A Media Centre allows you to hold all of your digital media like a giant jukebox, all accessable via your remote control.

MythTV is probably the best Media Centre available at the moment for Digital TV. I have had it in production for several years now and have used it every day. Many thanks to Issac Richards the maintainer and all the active developers.

If you are new to Linux or openSUSE PLEASE see the quick start guide first, you will find the MythTV bit a lot easier afterwards.

• Integrated DVB Scanner and Channel Tuner application
  
• Integrated weekly Programme Guide updated from the broadcast stream
  
• Programme recording straight from the programme guide
  
• Multiple Tuner card support for Satellite and Terrestrial
  
• Integrated Photo, Music and Video library
  
• Integrated DVD and CD rip and transcode
  
• Archive shows to DVD with full menu support
  
• Advanced recording and scheduling capability
  
• Multiple frontends and backends to deliver media to any part of the house
  
• Web access to schedule recordings while you are away from home
  

To install MythTV on openSUSE  start with the "MythTV Dependancies" tab

MythTV on the Plasma with 5.1 speaker system

MythTV video format
It is worth noting that MythTV uses its own video format for recording TV Broadcast streams. It makes use of a special version of NuppelVideo. DVB broadcast is transmitted in a format known as "ts". MythTV will, by default, convert this to "ps" format for recording as this has slightly better compression. Since MythTV 0.18 you can now record directly in "ts" format which provides better feature support for things such as subtitles.