Release Notes - 0.28

Note: Please note that the following reflects changes for a future release of MythTV currently in development and not recommended for production use. The current release is 34.0. Important 0.27 Dates Event Date Changeset Development Started 2 Sep 2013 [0ab56a2] Alpha Released TBD TBD Beta Released TBD TBD RC Released TBD TBD Final Release TBD TBD The 0.28 release encompasses development revisions from [0ab56a2] though [TBD].     Key New Features Major Changes Prerequisite Changes Added support libraries/prerequisites libexif taglib version to 1.7 (version 1.8 or higher is recommended, but MythTV will compile with 1.7) Removed support libraries/prerequisites Special Notices & Instructions As always, backup your database before upgrading, see this. Services API clients should review Services API. Significant changes have been made to the API.

 

Support libraries & Frameworks

Services API

• [1f81373],[f1dffbe] Add support for music album artwork to upnp.
  • <BE>:6544/Content/GetAlbumArt?TrackId&Width&Height

• [378fe05] UPNP: Support multiple artwork sizes for recordings, video and music
  • Add support for coverart albumArtwork for recordings
  • Send preview image for recordings as a resource <res> instead
  • Change use JPG rather than PNG

• [9b42c22], [307ae28] Add image service API to the backend.
  • <BE>:6544/Image/SetImageInfo?Id&Tag&Value );
  • <BE>:6544/Image/SetImageInfoByFileName?FileName&Tag
  • <BE>:6544/Image/GetImageInfo?Id&Tag );
  • <BE>:6544/Image/GetImageInfoByFileName?FileName&Tag
  • <BE>:6544/Image/GetImageInfoList?Id
  • <BE>:6544/Image/GetImageInfoListByFileName?FileName
  • <BE>:6544/Image/RemoveImageFromDB?Id
  • <BE>:6544/Image/RemoveImage?Id
  • <BE>:6544/Image/StartSync
  • <BE>:6544/Image/StopSync
  • <BE>:6544/Image/GetSyncStatus

• [776379c] Add new service API call to only get the directories from a certain storage group.
  • <BE>:6544/Content/GetImageFile?StorageGroup

• [c7f317e],[1ed2cf0] Add new service API calls to rename or delete a certain file.
  • <BE>:6544/Content::DeleteFile??StorageGroup&FileName
  • <BE>:6544/Content/RenameFile?StorageGroup&FileName&NewName)

• [d34c696] Change: Use the ChannelIcon storage group.
  • <BE>:6544/Guide/GetChannelIcon?ChanId

• [15b8290] Fix: GetChannelIcon when height or width are specified
  • <BE>:6544/Guide/GetChannelIcon?ChanId<int>&Width=<int>&Height=<int>

• [903e820] Use the ChannelInfo class instead of loading data in fragments from ChannelUtil

• [2b680bd] Change: Merge some identical channel loading code in the guide and channel services.
  • Start exposing correct visibility information for channels returned by GetProgramGuide. This would be necessary for any third parties wishing only to display the channels the user actually wants to use (which may be dozens out of hundreds for Satellite/Cable).
  • Change some argument types from int to uint for consistency, and because these cannot legitimately be less than zero so it forces users of the services API to provide sane values.
  • <BE>:6544/Channel/GetChannelInfoList?SourceID=<uint>&StartIndex=<uint>&Count=<uint>
  • <BE>:6544/Channel/GetChannelInfo?ChanID=<uint>
  • <BE>:6544/Channel/GetVideoMultiplexList?SourceID=<uint>&StartIndex=<uint>&Count=<uint>
  • <BE>:6544/Channel/GetVideoMultiplex?MplexID=<uint>
  • <BE>:6544/Channel/GetXMLTVIdList?SourceID=<uint>

• [a180bbc] Change: Order programs in GetProgramGuide by starttime.

