Mythbuntu is based on the ever-popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. MythBuntu makes it extremely easy to setup MythTV so that you can quickly begin recording your favorite shows.

Here are some key features of "MythBuntu":

· Basic ’live-tv’ functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
· Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
· Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
· Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
· Grabs program information using xmltv.
· Displays basic program information on channel change using a themeable semi-transparent on-screen display.
· Electronic Program Guide that lets you change channels and select programs to record.
· Scheduled recordings of TV programs, and playback and deletion of those programs, all through a themeable UI.
· A nice web interface to let you select programs to record remotely.
· Rip, categorize, play, and visualize MP3/Ogg/FLAC/CD Audio files. (FLAC, Vorbis, and MP3 encoding). Create complex playlists (and playlists containing playlists) through a simple UI.
· An emulator frontend. (MAME, NES, SNES, generic PC games)
· An image viewer/slideshow application.
· A weather module.
· A generic video player module, with automatic metadata lookups
· A DVD player / ripper module. Make perfect backups, or transcode down to smaller file sizes.
· An RSS news feed reader module.

MythTV is also well known for the selection of plugins that are available, as well as some themes.