Release Notes - 0.20

Watch this space for 0.20 changes. The changes listed on this page will appear first in Subversion, if you just can't wait. But be prepared... Updated through revision 8977

MythTV

New Features

• Improved internal DVD player now supporting menus and other missing features
• Support audio cards that do not provide MASTER/PCM like M-Audio Revolution 7.1
• --nohousekeeper command-line option to mythbackend to disable the housekeeping thread
• New GUIDE keybinding while watching recordings to bring up the EPG
• New FINDER keybinding (defaults to F6) while watching recordings to bring up the Program Finder
• Stereo, CC, and HD indicators in Watch Recordings screen for a recording
• New VIEWCARD keybinding (defaults to Y) in Upcoming Recordings to cycle through all scheduled programs on each tuner

MacOS

• Added hardware accelerated MPEG-2 playback

DVB

• Support for DVB radio channels and guide data collected via EIT for them

DiSEqc

• Added support for Dish Networks DiSEqC switch

EIT

• Faster decoding of ATSC EIT tables
• Support for Dish Network EIT information

Network Control

• key command accepts multiple inputs like "key up up enter"
• new "QUERY recording CHANID STARTIME" to list information about a single recording

Plugins

MythWeb

• Remote tuners display details of their activities on the status page instead of just "recording"

Utility Applications

mythcommflag

• Added --getskiplist to print out the commercial skip list, useful for making .edl files for mplayer