Roll up your sleeves and get ready to build your own HD-DVR with MythTV. Our experts not only guide you through building your own MythTV box, but let you in on all the little secrets, tricks and hacks that make it look and work the way you want it to. Coverage includes: Choosing the right hardware for the job - including HD capture cards; Working with 5.1 surround sound and optical audio outputs; Optimizing HDTV playback; Tweaks and hacks for various capture cards; Hacking MythTV themes; DirecTV and Dish Network hacks for MythTV; Using xine to add DVD menu support; Widescreen HDTV tweaks; Passing raw digital streams to an external decoder; Hacking the remote power button to reset MythTV's frontend; Exporting MythTV's .nuv recordings into other formats.
