What is MythBox?

MythBox is a MythTV frontend for XBMC.

Features:

• Watch recordings with commercial skipping
• Watch Live TV
• Create and update recording schedules
• View upcoming recordings
• Enhanced program guide
• TV show and movie metadata (fanart, episodes, etc) downloaded from tvdb, tvrage, tmdb, imdb, and google image search
• View tuner and job queue info
• Compatible with MythTV 0.23, 0.23.1 and 0.24 (Live TV broken on 0.24 due to XBMC)
• Add your own public Twitter feeds
• Move comm flagging jobs to the front of the queue
• Trigger user jobs, comm flagging, or transcoding for a recording

Requirements

All Platforms

• XBMC 10.10 (Dharma)

• A working MythTV 0.23 or 0.24 backend

  Linux

• 32-bit or 64-bit distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, OpenSuse, etc)

  Mac OSX

• Mac OSX 10.5 or newer - Intel only

  Windows

• Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7

  MythBox does not work on the XBox.

Installation

XBMC 10.10

  1. To install: System > Add-ons > Get Add-ons > XBMC.org Add-ons > Video Add-ons > MythBox

  2. To run: Videos > Video Add-ons > MythBox

  3. You'll be sent straight to the Settings screen (with an error message). 
     Fill in all the settings and click on the 'Test Settings' button until 
     you get a 'Settings OK' message.

  4. Exit the Settings screen & enjoy!

Keybindings/Remote Control

Context Keyboard MCE Remote Action

Global          \              N/A            Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode  

Navigation      Esc            -              Go back to the previous screen
                Backspace      Back/Previous  Go back to the previous screen 
                m              Win Button     Go back to the main menu
                Home           |<<            Go to the top of the list
                End            >>|            Go to the bottom of the list
                PgUp           Chan +         Page Up
                PgDown         Chan -         Page Down

Playing Video   x              Stop           Stop video
                Space          Pause          Pause video
                PrtScrn        Record         Take screenshot
                i              Info           Show program info                               
                o              Guide          Show audio/video/fps stats
                z              OK             Toggle zoom modes
                Tab            N/A            Toggle fullscreen/embedded player mode

Home Window     Context Menu   TV Guide Btn   Activate popup menu to delete
Coverflow                                     or re-record the selected
                                              recording

Recording       PgUp           Chan +         Goto previous recording
Details Window  PgDown         Chan -         Goto next recording

TV Guide        PgUp           Chan +         Scroll TV guide up one page
                PgDown         Chan -         Scroll TV guide down one page
                r              <<             Scroll TV guide left one page
                f              >>             Scroll TV guide right one page                                                    
                ?              |<<            Scroll TV guide back 1 day  
                ?              >>|            Scroll TV guide forward 1 day
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History
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MythBox was forked from xbmc-mythtv (http://xbmc-mythtv.sourceforge.net) 
and largely rewritten to bring MythTV protocol support up to date, 
add new features, and make MythTV a pleasure to use in XBMC.
Many thanks to all the developers whose time and effort went into the original 
xbmc-mythtv project!

Contact Info
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Email      : analogue@yahoo.com
Bugs       : Create a defect @ http://mythbox.googlecode.com
Suggestions: Create an enhancement request @ http://mythbox.googlecode.com
Discuss    : http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43115

Acknowledgements
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Thanks to Team XBMC for an awesome mediacenter!
Thanks to the MythTV devs!
Thanks to the folks at www.iconshock.com for the TV icon.