MythTV

Also known as .nuv, NUV

MythTV is a free and open-source digital video recorder and media center application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living room TV. It turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or a home theater PC. It can be considered a free and open-source alternative to TiVo or Windows Media Center. It runs on various operating systems, primarily Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

Key facts

Software.name: MythTV
Software.logo: MythTV logo.svg
Software.screenshot: MythTV-main menu.png
Software.caption: A screenshot of MythTV's main menu in the default theme, Terra
Software.developer: Isaac Richards
Software.latest release version: V36
Software.programming language: C, C++
Software.operating system: Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Windows (playback only)
Software.genre: Digital video recorder and media center application
Software.license: GNU GPL

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Official website

MythTV, Open Source DVR

MythTV is a Free Open Source digital video recorder project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

mythtv.org →

Link to the official site · 2,196 chars · not written by Vinony

Source code

github.com →

User and developer discussion Forums Mailing lists IRC Users: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/mythtv-users (Libera.Chat, mythtv-users) Developers: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/mythtv (Libera.Chat, mythtv) Contributions If you have patches for a new feature or a bug fix, please consider forking the project on and creating a pull request. Please note: If you create a pull request, please take care to follow the Pull Request checklist. We only support code that is from the canonical MythTV repository at For other forks of MythTV, please send bug reports to the owners of the fork where the code was committed. Open a new issue Create a pull request

Excerpt from the source-code README · 2,603 chars · not written by Vinony