Revision as of 16:02, 13 September 2007

MythTV 0.20.2 Release

MythTV

Major Changes

• Support for SchedulesDirect including caching and multiple MythTV video sources per SD lineup [See http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.4 ]
• Reduced mythfrontend memory consumption by up to 75% depending on theme and resolution.
  • (N.B. Ranges from 0% with Iulius to 75% with MythCenter)

Features

• Faster startup of mythfrontend and mythtv-setup from changes to theme prescaling.
• Improved default theme images with better scaling and anti-aliasing
• Backported XMLTV changes to help former Zap2It users switch to a new grabber
• Improved --version output, including the branch name.
• Entire UPnP stack from trunk backported to address numerous UPnP problems

Fixes

• Fixes for ATSC (QAM, VSB) channel scanning
• Fix compilation on systems with both QT3 and QT4 installed by using QTDIR to find the right qmake
• Fix some recording rules being deleted a day early which caused missed recordings
• Fix stuttering playback caused by refresh rate detection problem
• Fixes hdtv, stereo and subtitle icons, by ensuring we link correctly against the recordedprogram table.
• Fix segfault when accessing mythtv-setup over ssh from a machine without XRandR.
• Fix some discrepancies in how the preview generator determines the filename.
• Various updates for german EIT encoding fixups
• Fix. A "video" stream with an unknown codec will no longer cause the frontend to exit.
• IVTV recording fixes
• Fix incorrect use of free() instead of delete.
• Fix screen repainting problems when using offsets and opengl.
• Fixes for positioning in the MythCenter-wide program finder screen
• Fix UTF8 Characters being corrupted for recording titles
• Fix for cifsxxxx files being left around after a transcode
• Fix an issue of the wrong filter name appearing in the title section when the user aborted changing filters when trying to change to a Recording Group that had a password.
• Fix, force Latin encoding for EIT for two German DVB-T Channels.
• Don't exit the backend if the user has misconfigured their capture cards.
• Allow --version to be used across ssh even without X11 forwarding.
• Allow mythfrontend to be built against libdca if it is installed instead of libdts
• Fix spacing of audio/subtitle track description in OSD Info Popup
• Fix EIT 'airdate' sanity check
• Fix, prevent duplicate CI ids

Plugins

Mythvideo

• Fix mythvideo bug where both metadata trees could be built at the same time.
• Fix file browse issue where filenames were incorrectly converted to titles.
• Fixes needed due to allocine site changes.
• Fix pruning of empty directories in views.
• Fixes path issues
• Fixes and improvements to the imdb script

MythDVD

• Adds a new option "Let transcode determine frame rate"

MythArchive

• Fix mytharchive/mythburn to work with recent versions of ffmpeg.
• Fix mythvideo bug where both metadata trees could be built at the same time.
• Fixes to multipass encoding (HQ Profile)

MythMusic

• Give the mythmusic plugin an eject button.
• Fix. Don't keep trying to play ejected CD (partial solution for one scenario)
• Fixes for Flac 1.1.4

MythWeb

• Correct a bunch of broken/missing translation strings (#3406)
• Errors messages when unable to connect to MSNBC and weather.com are now suppressed
• Fixes for the mobile-template detection
• Add Opera Mobile browser as a recognised mini-browser
• Fix for PHP 5.2.x session bug

MythGallery

• Fix broken 'copy' feature
• Add wmv to known filetypes
• Fix Compilation issue with X11

MythWeather

• Disabled by default in configure since it no longer works

MythTV 0.20.1 Release

See Release Notes - 0.20.1