected shows to 320x250
| for my _iPod video_ which I could then sync and watch on a
| plane. Heady stuff for 2005-2006.
| ericflo wrote:
| I learned most of what I know about Linux trying over years to
| set up and maintain a MythBuntu box
| spear wrote:
| MythTV was the reason I bought and assembled my first x86 PC. I
| even bought a copy of Red Hat Linux 8 Personal (before Fedora) to
| run on it. That system became my main desktop PC and is still
| running more than 20 years later -- like a Ship of Theseus, with
| every hardware and software component upgraded multiple times.
| I'm not a progammer but I wanted to help fix bugs and add
| features, so it was also the reason I learned C++ and MySQL.
|
| I still use MythTV (with additional PCs as backends and
| frontends) to record Comcast digital cable with HDHomerun Cable
| Card tuners. It also serves my small library of music files and
| can play DVDs and BluRay discs. I've ripped 4k UHD BluRay discs
| using MakeMKV and MythTV can play the files but the colors are
| wrong since a lot of the plumbing needs HDR support.
| teel wrote:
| First I thought I had clicked something that showed really old
| postings. I had no idea MythTV would still be around. I never
| used MythTV though; I used Freevo in the 2000s. Worked quite well
| once I had it configured. Every once in a while I looked over the
| fence to see if the DVRs were greener on the other side, but
| never got around trying MythTV. I still have many shows and
| episodes I saved with Freevo, on old hard drives somewhere.
| johnklos wrote:
| Neat!
|
| It'd be nice if there were consumer-ready hardware for something
| like this. I know a few people with VCRs (yes, in 2023) that
| still record to tape from their digital receiver and play back
| over composite.
|
| I'm amazed that you can't just buy a device that acts like a VCR,
| with composite and line in and out, but records and plays back
| via digital files instead of tape.
|
| I want to try this, perhaps using an older Intel Mac mini, but
| I'm wondering how to "sell" it to someone who just wants a VCR.
| jaywalk wrote:
| The reason you can't just buy a "VCR-like" device is because
| everything is digital now, and it's much simpler/cheaper to
| capture and record the digital signal than do analog/digital
| conversion.
| ThinkingGuy wrote:
| It's not a fully Free (as in speech) Software solution, but
| Tivo does make a device that works with digital OTA broadcasts.
|
| https://www.tivo.com/products/edge-antenna
| rascul wrote:
| > I'm amazed that you can't just buy a device that acts like a
| VCR, with composite and line in and out, but records and plays
| back via digital files instead of tape.
|
| You can. They're called digital video recorders (DVR). I had
| one around 15 years ago (I don't remember brand or model). A
| quick search on Amazon had this one as the first result:
|
| https://www.amazon.com/ClonerAlliance-Recorder-Playback-Conv...
| johnklos wrote:
| Wow! Thank you :D I've been looking, but every time I've
| searched for anything like "DVR", I get boxes to record
| surveillance camera feeds.
|
| This is expensive, but may very well be worth the money.
| Thanks!
| rascul wrote:
| Yes, you have to dig through the DVR results. PVR (personal
| video recorder) might be a better search term, I didn't try
| it. I'm sure there's some that cost less, that was just the
| first one I found.
| bobleeswagger wrote:
| >I'm amazed that you can't just buy a device that acts like a
| VCR, with composite and line in and out, but records and plays
| back via digital files instead of tape.
|
| HDHomerun does this.
| EricE wrote:
| Tivo has a pure OTA model that is a reasonable deal. And their
| UI still beats the pants off of everyone else. Heck they
| finally embraced commercial skipping too.
|
| If you don't something cheaper/more DIY oriented I'm really
| happy with channels dvr. It interfaces with Youtube.TV and many
| others (anyone who partners with TV Anywhere) and can do Over
| the Air recording with HD Homerun. What I really like is it
| provides one unified, central location for the majority of the
| services I care about.
| VWWHFSfQ wrote:
| Wow MythTV! This is a blast from the past. I was using this back
| in ~2006 or so. It sorta worked haha.
| Prolixium wrote:
| It's ashame that MythWeb isn't under active development
| anymore[0]. The MythWeb change log in the 0.33 release doesn't
| have any commits newer than June 4, 2022.
|
| Maybe I'm weird but I use MythWeb exclusively even though I run
| MythTV on my office workstation. mythfrontend is nice but I find
| it easier (read: more window manager-friendly) to use mpv to play
| recordings.
|
| [0] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb
| toast0 wrote:
| There's now a built-in web frontend, which I guess let the
| sails out of mythweb. :/
|
| I've never been interested in scheduling through the frontend,
| I just use it to playback recordings with a remote control. I
| find it much easier to search and browse the guide through a
| web browser.
