<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 24/10/2009, at 3:16 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<br><br>Just was wondering a couple of things.<br><br>Is Mythtv suitable for commercial use (ie sold as part of a media <br>centre) or are there copyright or other legal infringements?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes as long as you take all of the appropriate steps, some of which have already been covered here.</div><div><br></div><div>For any proprietary codecs such as MPEG4/MPEG2/H.264 you can license them. Interestingly the MP3 patents mostly don't apply here in NZ.</div><div><br></div><div>As has been mentioned there are issues around format shifting of non-audio formats which is where you will be taking a risk if you leave transcoding features enabled.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the rest comes down to GPL compliance. With myPVR we made sure we contributed back upstream and also made source available to our customers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Has anyone been able to use the UPNP backend in Myth? It shows up on my <br>Windows machine but I can't play anything back using WMP it just locks <br>up. Also I seem to get several entries showing up for the same <br>recording. Myth doesn't make use of UPNP does it? Just wondering <br>because when you haven't set up the backend connection correctly you get <br>the error message that no UPNP backends were found.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Is this with MythTV 0.21 or 0.22. A lot of the UPNP/DLNA support can vary dramatically from client to client in my experience.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></span>
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