Here is another great reason to own a MythTV PVR; you can turn it into a Slingbox so you can stream your TV over the internet to any other internet enabled video player such as a laptop, PC, or PMP.By installing MythStreamTV, a module for the MythWeb interface to MythTV, you will have an extra option in your MythWeb homepage. From that page you can then go on to select what you want to watch.
Unlike the Slingbox, MythStreamTV won't automatically decide what bitrate to use so you will have to set this manually and experiment a little bit. Also the user interface is pretty basic but as a handy free feature I wouldn't be too bothered about that.
1. I am a MythTV user and really like it. However, there are all sorts of problems between MythStreamTV and MythTV, especially MythTV .20 (the current version). It's probably possible to use them together, but I haven't figured out how - and I'm by no means alone.
Posted at 5:27PM on Dec 3rd 2006 by Geoff Fox