2. Agenda
:00 – Introduction
:05 – The scenario
:10 – A Mythical Solution
:15 – Getting started
:20 – Demonstration
:30 – Q&A

3. Introduction
John Jennings
Lecturer in TI/LIT
Email: jjennings@tippinst; john.jennings@lit.ie
Twitter: @seoinin
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/seoinin
Skype: seoinin

4. Glossary
Digital Media Music
Podcasts
Digital Video
Motion Video
Digital Images
Pictures
Animations
Graphics
Screencasts
Digital Audio

5. Glossary 2
Sources of Digital Captured from Analog
TV source
Media
Recorded Audio
Streamed Scanned Images
Youtube, Vimeo, Qik
PVR – Personal Video
Broadcast Recorder
DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C
Offline
DVR – Digital Video
Recorder
Torrent, FTP, HTTP, CD
/DVD

6. Some Scenarios
So you want to manage and display digital media in
your classroom?
Play educational videos to your students
Play a topical news story to your class that is recorded from a
live TV broadcast
You want to use screencasts to illustrate the use of computer
applications in your class
You wish to manage and display school photos within the
school network
You wish to manage and play your own podcasts within the
school network

7. A Mythical Solution
MythTV is a Free Open
Source software digital
video recorder (DVR)
project distributed under
the terms of the GNU GPL.
MythTV project was
started in April 2002 by
Isaac Richards and the
latest version 0.24 was
released in Nov. 2010

8. What is MythTV?
MythTV is a collection of software that provides
digital video recording functionality e.g. PVR/DVR or
simply a computerised VCR.
Basic PVR functions are recording and playing back
scheduled programs and allowing you to schedule
recordings automatically in advance.
MythTV has a plugin system that permits it to be
extended by other programmers. Plugins currently
exist for playing external video, viewing
photos, listening to music files and much more!

9. MythTV Architecture
Video Source
Frontend
connected to
projector
Backend
Frontends in
each School
classroom Networ
k

10. Getting started
Shopping List:
A Computer
A Blank CD
A network connection
Optional:
DVB-C/T/S and/or Analog TV tuner/capture card(s)
TV Source e.g. Sky, Freesat, Cable, DVB-T aerial

11. Detailed Specification
Backend
Relatively high spec. is preferred but not essential. e,g, dual/quad
core, 1-2TB HDD, 2GB RAM, fast network card, tuner card(s),
Linux Operating system (Mythbuntu, MythDora)
Frontend
Any PC in the school, e.g. teacher’s PC, An old Xbox even works!
Linux, Mac OSX preferred
Network
Wireless, wired (preferred)

12. Setup
Install Mythbuntu on backend
Download iso image, and burn to blank CD
Install Backend
Configure
Install MythFrontend
Linux OS is optimal
Mac OSX is well supported
Windows comes in a close second

13. Demonstration

14. And there is More…
MythTV's add-on modules (plugins) include:
MythVideo plays various video file formats
MythMusic a music player, jukebox, collection
manager, and CD ripper
MythGallery online photo gallery manager
MythNews RSS feed news reader
MythWeather fetches weather forecasts - including
weather radar - from the Internet

15. And there is even More…
MythBrowser small web browser
MythGame frontend for game console emulators
MythWeb controls MythTV from a remote web browser
MythArchive DVD burner
MythNetvision streaming video player intended primarily
for Flash-websites like YouTube
MythZoneMinder frontend interface for a ZoneMinder
system
UPnP AV MediaServer v1.0 compliant server: share media
files with UPnP-clients

16. Legal Considerations
Educational establishments (Exemptions).
Literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works can be copied for the purposes of
instruction and of preparation for instruction provided:
the copying is done by or on behalf of the person giving the instruction
the copying is not by means of a reprographic process
the copy is accompanied by sufficient acknowledgement.
A copy of a recording, literary, dramatic work etc can be made for the purposes
of setting or answering the questions in an examination.
A copy can also be done for the purposes of an examination by way of
communicating the questions to the exam candidates.
A copy of a recording can be played in an educational institution before an
audience limited to teachers and pupils of that educational establishment or
other persons directly connected with the activities of the establishment.
The playing or showing of the recording can be made by a teacher or pupil in
the course of the activities of the establishment concerned, or by any person
for the purposes of instruction.
A parent or guardian of a pupil in the educational establishment is not a person
directly connected with the activities of the educational institution.
Recording by educational establishments of broadcasts and television
programmes are not permitted where there is a licensing scheme and the
person making the copy knew or ought to have known of its existence

17. Q&A

18. Links
Mythtv:
Main site : http://www.mythtv.org
OSX Ports: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_OS_X#Pre-built_Downloads
Windows port: http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/index.php?page=download
Discusion Forum: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
Alternatives:
Xbox Media Centre : http://xbmc.org/
Windows Media Center (WMC): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-media-center/
Freevo: ttp://freevo.sourceforge.net/
Copyright Act, 1963 Ireland
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1963/en/act/pub/0010/index.html