Release Notes - 0.20.1
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MythTV 0.20.1 Release
The following fixes have been applied to the release-0-20-fixes branch, formally released as MythTV 0.20.1 on Saturday, April 28, 2007. These are changes since the 0.20 release. Updated through revision 13330 |
MythTV 0.20.1 Release
Major changes
- Fixed programinfo passing between master and slave backend. This required a protocol change to version 31.
New features
- Attempt to re-record programs that are not recorded because of a channel change failure
- Added Echostar and Nimiq tv service type descriptors for digital recordings
- Allow configuration of diseq repeat count
- Added support for QAM recording using HDHomeRun device. Requires firmware 21-09-2006 or newer.
- Added --no-upnp option to mythbackend to work around situations where UPnP support consumes 100% CPU
- Added tuning of raw MPEG channels in HDHRRecorder
Fixes
- Fixed commercial skip to ignore skips that take you to the end of the file (#3275)
- Fixed problem with available disk space calculations
- Fixed atsc channel scanning (#3301)
- Fixed segfault in mythtv-setup (#2735)
- Fixed diseqc polarity and repeat settings (#2226)
- Fixed maxepisode counter
- Fixed assorted keybinding
- Work-around for ATI fglrx crash bug (#2302)
- Fix unnecessarily high cpu usage with xvmc playback
- Fixed issues with some dvb adapters with a limited number of pid filters (#1970)
- QAM fixes for the HDHomeRun
- Fixed problem with backend wakeup not properly respecting early/late recording start times (#2883)
- Fixed cpu temperature monitoring code so it doesn't crash the backend anymore (#2895)
- Fixed segfault while editing a recording (#2746)
- Misc transcoder fixes (#2420)
- Misc EIT fixups
- Fixed programinfo passing between master and slave backend. This required a protocol change to version 31.
- Fixed V4L2 API compatibility with IVTV 0.8
- Fixed updating of the last_record field
- Fixed bug in cutlist conversion
- Reduced firewire packet buffer from 8000 to 2000
- Fixed 8PSK modulation tuning
- Fixed problem causing duplicate rows for manually scheduled programs to appear in Watch Recording list
- Fixed problem where backend might fail deleting a file due to filename being changed by transcoding
- Fixed problem with non-GUI programs initalizing OSD
- Fixed issue with aborted data over UPnP
- Fixed truncating delete code by grabbing filesize prior to unlinking
- Improved sending of committed diseq messages
- Fixed favorite channel and direct channel entering in browse mode
- Fixed deleting a video source which did not delete its associated channels
- Fixed SW42 and SW64 support for pre-DiSEqC
- Fixed the recordedprogram, recordedrating, and recordedcredits tables cleanup and move the cleanup into the housekeeper instead of mythfilldatabase
- Fixed deletion of orphaned channels
- Fixed playback by selecting the first video stream found in the PMT. This allows allows the people with weird broadcasts to function, without inhibiting the functionality of Interactve TV (MHEG)
- Fixed problems with the "Auto" time-offset in ATSC EIT
Plugins
MythArchive
- Fixed problem with some dvd export profiles (#3314)
- Fixed date/time offset bug (#2651)
- Converted all intros and menu music tracks to AC3 audio
- Fixed bug where save directory was not being passed properly
- Fixed problem where mytharchivehelper was returning the wrong aspect ratio for .nuv files
- Fixed problems with filenames containing apostrophes
- Fixed a mixup when retrieving the chanid and starttime from the DB
- Fixed problem with No Menu theme when trying to add movies
MythBrowser
MythControls
MythDVD
- Fixed playback issue with DVDs featuring full-resolution subtitles (#2800)
- Fixed issues with eject button when media monitor is disabled (#2462)
- Fixed choppy playback on some DVD main titles
- Fixed segfault when external player exits
- Fixed problem with missing menu buttons on some DVD titles
- Fixed enabling of subtitles from main DVD menu
MythFlix
MythGallery
MythGame
MythMusic
- Fixed segfault when multiple types of encoded audio files are in a playlist (#2557)
- Added support for flac 1.1.3+ api changes (#2957)
- Fixed SQL error when adding by genre to playlist
MythNews
MythPhone
- Fix two translation issues with the call popup dial or answer dialog
MythVideo
- Fixed metadata search problem when no country and/or genre exists for movie
- Fixed imdb scraping (#3118)
- Fixed segfault when external player exits
MythWeather
MythWeb
- Fixed passing null values when scheduling recordings
- Fixed myth:// URLs
- Fixed links for manually overridden video URLs
- Fixed music module detection
- Improved file streaming using sys calls
- Allow negative recording priorities to be set
- Fixed category display
- Apply sanity check for the date range popup menu, for those people who occasionally get wacky data from DVB EIT data
Support libraries
Utility applications
myth_archive_job.pl
- Don't divide the file size by 1 megabyte twice
mythtranscode
- Fixed segfault by taking the first video stream (rather than the last) when multiple video streams are present
mythwelcome
- Fixed crashes with hybrid tuner cards