MythTV Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to MythTV for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Plex, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MythTV and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to MythTV are Emby, LibreELEC, TV-Browser and Tvheadend.

MythTV alternatives are mainly Media Centers but may also be Media Players or Media Servers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of MythTV.

MythTV

Free • Open Source
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MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL....

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Plex
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Freemium • Proprietary
Media Center
Media Server
Media Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Chrome OS
Android Tablet
Windows Phone
iPad
Apple TV
Daydream
Kindle Fire
Android TV
Kodi
Roku
91 Plex alternatives
Plex is a one-stop destination to stream movies, TV shows, sports & music. Check good movies to watch on Plex and stream all your personal media libraries on every device.
- - Plex is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to MythTV.
- - Plex is the most popular free alternative to MythTV.
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Plex Features
1. Works OfflinePlex can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
2. Kids ModePlex allows you to create and manage your kids' profiles in order to protect them.
Media Streaming
Play local content
Local Storage
Media Transcoding
Remote Media Access
Automatic Library Search
Support for subtitles
Support for DLNA
Media sharing
Automatic subtitles download
Comments about Plex as a Alternative to MythTV
Most users think Plex is a great MythTV alternative.
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Plex needs additional software to convert iptv to dvr format, it also has a limit to the amount of channels you can load, has no channel grouping and displays thumbnails for ALL channels, in you have XXX channels people are gonna see
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Emby
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Freemium • Proprietary
Media Center
Media Server
Media Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
BSD
Windows Phone
iPad
Self-Hosted
Apple TV
Kindle Fire
Cloudron
Playstation
Xbox
45 Emby alternatives
Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface. Emby prides itself on delivering a fast, intuitive, media rich experience for the whole family.
- - Emby is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MythTV.
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Emby Features
1. Chromecast SupportCast your content to a Chromecast connected device with Emby.
2. Ad-freeEmby doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Kids ModeEmby allows you to create and manage your kids' profiles in order to protect them.
Media Streaming
Browser Gallery
Private gallery
Optimized for Mobile
Local server
Remote Media Access
Media Transcoding
Asset Pipeline
Remote playback
LibreELEC
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Free • Open Source
Media Server
Audio Player
Media Player
Linux
10 LibreELEC alternatives
LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware. We are an evolution of the popular OpenELEC project. LibreELEC software will be familiar to OpenELEC users.
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LibreELEC Features
1. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in LibreELEC without registration.
2. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsLibreELEC can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Customizable
TV-Browser
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
18 TV-Browser alternatives
TV-Browser gets the daily TV program from the internet and shows it clearly aranged - like a printed TV guide. An internet connection is only necessary during the data update. It provides more than 500 channels (from Germany, USA, GB, Scandinavia & more), is platform...
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TV-Browser Features
1. PortableTV-Browser can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Channels
Tvheadend
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Free • Open Source
IPTV App
Linux
Self-Hosted
7 Tvheadend alternatives
Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.
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Tvheadend Features
Backend
DVR
XBian
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Linux
HummingBoard
Raspberry Pi
6 XBian alternatives
XBian is a small, fast and lightweight media centre distribution for the Raspberry Pi, CuBox-i, Hummingboard and many more devices to come. It is based on a minimal Debian and therefore offers much of the same freedom as Debian offers.
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XBian Features
Live updating
Freevo
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Mac
Windows
Linux
18 Freevo alternatives
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.
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Freevo Features
DVR
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last stable version, 1.9.2 Beta, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Molotov.tv
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Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Apple TV
Fire TV
Chromecast
9 Molotov.tv alternatives
Molotov is an app to watch TV on phone, Windows, MacOS and iphone/ipad.
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Molotov.tv Features
1. Kids ModeMolotov.tv allows you to create and manage your kids' profiles in order to protect them.
2. Watch Live TVWith Molotov.tv, you can watch live television on your devices.
TV Streaming
Enna
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Audio Player
Linux
29 Enna alternatives
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
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Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, v0.4.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Zapping
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Free • Open Source
IPTV App
Linux
BSD
18 Zapping alternatives
Zapping is a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
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Zapping Features
TV Streaming
TV Tuner
Discontinued
No more updates since 2013
Kroozbox
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Free • Proprietary
Media Center
Windows
Linux
15 Kroozbox alternatives
Kroozbox is a database to HTML gateway written in Java that can run under Windows or Linux.
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SageTV
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
14 SageTV alternatives
SageTV is a PVR (personal video recorder) application for your PC.
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SageTV Features
DVR
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