[mythtv-users] Advice please: school mythtv project

[Johnny Walker]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My first thoughts are on legality. Then again IAAL. In NZ law, which
>>>>> may be different in Oz, it is only legal for A to time-shift for "A's
>>>>> personal use or the personal use of a member of the household in which
>>>>> A lives or both"
>>>>
>>
>>>
>>> See http://www.screenrights.org/copyright/australia/educational-institutions/schools.php
>>>
>> I perhaps should provide a little more info so that people do not need
>> to go and read the document. In my case, the school is a catholic
>> school in WA and this screenrights license is in place through the WA
>> catholic education office allowing the recording, storing and
>> rebroadcasting within the school of all OTA TV and radio broadcasts.
>> All government schools in Australia are also covered under this
>> license. I can't comment on other areas but for my purposes, this is
>> all legal.
>
> good news. I suppose we should deal with your technical questions now...
>
> none of which I have any real knowledge of I'm sorry, I hope others can help.
>
> One thing though, IM experience teachers are not particularly non
> techno. They will require a bit of training, and possibly a manual,
> otherwise you'll be getting calls at all hours...

Ah this I can speak to: enlist the student aides from the Science,
Computer Science or Media Dept. Training 1 or 2 of them might be very
helpful even if only for 'remote hands.'

You might consider donating them a backend machine that can also run
MythFrontend and then use MythArchive to export their recordings so
they can use any dvd player to watch them.

This would mean you didn't have to support anything but a standard installation.