Difference between revisions of "Release Notes - 0.21"

Revision as of 04:04, 24 October 2006

MythTV

New Features

• Added Watch List feature to Watch Recordings listing programs most useful to watch in order to catch up on series and shows you have fallen behind in watching.
• Added support for QAM recording using HDHomeRun device. Requires firmware 21-09-2006 or newer.
• Added new 'watched' flag for recordings which can be set manually or automatically and optinally increase auto expiration priority for watched shows. Includes a new 'watched' icon in the frontend and in MythWeb.
• Attempt to re-record programs that are not recorded because of a channel change failure
• Added support for AC3 passthrough audio with OSS drivers
• Added Schedule Status to the System Status screen
• Better caching of recording data on frontend for faster performance
• Added short commands for telnet control of the frontend
• Added option for non-default MySQL port configuration using the DBPort option in the mysql.txt
• Use tv_find_grabbers to find XMLTV grabbers to use. Requires XMLTV version 0.5.43 or higher.
• Updated --nosched command-line option to the backend to prevent only new recordings from firing off. It does not prevent the scheduler from running which allows for better debugging. Recordings not recorded during this time are marked as rsOffLine.
• Added Last Recorded and Next Recording to Program Details screen
• Pressing '7' on the Recording Priorities screen allows sorting by last_record field
• Power on a firewire connected recorder if it is off when interacting with it
• Added '-v most' verbose option to show most debugging messages without showing excesssively verbose options like database
• Added options for debugging events on the master backend
• Added CHANGERECGROUP keyboard binding in Watch Recordings to bring up the Select Group Filter box. No key is bound by default.
• The 'Delete Follows Symlinks' feature now follows relative symlinks
• Added Echostar and Nimiq tv service type descriptors for digital recordings
• Program Finder entries are now highlighted like the Watch Recordings screen
• Added support for US style EIA-608 captions
• Allow European non-numeric freqid's to be added by mythfilldatabase
• Added support for polarity inversion in DiSEqC setups
• Allow control of the number of pre-cached theme resolutions
• Added ability to record either the main audio, SAP audio, or both (with recent ivtv drivers)
• Disabled convert filter
• Extended support for recovery from a EINVAL or EIO to v4l2 drivers
• Improved INFO menu with toggle buttons for AutoExpire and Episode Preservation
• Added option to sort the "All Programs" list differently from other program lists
• Added multi-select option for selecting default view of Watch Recordings
• Add a CHANGEGROUPVIEW keybinding on the Watch Recordings screen to allow directly popping up the Group View changer
• Add the ability to have a 'Preserved' flag icon on the Watch Recordings screen. No themes were modified to support this as it is up to theme designers to implement if desired due to the already large number of possible icon flags.
• Allow turning off of UPnP support with --noupnp option on the backend.
• Allow selection of dual audio track from the OSD menu instead of mute hack
• Improved performance of scheduler which should improve performance of Watch Recordings when

