[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article d028cr$ne6$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca ------ From gedetil@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.

********************************************************************** 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. **********************************************************************

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!