As I mentioned before, BeyondTV has a decent plug-in community. One of the best has to be AutoXvid. It’s a plug-in that will automatically scan and cut commercials from your recordings and then convert them to Xvid format. Or, only do one of those tasks. I only have it cut the ads. If I want [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks and BeyondTV is still running strong. I’ve added MediaPortal to the mix. Snapstream has their own media product called Beyond Media, but it’s old, buggy, and not being updated. MediaPortal is free and has tons of functionality. I use it mostly for Movies, Weather, Trailers, and Pictures, but it [...]

Screw MythTV. Screw Linux. Screw half-assed cobbled together software. This weekend I deleted MythTV, formatted the HD and installed Snapsteam’s Beyond TV. I don’t regret it a bit.
There are a lot of happy MythTV users, but I was never one of them. The days getting the system working turned into weeks. Even after the system [...]