Ryan Homan

With all of my searching for new info about MythTV, I came across a large list of plugins now available. If your running version .20 then all of these should work. First off are the main ones that are official plugins for MythTV that I recommend using to get the most from your system pending you meet all the hardware requirements.

• MythDVD - allows you to use your frontend as a DVD player and ripper
• MythGallery - provides support for an image gallery that can be displayed as a slideshow
• MythMusic - allows you to play your collection of musicin formats such as mp3, ogg, or even wma
• MythWeb -this provides a web interface to use your mythtv system with almost all features as long as you are running apache
• MythVideo - this plugins is used to interface with video not recorded by MythTV (divx movies, home videos, etc.)
• MythWeather - provides an up-to-date weather report whenever you need it for your location
• MythArchive - now included with version 0.20

Other official plugins that are commonly used, but I have yet to get much use from are listed below:

• MythNews - provides access to RSS feeds
• MythPhone - uses the mythtv interface to allow placing and receiving of phone calls with VOIP (Asterisk is a common implementation)
• MythBrowser -allows you to surf webpages from the mythtv interface
• MythControls - allows you to change your keybindings without having to exit mythtv
• MythFlix - provides an interface to you Netflix account
• MythGame - allows you to play rom based games with a built in emulator

There are also several unofficial plugins that I want to try when I get a chance. Some of them have great potential.

• TVWish - my favorite unofficial plugin - allows for you to have a text list of show titles and when the script is ran regularly, it will automatically schedule the shows when it gets the info from the listing site.
• MythMail - its a pop3 client to access mail
• MythRecipe - allows you to browse an internet db of recipes while playing your favorite mp3 in the background
• MythFM -allows you to listen to FM radio from the MythMusic interface with the radio receiver on your tuner card
• MythStream - provides streaming of audio and video to the fronend from websites and more
• MythCalendar - need I say more?
• MythTiVo - GUI for playing recorded shows from a networked TiVo (no updates for a while on this project though)

Well thats about all. That should keep you busy updating your MythTV box with all these plugins for a while. Be sure to comment about them if you’d like. If you would like more info on any of these plugins, visit ExtremeTech’s article on them.

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