been a while since I praised mythtv
It’s been a while since I’ve praised MythTV. I’d just like everyone to know how much I love it!
Last night I was watching (yet another) Law & Order with Jodi, in “time-stretch” mode (adjusting the playback speed to 1.1x - 1.2x normal speed, but keeping audio at the same pitch), and we were able to get through two episodes (skipping right throught the commercials, and pausing/re-winding to go to the kitchen) in, well, ummm, 1.2 times faster than we normally do!
We have about 10 or so movies saved up that we want to watch, all kinds of Independent Film Channel stuff, The Office episodes, and tons of other junk (all 50+ Law & Orders per day). It really makes TV actually enjoyable — TV on my time. I could imagine myself actually watching a Reality-show now, with the ability to time-stretch to 1.3, or even more, and fast-forwarding, commercial-skipping and long-dramatic-drawn-out-dialog skipping….
And did I mention that the Mac OS X binary for version 0.17 is simply brilliant? I simply downloaded a “MythTV” frontend binary for Mac, and double-clicked on it. Boom, another client in the kitchen on Jodi’s Powerbook. I knew I ran Cat-5 (Cat-6 actually) to the kitchen for a good reason.
However, this scares me.
