Mediacube

Introduction

Mediacube is a project that aims to create a full featured Linux based PVR. PVR stands for Personal Video Recorder which allows you to record and pause live television. The software should also let you record any program at any time, either scheduled or directly, and also provide a number of other features. Apart from the mediacube software and some extra packages, specialized hardware is also utilized.

So far these following features have been implemented:

movie stream/file playback, such as Divx, MPEG etc
audio stream/file playback. Any artist, album or custom playlist can be played
shows slideshows of digital pictures
retrieves TV listings, shows current programs and favourites
shows the local weather (so far only Åbo, Finland)

Sooner or later these will go in too, in one form or another:

record a program from any channel and at any time, possibly remote scheduling using SMS or similar
pause a program
some simple games

Hardware

The hardware used for Mediacube is a little bit special, as it should fulfill these following criterias:

silent
small
TV-tuner card
TV-output
IrMan receiver

Extra software

Some extra software is needed by Mediacube in order to run. You will need:

MPlayer
VCR

Download

For now, please look at the SourceForge project page and use CVS. Packages will possibly follow later.

Screenshots and pics

Of course there is some eye candy to be looked at.