Revision as of 16:09, 28 July 2007

MythTV 0.20.2 Release

MythTV

Features

Fixes

• Fixes hdtv, stereo and subtitle icons, by ensuring we link correctly against the recordedprogram table.
• Fix some discrepancies in how the preview generator determines the filename.

Plugins

Mythvideo

• Fix mythvideo bug where both metadata trees could be built at the same time.

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.

MythMusic

• Give the mythmusic plugin an eject button.

MythTV 0.20.1 Release

MythTV

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