| daveevad wrote:
| Big fan of MythTV here and daily user forever now.
|
| Paired with an HDHomerun and Jellyfin, MythTV really gives one a
| pretty good poor man's Youtube TV with no recurring fees. One of
| mine runs in a virtual machine in the garage at my family's farm,
| with a custom script beaming me my childhood local news to enjoy
| over coffee in the morning.
| ed25519FUUU wrote:
| Childhood local news? Like news episodes from 20 years ago or
| the current stations you watched when you were young?
| daveevad wrote:
| The local stations I watched when I was a child. There are a
| handful of newscasters still around from when I last lived
| there 25 years ago. It's a pretty fun way of keeping a pulse
| of back home.
| anthk wrote:
| Damn, nostalgia. MythTV, DVR's, ahem, pirate keys for deco's...
| good times.
|
| Now I don't want a TV near me in kilometers.
| slindsey wrote:
| I used MythTV extensively in the late 2000s to capture over the
| air (OTA) tv. My kids were young and it was a terrific way to
| capture tv shows for them (and for me when doing 2AM feedings).
|
| It's ability to identify and skip commercials was awesome and I'm
| sure it's gotten better. The biggest issues I had were hardware
| related to the capture devices and getting remotes to work.
|
| Honestly, given the state of streaming (40 different services all
| carrying different content), it might be worth looking at again.
| bshep wrote:
| I had a similar experience!
|
| We had 3 TVs hooked up, each with its own instance and a
| central recording instance with 3 capture cards. It worked
| great, you could record or playback from any of the TVs.
|
| Main issue we had was getting the remotes to work correctly. I
| remember editing configs constantly to get correct behavior
| from the remotes.
| iwanttocomment wrote:
| I was a big MythTV fan in the aughts, and this was a blast from
| the past.
|
| These days I use an HDHomeRun Flex 4K. Four tuners, 4K ATSC
| support, clients for virtually all platforms (including Smart
| TVs) so you don't have to connect a proper "computer" to the TV
| or fumble with remotes, has cheap "bring your own storage"
| network DVR support, it's a real neat device for $200.
|
| It picks up _82_ OTA channels where I live. Just crazy how much
| content is on OTA TV these days.
| lizknope wrote:
| I just connected to the built in web server in my HD HomeRun
| and it shows 105 channels. I always see people complaining
| about having to pay for cable to watch sports when 90% of
| them are available for free over the air.
| nerdix wrote:
| Do you get ESPN OTA? Or your local sports regional network
| (likely owned by Bally Sports) OTA?
|
| Because that's usually what people really mean when they
| say that they need cable for sports. They want to watch
| some big game that ESPN paid big money for the broadcast
| rights like the college football national championship. Or
| they want to watch their local professional NBA or MLB team
| and the regional network paid big money for exclusive
| broadcast rights in the area so it's blacked out on League
| Pass (NBA) or MLB.tv
| lizknope wrote:
| I see people talking about NFL games on reddit
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl
|
| So many people complain about having to pay for cable. I
| watch all of my Sunday football for free OTA.
|
| ESPN of course has monday night football and Amazon now
| has Thursday and you are right that there are thousands
| of other sports events on pay channels. But I am
| surprised at how many people in the reddit game threads
| don't realize that you can watch CBS, NBC, and Fox over
| the air for free.
| evancox100 wrote:
| The NFL is the exception and has done a good job
| maintaining OTA availability of most of the games.
| JamesSwift wrote:
| One thing that you learn pretty quickly if you go deep on
| the cord-cutter route is that every single consumer
| situation is unique. The feasability/enjoyment of cord-
| cutting is going to _heavily_ depend on your _very
| specific_ viewing habits and physical setup (i.e. nearby
| towers and your line-of-sight to said towers... in addition
| to direction of towers if you need to combine multiple
| sources).
|
| Sports are actually one of the pros of cord-cutting in some
| scenarios, as you will generally get much higher quality
| streams OTA. But if there are black-out rules or you care
| about specific national/international teams then all of a
| sudden completely cut off. It all just depends on the
| specifics.
| toast0 wrote:
| That really depends on the sports and maybe the teams you
| want to watch. Looking at my TV schedule for the next two
| weeks or so, I get three NHL games OTA, none of which
| feature my local team (which is playing seven games in the
| same time frame). There's usually a lot of baseball and
| football, but whether you teams you want to follow is up
| for grabs.
