With more and more people assembling MythTV boxes as alternatives to Windows Media Center or going out and buying a TiVO, for this introductory article we will share some recommendations of hardware we had used on a recent MythTV build along with other information to consider

Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we're going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center).

MythTV 0.22 Release Candidate 1 is released. MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It also includes media center capabilities.

MythTV now has a new competitor and that is Boxee. Boxee is a "social media center" that is based upon the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) with versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.

Last November we had looked at Mythbuntu 7.10 and found it to be an excellent MythTV distribution. With its LiveCD MythTV front-end capabilities and intuitive Mythbuntu Control Center, this distribution is far more than just a re-branded edition of Ubuntu with a couple MythTV packages.

Every major operating system has more than one media center solution for users who can't spend a day without watching a movie or listening to music. In Linux we're all familiar with MythTV and Freevo, two media center applications that are so appreciated they even have got their own distributions. Freevo is highly configurable, and Freevo 2 SNV builds look promising.

A 20-page downloadable whitepaper compares 10 free media center applications, including Boxee, Elisa, Entertainer, Freevo, MediaPortal, My Media System, MythTV, Neuros OSD, Plex, and XBMC.

This show is about MythTV. MythTV is an open-source PVR that allows you to record tv programs (and filter out all the commercials) as well as manage all your media: your photos, music, and dvd collection. We will explore all of these features and more throughout this podcast. Please join us as explore this wonderful application.

The MythTV developers have announced the first release candidate for version 0.23 of their open source Linux media centre. New features include a new event system, a new theme and an official Internet Video plug-in