LightMyth: MythTV, but lighter!
http://lightmyth.david-web.co.uk/
Version 0.5

By David Johnson (www.david-web.co.uk)

System Requirements
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* Python
* A fairly recent release of GStreamer with gst-plugins-ugly, the FFmpeg
  plugins and the Fluendo MPEG demuxers - older versions of GStreamer almost
  certainly won't work
* GTK and GStreamer Python libraries
* A MythTV backend locally or somewhere on your network - must be a version
  released on or after 13/04/2007 - you'll probably need an SVN version.

Features
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There are currently two seperate frontend applications which make up
LightMyth. The first is lightmyth-radio.py. As the name suggests, this
frontend supports audio-only playback of MythTV channels. It is naturally
intended for radio channels, but will actually give you audio-only playback
of TV channels too. This frontend is pretty stable.

There's also lightmyth-tv.py which is for playback of TV channels. It is
basically functional but has various issues related to playback - typically
you'll get video or audio, but not both. It is not stable and is likely to
leave MythTV hogging an input even after it's quit (or more likely, been
killed). You should be prepared to restart your MythTV backend if the
frontend crashes out.

Please be aware that this is a development release, intended for potential
developers and brave end users to test and report back on. There is very
little error checking in LightMyth at the moment, so if you enter the wrong
backend details or if there's some error when talking to the backend
LightMyth may well simply lock-up, crash out or exhibit some other
unexpected behaviour. You have been warned.

If you do get problems and want to debug, please run LightMyth with the
--debug command line option and observe the output. Bear in mind that making
LightMyth output debugging information is likely to trash the playback
quality, so don't run with this all the time.

Bugs, bugs, bugs
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If you wish to make any comments, suggestions or bug reports, please direct
them to dj@david-web.co.uk.