|
| There's lots of channels, but nothing to watch :P with
| cable, there'd be a lot more channels, and still, nothing
| to watch :)
| TheRealDunkirk wrote:
| I used MythTV for several years, until Comcast went digital in my
| neck of the woods, and my tuner card was useless. What do people
| tune to content with now? Is it all IR control of a cable box?
| klinquist wrote:
| I still use a cablecard with Comcast (in an HDHomeRun Prime),
| currently using ChannelsDVR as my DVR.
| TheRealDunkirk wrote:
| Oh, wow. I never expected Comcast to actually support such an
| idea. Nice!
| simbas wrote:
| Good old OTA tv! ATSC
| m3galinux wrote:
| I've used MythTV since something like 2004. Still great to use
| for Digital OTA broadcasts (and free-to-air satellite / DVB if
| that's available in your area). Cable DRM has unfortunately made
| it much less useful for recording cable broadcasts, thanks to
| them being allowed to encrypt all QAM signals, and now aren't
| required to support/provide CableCards either:
| https://www.nexttv.com/news/charter-cuts-off-cablecard-suppo...
| vaporary wrote:
| That's interesting. I setup a new MythTV box two years ago on a
| Mac mini running Ubuntu, using a Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 capture
| device connected over USB. I've been able to record HD cable
| without dealing with any DRM by using the RCA jacks of my
| Comcast box, which has worked great.
| kris_wayton wrote:
| Sort of waiting for some new iteration of what "popcorn time"
| was. With all the fragmentation of content across different
| providers, and more aggressive actions on account sharing,
| crossing region restrictions, etc...it feels like average people
| are now starting to complain a lot.
|
| There is an opening for a very beginner friendly pirate platform
| to rise again. Not because nobody wants to pay exactly, but
| because doing it legally is complex now.
| jedberg wrote:
| https://movies123.video/
|
| Tons of ad spam, but seems to work eventually.
| bobleeswagger wrote:
| > Sort of waiting for some new iteration of what "popcorn time"
| was
|
| No. Popcorn time was a massive free rider/tragedy of the
| commons problem and a new version of it will continue to erode
| the good parts of piracy culture that exist.
|
| If you're too lazy to contribute effectively to these cultures,
| you should just keep paying for Netflix or IPTorrents.
| kris_wayton wrote:
| I wasn't trying to compare paid/free, just that there's a
| renewed opening for a beginner friendly pirate platform.
|
| Yes, popcorn time failed, but I was referencing the thing
| where it had once made inroads with non-technical people in
| some part because of the ease and not just the "Free" part.
| bobleeswagger wrote:
| You missed my point entirely. Popcorn time was net negative
| for piracy. It led to the current state of things IMO;
| Netflix, Hulu, etc. may have had fewer ads, more features,
| and lower prices if Popcorn time had not led to so many
| non-technical people having ease of access.
|
| Culture matters. Understand what maintains it. Protect it.
| kris_wayton wrote:
| Tends to happen when you call people lazy, etc. They miss
| your point.
| [deleted]
| hbcondo714 wrote:
| Popcorn Time Is Back:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972681
| jasondoty wrote:
| Private services like this exist. For $40 a year one lets me
| stream any show/movie on apps across all platforms including
| android tv. Seamless netflix-like sync across devices, family
| profiles, selectable video/audio quality up to 4k, etc
| niteshade wrote:
| Are they on the dark web? Perhaps I've just been (un)lucky,
| I've never seen any.
| jasondoty wrote:
| No, tor can't handle bandwidth of movie streaming.
| kris_wayton wrote:
| Feels like they are referencing something that includes the
| google-able tagline "lower price than the majority of file
| hosters while still offering"
| jasondoty wrote:
| I use this service as well for other things, but not what
| I was referring to, it barely fits the description.
| slfnflctd wrote:
| I'm fairly certain we're close to the point of a la carte
| streaming reaching parity with at least some major cable
| package offerings.
|
| This became more clear to me a couple weeks ago when my Boomer
| parents started exploring 'cutting the cord'. To get them
| access to everything they are now being offered by their cable
| company (including multiple on-demand streaming options) won't
| actually save them that much money and would introduce a
| nontrivial amount of hassle.
|
| They still may be doing it, but it's going to involve a lot of
| help from me. I almost would rather have just paid them the
| difference to not deal with it. I suppose teaching our elders
| the new ways has some value in itself... I just need to keep
| telling myself that...
| pessimizer wrote:
| Forget the pirate part, I wish there were just a very beginner
| friendly FOSS "smart" TV platform that seamlessly integrated
| antenna, cable, auxiliary inputs, and streaming services (DRMed
| or otherwise) with PVR functionality that could be thrown on a
| minimal system and bolted to the back of a monitor. Basically a
| MythTV or Kodi minus minus.
