[mythtv-users] Need "life without cable" clarification

[Alan Anderson]

We made that same decison to cut the cable tv cord.

Mythtv one backend two frontends.  Two HDHomeruns, with  Wineguard antenna in 
the attic.  RG6QS run down to a EDA-2802 Drop amp and 8 RG6QS runs to outlets.

MythTV .24 but my frontends are ION motherboards.  While the ION and 
Nvidia/hdpau is great for full screen HD playback.  It is not so good for full 
screen flash playback from Hulu.  So mythtv internet doesnt work (Low WAF 
rating) on my setup.  A frontend with enough CPU horse power for decent flash 
playback would be best on the front end.   So as a test go to Hulu with firefox 
on your frontend and see how it acts in full screen.   As far as I know you 
cant record anything from Hulu.



Roku for netflix and Huluplus (nonweb recordings)  and I added a playonTV 
server for hulu web playback   While playontv is a Windows app it alows full 
screen playback from hulu via the Roku playontv channel.  Would love to see a 
linux replacement for playontv.





On Friday, January 07, 2011 02:03:50 pm Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> Made a family decision to cancel cable... so I'm - for the first time in
> 20+ years - reentering the exciting world of OTA TV.  This means that my
> 5 tuners (two PVR-500s and a bttv) across three backends are about to
> become useless (I'm in California).
> 
> I've got a HDTV Wonder coming (and am investigating other OTA tuners),
> so I'll be able to play with recording ATSC signals and I've been
> looking at options of augmenting OTA with online video sources, like
> hulu, espn360, etc.
> 
> I read that MythTV (0.24 to be exact - I'm currently running 0.21)
> mentions being able to utilize online video sources. So here's what I
> need clarified.... am I understanding correctly that for online sources
> MythTV just becomes an RSS aggregator and opens a browser or the hulu
> desktop for viewing the online videos? Are there any options to have my
> MythTV backend download (like "record") online videos when they become
> available (if I "scheduled/subscribed" to the "show") for me to watch
> later using a frontend?
> 
> Thanks for bearing with me.
> Lonnie Borntreger
> 
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