• [7c8e274] Change: Fix aggregation of channel and program information in GetProgramGuide.
  • <BE>:6544/guide/GetProgramGuide?StartTime...
  • See commit for new sort SQL

• [6444664] Add a guide grid to the internal web-server.
  • <BE>:6544/myth/GetFormatDate?Date=<yyyy-mm-dd>&ShortDate=<bool>
  • <BE>:6544/myth/GetFormatTime?Time=<yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ>
  • <BE>:6544/myth/ParseISODateString?DateTimeString=<yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ>

• [e8bfd99] Change: Add support for loading season, episode and total episodes into ProgramInfo.

• [641d612] Change: Add Recording Schedule methods to scriptable API.
  • AddRecordSchedule
  • UpdateRecordSchedule
  • RemoveRecordSchedule
  • GetRecordScheduleList
  • GetRecordSchedule
  • GetRecordSchedule
  • EnableRecordSchedule
  • DisableRecordSchedule

• [feb008b] Add RecStatusToString method to the DVR class. This may be replaced with a better approach later so I'm not bumping the service version.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/RecStatusToString?RecStatus=<int>

• [5fde814] Fix inclusion of year of release in services Program object.

• [829e52f] Move image thumbnail generation to the backend.
  • <BE>:6544/Image/StartThumbnailGeneration
  • <BE>:6544/Image/StopThumbnailGeneration
  • <BE>:6544/Image/CreateThumbnail?Id=<int>
  • <BE>:6544/Image/RecreateThumbnail?Id=<int>
  • <BE>:6544/Image/SetThumbnailSize?Width=<int>&Height=<int>

• [b393eec] Change: Add Delete and AllowRerecord.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/RemoveRecorded?ChanId=<int>&StartTime&ForceDelete=<bool>&AllowRerecord=<bool>

• [3f37ba4] Always include the chanID in a Program object.

• [22c59c8] Fix 'reverse' sorting in Dvr::GetRecordedList.

• [c05d238] Add UnDeleteRecording method. Name may be subject to change.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/DeleteRecording?ChanId=<int>&StartTime=<rawStartTime>&ForceDelete=<bool>&AllowRerecord=<bool>
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/UnDeleteRecording?ChanId=<int>&StartTime

• [c884c89] Add DVR::GetUpcomingList to the scriptable API.

• [3084ebc] Fix DVR::GetUpcomingList to include in-progress recordings. This mirrors the behaviour of MythFrontend and the old MythWeb.

• [55614a6] Add RecStatusToDescription and RecTypeToString methods to DVR.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/RecStatusToDescription?RecStatus=<int>&RecType=<int>&StartTime=<rawStartTime>
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/RecTypeToString?RecType=<int>

• [7159d46] Add the 'Encoder' display name to the Recording Object.

• [d4247a9] Add AddDontRecordSchedule to the DVR service. Takes an optional NeverRecord argument.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/AddDontRecordSchedule?ChanId=<int>&StartTime=<rawStartTime>&NeverRecord=<bool>

• [725a72c] Change: Optionally allow Dvr::GetTitleList to be filtered by Recording Group.
  • <BE>:6544/Dvr/GetTitleList?RecGroup=<string>

• [f1600e0] Add GetChannelGroupList method to Guide service.
  • <BE>:6544/Guide/GetChannelGroupList?IncludeEmpty=<bool>

• [67cf9c5] Change Allow filtering by Channel Group in GetProgramGuide.
  • <BE>:6544/Guide/GetProgramGuide?StartTime=<rawStartTime>&EndTime=<rawStartTime>&StartChanId=<int>&NumChannels=<int>&Details=<bool>&Details=<bool>&ChannelGroupId=<int>

• [d2a14f2] Use JPG for preview images instead of PNG, at these resolutions JPG looks no worse than PNG and smaller file sizes mean faster page loads over a slow network connection.
  • <BE>:6544/Content/GetPreviewImage?ChanId=<int>&StartTime=<rawStartTime>&Width=<int>&Height=<int>&SecsIn=<int>&Format=<string>

• 1c4df6a Not an API change, but the last is this 1st set of changes, start the next group here.