Top 15 MythTV Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. With its plugin architecture, MythTV can be transformed into a home media center suite, capable of managing your personal photo, video, and music collections, as well as keep you up to date with the weather, a ZoneMinder home security system, and much, much more.

Features:
* Watch and record analog and/or digital TV, including HDTV.
* Pause, skip, and rewind live TV shows.
* Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping, with manual correction via an intuitive cutlist editor.
* Intelligently schedules recordings to avoid conflicts.
* Parental controls to keep your kids out of the good shows.
* Watch and archive DVDs.
* Listen to your digital music collection.
* Schedule and administer many functions remotely via a web browser.
* Flexible client/server architecture allows multiple frontend client machines to access content served by one or more backend servers (although the most common installation consists of a single computer running both the client and server together).
* Many more...
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1. me-tv

me-tv Me TV is a user-friendly desktop application for watching digital television services that use the DVB standard.......

2. Zapping

Zapping Zapping is a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.With Zapping and a TV card you can watch TV, take screenshots, and record video and audio. Zapping has a deinterlacer and a Teletext viewer built in and supports Closed Caption and Teletext subtitles. Got......

3. ARGUS TV

ARGUS TV Control Your TVRecord and Watch TV with Your PCRecord your most-loved TV programs with the push of a button.Never miss your favorite show again!......

4. Cyberlink PowerCinema

Cyberlink PowerCinema CyberLink PowerCinema digital home entertainment software is an all-in-one digital media center, delivering a complete entertainment solution for the digital home via your PC. Watch and record digital HDTV and listen to radio on your PC with PowerCinema’s bundled TV-tuner card. PowerCinema 6 allows you to enjoy music, videos, photos,......

5. Pouchin TV Mod

Pouchin TV Mod Pouchin TV Mod allows you to watch and record DVB-T TV (TNT). It is small and lightweight and has an interface similar to DScaler5 and K!TV.It also supports HDTV and EAC3 sound.......

6. OpenELEC

OpenELEC Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center. OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot as fast as possible and the install......

7. MediaPortal

MediaPortal MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way. All in the comfort of your living room, on your big screen LCD or Plasma TV......

8. Freevo

Freevo Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to......

9. Kastor! TV

Kastor! TV K!TV is the best way to watch Tv on your computer. Download, install and watch your favorite TV shows! K!TV is free and is fully functional! It is based on free technologies to bring you a high quality software. No ad, no spyware, just K!TV.You just need to have Tv......

10. VidOn Server

VidOn Server Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.......

11. nextPVR

nextPVR NextPVR is a free Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and Media Centre application for Microsoft Windows. At its heart lies the Electronic Programme Guide from where you can watch (and pause) live TV and schedule your favourite shows for later viewing.Relax with a DVD or play back your music, videos and......

12. Windows Media Center

Windows Media Center Windows Media Center (WMC) turns your computer into a home entertainment hub, compiling media from your computer and the internet (plugins required) into one interface. You can even use WMC to record TV (TV tuner required). Unleash the full power of WMC by connecting your computer to a HDTV and......

13. Movies Online

Movies Online Movies Online is a service that allows to watch movies and Tv series online for free and without registration. The site has more than 60,000 films in database.......

14. VidMasta

VidMasta Search for, read about, preview, watch, and download any movie and television titles that are being shared online.......

15. Documentary Vine

Documentary Vine Documentary Vine is a fast growing curated collection of free to watch documentary films for entertainment and education, with over 40 categories and multiple means of discovery. Updated daily with fresh new content daily.......