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------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
MythTV
Shawn Wallbridge will be presenting on MythTV. MythTV turns your PC running
Linux into a personal video recorder, like a Tivo, with some neat features.
* Basic 'live-TV' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
* Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
* Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and
multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent
to the user.
* Compresses video in software using rtjpeg (from Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4
(from libavcodec). Full support for Hardware MPEG-2 encoder cards
(Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350). Preliminary support for DVB cards and the
new pcHDTV tuner card.
* Support for the (very nice looking) hardware MPEG-2 decoder and TV out
present on the Hauppauge PVR-350.
* Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping.
* Grabs program information using xmltv.
* A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
Shawn will show how to get it all set up with the least amount of effort
using KnoppMyth, a Knoppix based MythTV installer.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
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Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave.
(between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
(in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15
PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or
you may not get in.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot
across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is
also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening.
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For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce"
and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you
to subscribe now:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/
The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such
as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG
members.
The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics
discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other
topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective,
we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay
involved!
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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