According to Microsoft, US-based users of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate will soon be able to download a simple update that will enable them to “enjoy a range of television and video content on their PCs and TV sets [with a Media Center Extender of some sort] without a TV tuner in their PC.” The streaming content will all be ad-supported “by an advertising platform provided by YuMe,” which means that you’ll be getting it gratis.

I wish the devs would update MythIPTV so we could get something as seamless as this in MythTV.

Check out the project page for more information, links to source code & binaries as well as a video of MaemoMyth in action.

The author was quick to point out that he doesn’t use Wi-Fi to stream movies to his TV a la Apple TV, but rather uses the Wi-Fi to load the video onto the Dvico device. Personally I’ll stick to my $100 XBMC and wired Ethernet, but this is still a cool “just because I can” project.

Found at Engadget.

Part 1:
- Background:
- My current environment is this:

• MythTV .20 (no patches) installed on Fedora Core 4.
• 1 WinTV Go tuner card (analog NTSC bttv software encoding)
• 1 WinPVR 150 tuner card (analog NTSC ivtv hardware encoding - mpeg2)
• 1 Air2PC tuner card (digital ATSC ?? maybe QAM updatable) - not setup
• ATI Radeon 9200 w/ S-video out
• 160 GB HD w/ Fedora Core 4 on it. Using LVM for the entire drive.

- So I started on this little adventure switching from Fedora Core 4 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) for a few reasons:
- I’ve never liked Red Hat’s package management system
- I wanted to use Ubuntu originally when I first setup MythTV, but there was very poor support for MythTV on Ubuntu back in 2005.
- In my opinion, apt-get on debian based systems is far more stable and usable than yum on Fedora. I’ve ran into several problems with yum, and very few issues while using apt-get on Ubuntu.
- They dropped support for the yum repositories for Fedora Core 4. Yeah, I understand that they can’t maintain it forever, but upgrading to Fedora Core 6 from 4 is just as scary if not moreso than switching to Ubuntu. So I might as well just go with what I wanted in the first place.

My adventure begins after the break….

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