[mythtv] Thanks

[Ben Bucksch]

Thanks, Isaac and all the others working on MythTV and making it such a 
great application for us all. Also to the coders of libavcodec, who made 
all this possible. It's one of othe most exciting applications for the 
computer I stumbled across recently. It's all that I wanted to have for 
a long time (TV/video digitally over the network), and much more (EPG, 
comfortable scheduled recordings, time-shifting incl. pause and rewind). 
It is absolutely great that this all works, it makes TV a wholly new, 
much better experience.

There is definitely still work to do. Adaption to Europe (channel number 
etc.), stability (it hangs and crashes too often), possibly easier setup 
and 1 or 2 features here and there, but without complicating it further. 
But it's impressive how professional it all is already, esp. the visual 
appearance ;-).

To do my part on the adaption to Europe, I wrote a converter of the 
German tvmovie XML data to XMLTV, including handling of umlauts (they 
were totally broken in the standard data source from xmltv-utils) and a 
lot of description for each program (there were almost nothing). I can 
only hope that the tvmovie data source stays online :-(. Source code and 
details for the converter will follow later.