recordings are deleted, stopped or started

Fixes

• Fixed programinfo passing between master and slave backend. This required a protocol change to version 31.
• Prevent the OSD from always being drawn, even when not in use
• Fixed V4L2 API compatibility with IVTV 0.8
• Separated font sizing from display DPI
• Fixed updating of the last_record field
• Fixed bug in cutlist conversion
• Fixed bug where Playback screen would be missing the recorded ID for a show
• Reduced firewire packet buffer from 8000 to 2000
• Verify that a firewire node is a STB
• Fixed 8PSK modulation tuning
• Added EIT fixup for MultiChoice Africa
• 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
• Added date to UPnP resonse header
• Fixed issue with aborted data over UPnP
• Fixed truncating delete code by grabbing filesize prior to unlinking
• Improved sending of committed DiSEqC messages
• Disabled automatic portion of WrapTimecode which was causing problems
• Fixed TS packet handling when discontinuity detected
• Fixed South African VHF frequencies
• Fixed SW42 and SW64 support for pre-DiSEqC
• Fixed defaulting of channel source when adding a new channel in the channel editor
• Fixed favorite channel and direct channel entering in browse mode
• Added Intel IEGD driver to fix for broken I420 support
• Fixed deleting a video source which did not delete its associated channels
• Fixed audio muting issue with v4l-compat support
• Fixed quickdnr, denoise3d, and crop filters to work with padded YUV strides
• Fixed scanning of DVB-C muxes
• Fixed deletion of orphaned channels
• Fixed the transport editor which was only showing data if a DVB device was connected.
• Fixed the transport editor presenting HDHomeRun and HDTV transports as analog transports not as ATSC transports.
• Fixed the transport editor showing DVB-S frequencies as being in Hz, when they are actually in kHz.
• Fixed ATSC EIT time offset
• Fixed the recordedprogram, recordedrating, and recordedcredits tables cleanup and move the cleanup into the housekeeper instead of mythfilldatabase
• Allow renumbered ATSC channels to be sorted properly
• Tightens the criteria for a private stream to be declared as a video stream which should fix recordings of some channels where this was a problem

MacOS

• Added MediaMonitor support
• Improved audio timestamp calculations

Plugins

MythArchive

• Added support for threading processes if system reports more than one processor available
• Added options for setting DVD date and time formats
• Added a thumbnail offset and bookmark image option to MythArchive
• Added ability to change the final order that files will be shown on the DVD title menus
• Added a button on the chapter menu to take you back to the title menu
• Fixed problem where mytharchivehelper was returning the wrong aspect ratio for .nuv files
• Fixed bug where save directory was not being passed properly
• Fixed bug where all recording fields were not requested from the database
• Prevent installation of plugin if all archiving options are disabled
• Fixed problems with filenames containing apostrophes
• Look for music and images in shared folders after default locations
• Fixed wrong aspect ratio when using Autoplay themes

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythDVD

• 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
• Fixed title menu selection
• Added chapter menu to osd menu when watching dvd
• Made jumps using seekrwnd, and seekfwd a little more predictable
• Handle transition from main title to still frame and a resolution change when using the standard decoder

MythFlix

MythGallery

• Prevents unbound keys from stopping a slideshow
• Info key tells you what kind of slideshow you are in

MythGame

MythMusic

• Fixed SQL error when adding by genre to playlist

MythNews

MythPhone

• Fix two translation issues with the call popup dial or answer dialog

MythVideo

• Improved imdb.pl handling of no year titles
• Fixed segfault when external player exits
• Fixed MySQL 3.x compatibility

MythWeather

MythWeb

• Completed mp3act integration with music module
• Fixed passing null values when scheduling recordings
• Fixed myth:// URLs
• Improved file streaming using sys calls
• Fixed links for manually overridden video URLs
• Fixed music module detection
• Allow negative recording priorities to be set
• Fixed login for users who use both mobile and PC logins
• Fixed category display

Support libraries

Utility Applications

myth_archive_job.pl

• Don't divide the file size by 1 megabyte twice

mythrename.pl

• Modified to use new Perl bindings

myth.rebuilddatabase.pl

• Fixed --quick-run

mythtranscode

• Stop transcoding when total frames is reached to prevent stray frames
• Fixed some audio sync issues
• Fixed not reinitializing stream properties when changing streams
• Fixed segfault by taking the 1st video stream (rather than the last) when multiple video streams are present
• Fixed segfault with non-empty buffer
• Fixed padding packets from being written to stream
• When resizing video in the lossy side of mythtranscode, trim off the bottom 8 pixels when we encounter a video file that is 1088 pixels high

mythfilldatabase

• Add another check criteria that will force mythfilldatabase to download data for a particular day. If the number of channels with at least one program between 6pm and midnight is less than 90% of the count for the previous day, a data refresh will be initiated.
• Parse more information from the xmltv data, including HDTV, subtitle and audio details

mythwelcome

• Fixed crashes with hybrid tuner cards

firewire_tester

• Added -R option to reset firewire bus