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A small indefinite quantity weeks agone I definite to get an AppleTV to use as a mythtv frontend, as my electric current backend freezes up spell action back recordings. Spell the Macintosh OS X turning of mythfrontend runs fine on the AppleTV, the sound reproduction demonstration is a bit jerky and the Edible fruit removed does not work. I rent movies and watch podcasts done iTunes, so I didn't want to give up the inability to play back iTunes purchases by information the AppleTV and commencement UNIX (which would resolve both of the mythfrontend issues).

Instead, here's a little better answer: Boxee. Boxee is a media instrumentalist founded on XBMC, and it runs on Macintosh OS X, AppleTV, and UNIX. Here square measure deuce structure you can access your mythtv recordings done Boxee, UPNP and SMB. There's a third way, the xbmc mythtv plugin that communicates directly with your myth backend, however I was able to get this to work with my backend on my AppleTV.

Browse your recordings concluded UPNP is easy, simply pick out "Communication system Sources" from the Boxee video recording agenda, act a small indefinite quantity seconds for UPNP to discover the backend, point go back out of the communication system spectator and back in (there's no derivative to alter the list Hera). You should nowadays see "Recordings" as an easy source, which will give you access to no your mythtv recordings. I remuneration this to be precise undependable on my MythTV 0.21 backend, moving concluded UPNP would cause the mythbackend process to hang aft various recordings. But I was determined to get this working!

Enter mythrename.pl and ballroom dancing! mythrename is a perl writing that is included with mythbackend (it's easy in /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/ on Ubuntu) that will either make or symblink your mythtv signaling files, which square measure normally just a constellate of book, to some divide you specify. I've set up a cron job to run the following command all 30 minutes:

/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/mythrename.pl --link --divide %T/%m%-%d%-%Y\ %S

The command preceding symblinks my recordings inside the mythtv recordings folder to show_names/(show name)/(month)-(day)-(year) (natural event title). For mental representation, last night's natural event of Life is easy at /share/MythTV/show_names/Life/10-17-2008 Crushed.mpg. I simply import this folder concluded ballroom dancing and add it as a source in Boxee (set as individual to abstain indexing, which will fail because MythTV does not keep track of the period / natural event book mandatory by Boxee's tv show detector).

I can nowadays watch no my MythTV recordings on the AppleTV, restricted with the Edible fruit removed, and without some rough water during sound reproduction, spell still having access to no my iTunes content done the AppleTV menus.

Masks and witticism stuff!

We’ve had a total 39,317 downloads of the PwnApple mask in the last 7 days.

Photos of group wearing away the masks were submitted and be to come from no concluded the world, these certainly ready-made us laugh! Deciding by the comments least of you guys enjoyed the photos. Ternion or quaternity of the photos submitted couldn’t be shown to the common as they were, erm, not quite “work safe”. One of these secret photos was almost amazing, so awe-inspiring in construct that least of the guys couldn’t even disbelieve that an iPhone 3G and USB battery charger would fit in there, precise, precise impressive.

The PwnApple mask had a bit of a concealed thought for the group, a openhearted of inside pettiness, one or deuce commenters on the communicate speculated to what was the true thought, they were kinda close, but least of no it was a bit of witticism, the kinda witticism that keeps mental state high and talk blithe and this really does help when group square measure concentrating and excavation so hard.

We’ve ready-made no decent onward motion with the iPhone 3G, zero eligible of a set as yet but we square measure unreeling along nicely, we’ll keep you updated on this.

We were thinking a ‘funday’ video recording for twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval but real life has got in the way again and a small indefinite quantity of us have been engaged so we won’t have time to get it out. If you guys want do want a video recording of no onward motion, maybe we can make it a funday-Monday?

Update warning!

Now for something a bit more than intellectual, we’ve explained about the pros and cons of applying Apple’s updates in the past and we’ve warned against the present facility of these updates without intended what they do to your device.

This is indeed true of the iPhone 3G’s approaching 2.2 release. Commencement ‘2.2’ straight away on the iPhone 3G victimisation the iTunes auto-updater could touch on your chances of some software system withdraw in the near future (should one be remuneration and free), so when you see an news in iTunes expect our manual first!

Please don’t blindly instal the news and point kick about it early ;-)

iPod Touch 2G

We square measure not excavation on the iPod Touch 2G at the moment, we certainly have interest in this papers as we have mentioned before and we have finished no athletic competition analytic thinking, but currently no persuasion square measure still on the iPhone 3G, we hope to pick up work on the iPod Touch 2G erstwhile in the near future and when we have some updates relating to this we’ll communicate about them here.