Over the weekend, I set up my eee to operate as a second front-end for MythTV. This will allow me to watch TV in my bedroom on my eee, which is hooked up to a 19" display. The eee is a bit slow doing some things, frustratingly slow on occasion, but overall, it works fine. It's certainly usable.

I've had a MythTV setup for about a year and a half now. I originally installed MythTV on Ubuntu 6.10, and had a fair amount of difficulty getting it set up to work properly. I am happy to say that Ubuntu has improved, and more importantly, the Mythbuntu project has created some nice tools for integrating the two creating a nice Linux distribution.

Well. Not now, anyways.

I used to use the myth2ipod script to transcode video from my MythTV setup to a podcast. Over the weekend I upgraded to MythTV 0.21 (which allows me to do transcodes from the web), which ended up making me upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 mostly due to my own issues. I found that myth2ipod didn't work properly any more, partially because nuvexport apparently doesn't like my version of ffmpeg.