| intelVISA wrote:
| LibreELEC on a Pi/cheap SBC?
| podiki wrote:
| This takes me back! The first home server I ran had a TV capture
| card, ran Gentoo with MythTV, was hooked up to the living room
| TV, and was a pretty good source of entertainment for the
| gradstudent apartment I shared. Saving broadcasts, trimming out
| commercials, ... and of course fun with running a Linux server.
|
| Good to see the project still going 10-15 years after I first
| heard of it (though I haven't used it in a long time)!
| lp0_on_fire wrote:
| Same. I attribute a good portion of my linux knowledge today to
| setting up and running a MythTV machine. I ditched cable and
| moved to a place that has little OTA broadcasts so haven't run
| it in years but that box is still sitting in my basement.
| klinquist wrote:
| Check out channels dvr (getchannels.com/dvr) as a modern,
| actively developed DVR. I love it. I'm running Channels on an
| ESXi host and just use the AppleTV app as the interface.
| LouisvilleGeek wrote:
| Channels DVR is a fantastic piece of software that I have been
| running for a few years now. It's reliable and does not need
| much in terms of hosting hardware. Currently running it on a
| 2012 Mac Mini with USB attached SSD with an Apple TV as the
| client.
| nickcw wrote:
| I was always very impressed with MythTV. It was the first project
| that I saw that made really good use of versioning their mysql
| database with SQL queries to change the schema linked to the
| software version.
|
| I used it extensively. I obsessively recorded everything off over
| the air digital TV and wrote it to DVDs. I had a little script to
| look up ratings of movies in IMDB, apply weighting factors due to
| personal tastes and record all the ones which made the grade. I'd
| then edit the commercials out and burn to DVDs all losslessly.
|
| However, this all came to an end when my 2 year old son took the
| running hosepipe from the garden one summer, through the open
| patio doors into the house and proceeded to fill up the MythTV
| computer with water (along with the TV, VCR, DVD player and
| sofa!).
|
| I never quite had the heart to resurrect the system after that
| and it was an end to my MythTV obsession. It was fun while it
| lasted.
| scarby2 wrote:
| Does home insurance cover act of children while they are in
| they are in their probably possessed by demon stage?
| technothrasher wrote:
| By default, no. But if you've got an accidental damage clause
| in your policy, it would generally cover such losses.
| Although it would probably help to characterize it as an
| unfortunate accident caused by your little cherub rather than
| the spiteful act of your devil spawn.
| intelVISA wrote:
| Would guess that daemonic possession falls under force
| majeure.
| fullstop wrote:
| I love my children with all of my heart but they can be so
| destructive in learning through mistakes.
|
| Mine deleted my game save slots in Metroid Prime 2 when I was
| about 99% through. I didn't have the heart to start over, so it
| will remain forever unfinished.
|
| That doesn't even come close to watering the electronics,
| though, I can't even imagine the patience required in that
| situation.
| midasuni wrote:
| Back in 2096 I had myth running on a cube shaped PC by my TV.
| It had one fan, with a fancy pipe work to shift heat from the
| processor.
|
| I got an email while I was at work on a night shift with a cou
| temperature increase. Sshed in and could see the temperature
| rising and rising. 70, 80, 90, 100 (c)
|
| Then my ssh command died.
|
| Finished work at 10am and started the 90 minute drive home,
| wondering if there's be a home to sleep it. Fortunately on
| inspection it was the fan that failed. Everything had died,
| couldn't get it to boot, and so ended my mythtv adventure.
|
| It was great, had a little usb box which plugged into my sky
| box and send remote control command to switch sky chal lens. A
| hardware mpeg2 pci capture card to record, etc.
|
| But for me it was a product of its time. I haven't watched
| linear tv since 2016 except for a few special live programs.
|
| I thought it morphed into xbmc to be honest.
| fullstop wrote:
| You were living in the future, my friend.
| xp84 wrote:
| This is very relatable. I guess I should count myself lucky
| that my then-3yo "only" hurled a remote and smashed the TV in
| retaliation for TV time being over. And that I only buy the
| "cheap" $4-500 TVs instead of the high-end ones.
| olddustytrail wrote:
| "What on earth would make you do something like that?!!"
|
| "Poor genetic material?"
|
| ...
|
| "Bad guess."
|
| (Calvin and Hobbes)
| Eduard wrote:
| Oof. Good to know for any upcoming parenthood :). Though I
| guess any data loss was small considering you burned (water-
| resistant) DVDs?
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