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Revision as of 17:34, 27 March 2010

These are an overview of the changes in the 0.23 release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, have been backported to the 0.22-fixes release.



 
Major changes

  • New event system [23012]
  • Rewritten and greatly expanded python bindings [23416]
  • Addition of MythNetvision Plugin [23123]
  • New audio with surround sound upmixer
  • Addition of Arclight Theme [23275]
  • 15% faster software H.264 decoder [23525]



 

MythTV

New Features

  • Rewritten and greatly expanded python bindings [23416]
  • Addition of Arclight Theme [23275]
  • New event system [23012]
  • Rewritten audio (simplified configuration, multi-channels upmixing, automatic resampling).
  • Addition of MythNetvision Plugin [23123]


EIT

Firewire

  • Add support for QIP-6200 and DCX-3432 [23647]
  • Add SA8300HD model id to firewire stb list [22045]
  • Add QIP6200 model id to firewire stb list [22048]

UPNP

Setup

  • Simplified audio setup (digital audio users will need to edit their settings, typically if using surround setup, change Stereo to 5.1)
  • Channel Scanner - Analog channel scanning fixed [23657]

Audio

  • Multi-channels upmixer (similar in quality to DTS-Neo)
  • Automatic high-quality bitrate resampling to play any content on any hardware (using SRC library)
  • Fix digital passthrough for windows and add support for rate support detection [22826]

Video Playback

  • FFmpeg sync to revision 21657 [23525]
  • Add AVChapter support (works with Matroska and OGG chapters)
  • ITU BT709 colorspace (HD-TV) support and studio levels (RGB 16-235) (with VDPAU only) [22431]
  • Fix .srt suntitle playback in the Internal Player [22025]
  • Allow multiple dots in external subtitle filenames [22800]
  • Prevent repeated enabling/disabling of deinterlacing for streams with mixed flags [22121]
  • VDPAU video buffering improvements [22132]
  • Speed up recording playback startup by loading the osd menu more quickly [22784]
  • Removes PVR-350 output support [22845]

OSD

Windows Port

Theme Development

  • Replace instances of Bitstream fonts in default themes with DejaVu? fonts. [21964]
  • Add a new startdatetime string to the program info map. [22005]
  • Expand MythUI font parsing with decoration, weight, and stretch values. [22022]
  • Change the base definition of the progress bar to allow it to be resized. [22030]
  • Add the missing flag states (sound, audio, subtitles etc) to PlaybackBox. [22087]
  • Make the description field used in the menus translatable [22116]
  • Add "wordspacing" and "letterspacing" font properties in MythUI [22133]
  • Support specifying font size in pixels [22134]


Themes

  • Fix the Metallurgy 'programguide-video' window definition. [22773]
  • Theme the program details screen in Metallurgy [22781]

Translations

  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation of Mythfrontend. [21979]
  • Polish MythNews translation. [21980]
  • Dutch translation of MythVideo, Frontend [21981] [21982]
  • English (UK) translation [21996]
  • German translation [22055]

MythUI

  • Automatic font loading for theme-provided fonts, so system installation is no longer required [23594]
  • Support paging by multiples of the step value in MythUISpinBox [22092]
  • Allow right mouse clicks to close menus [22818]

Misc

  • Fix the NetworkControl's "key" command for non-alphanumeric printable keystrokes [22115]
  • Removes Xbox blinkenlights support [22786]
  • Removes DBox2 support [22790]
  • Fix incorrect status being displayed in the mythfrontend status box for a tuner that has an error [22860]

Network Control

  • Fix playback of filenames with spaces in 'play file' command. [23376]

mythbackend

  • Addition of a new event system to allow external system calls to be triggered on any listening system. [23012]

Mac OS X

Plugins

MythArchive

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythFlix

  • MythFlix was dropped from MythTV after the 0.22 release [22841]

MythGallery

  • Fix the image import feature. [21951]

MythGame

  • Migrate to QT4 [23115]
  • MythUI fixes for MythGame?, everything but for the tree should be optional. [21957]

MythMovies

MythMusic

MythNews

  • Make a few more widgets optional in MythNews [22780]


MythNetvision

  • Add MythNetvision as a MythTV Plugin for watching internet content. BETA RELEASE [23123]

MythVideo

  • Add a hashing method to MythVideo. Allows the user to move or rename files as they wish without losing metadata. [22866] [22870]
  • Add a new grabber script for version 2.1 of the TMDB API, tmdb.py. [22865]
  • Add ReleaseDate and Homepage parsing from the grabber scripts. Integrate MythBrowser popups to view Homepage straight from MythVideo (INFO->Video Info->View Homepage) [22791]
  • Make the MythVideo Banners, Fanart, Screenshots, and Coverart Storage Groups optional [22104]

MythWeather

Fix the BBC weather grabber after changes to the BBC web site and rss feeds. [21950] Fix the current conditions screen not working with the NWS script [22117]

MythWeb

MythZoneMinder

Support libraries

Python bindings

  • Complete overhaul of internal structure. Intended to abstract database access away from user, replaced by directly editable data objects. [23287]

Utility Applications

mythtranscode

mythcommflag

mythjobqueue

mythwelcome

mythshutdown

Contrib

  • mythvidexport.py - User job for exporting recordings to MythVideo [23313]
  • mythfs.py - FUSE program for mounting recording directories with user defined formatting [23313]
  • mythlink.pl - Rework of mythrename.pl to remove capacity to rename recordings. [23479]
  • 6200ch - Add support for QIP-6200 and DCX-3432 [23647]
  • 6200ch - Add support for 4-digit channels [23647]
  • Add an upstart script [22801]

Mythextras

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