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Revision as of 09:47, 28 March 2010

These are an overview of the changes in the 0.23 release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, have been backported to the 0.22-fixes release.


 
Major changes

  • New event system [23012]
  • Rewritten and greatly expanded python bindings [23416]
  • Addition of MythNetvision Plugin [23123]
  • New audio with surround sound upmixer
  • Addition of Arclight Theme [23275]
  • 15% faster software H.264 decoder [23525]



 

MythTV

New Features

  • Rewritten and greatly expanded python bindings [23416]
  • Addition of Arclight Theme [23275]
  • New event system [23012]
  • Rewritten audio (simplified configuration, multi-channels upmixing, automatic resampling).
  • Addition of MythNetvision Plugin [23123]


EIT

Firewire

UPNP

Setup

  • Simplified audio setup (digital audio users will need to edit their settings, typically if using surround setup, change Stereo to 5.1)
  • Channel Scanner - Analog channel scanning fixed [23657]

Audio

  • Multi-channels upmixer (similar in quality to DTS-Neo)
  • Automatic high-quality bitrate resampling to play any content on any hardware (using SRC library)
  • Fix digital passthrough for windows and add support for rate support detection [22826]

Video Playback

  • FFmpeg sync to revision 21657 [23525]
  • Add AVChapter support (works with Matroska and OGG chapters) [23226] [23231]
  • ITU BT709 colorspace (HD-TV) support and studio levels (RGB 16-235) (with VDPAU only) [22431]
  • Allow multiple dots in external subtitle filenames [22800]
  • Speed up recording playback startup by loading the osd menu more quickly [22784]
  • Removes PVR-350 output support [22845]
  • Internal dvd player - sorts audio tracks based on logical order [23079]
  • Remove the StickyKeys setting for fast forward/rewind [23112]
  • Scale and position DVD/DVB subtitles according to the display size [23189] [23220]
  • Add support for 2.35:1 aspect ratio override [23210]
  • New improved VDPAU rendering code [23235] [23236]
  • Fix VDPAU high quality scaling [23238]
  • Improved AVFormatDecoder seeking [23288]
  • Fix seeking to the beginning of certain streams that have non-zero start times [23294]

OSD

Windows Port

Theme Development

Themes

  • Fix the Metallurgy 'programguide-video' window definition. [22773]
  • Theme the program details screen in Metallurgy [22781]
  • Punch up some colors in the base.xml so that they are visible on all screens [22913]
  • Add an menu entry in the Info Center menu item for MythTwitter [22916]
  • Tweak metallury's system status screen so things fit a little better [22925]
  • Various MythCenter and MythCenter-wide theme updates [22941]
  • Declare the correct charset in the Program Details html [23016]
  • Add welcome-ui.xml to Metallurgy theme
  • Change the time format on Terra's backgrounds to hh:mm [23259]
  • Add the missing state type that indicates whether an image is marked in MythGallery to the Terra theme [23260]
  • Add the iconhelp popup to Terra [23261]
  • Optionally re-enable some of the "Delete Recordings" screen lost in the switch to MythUI [23284] [23293]

Translations

MythUI

  • Automatic font loading for theme-provided fonts, so system installation is no longer required [23594]
  • Allow right mouse clicks to close menus [22818]
  • Convert the DVD/Video bookmark popup to MythUI [23020]
  • Convert the 'View Schedule Changes' screen to mythui [23026]
  • Update MythDialogBox to emit a closed signal passing a reason for the closure [23102]
  • Add Cut, Copy and Paste support to MythUITextEdit [23144]
  • Support DELETE in MythUITextEdit [23153]
  • Allow the middle mouse button to paste from the selection buffer into textedits on platforms which support it [23180]
  • Optimised image loading from cache [23245]
  • Add dynamic buttonlist layouts to MythUIButtonList [23269]

Misc

  • Removes Xbox blinkenlights support [22786]
  • Removes DBox2 support [22790]
  • Fix incorrect status being displayed in the mythfrontend status box for a tuner that has an error [22860]
  • Add a RemoteFile::Hash method [22886]
  • Adds a GetSettings() method to MythDB to bulk load DB settings (speeds up playback startup) [22919]
  • Fixes the out-of-sync previews on different frontends bug [22932]
  • Speeds up Watch Recordings updates [22955]
  • Reconnect frontend to backend after disconnects [22958]
  • Fix NEXTSOURCE, PREVSOURCE, NEXTINPUT, and NEXTCARD key bindings [23004]
  • Allows all the items in a playlist to be marked as watched/unwatched [23064]
  • Contextualise 'Watch Recordings' menu [23103]
  • Fix keybinding usage consistency issues and keybinding collision between Global EDIT keybinding and TV Frontend CustomEdit keybinding [23106]
  • Change INFO to display the program details on the Program Search and Previously Recorded screens [23109]
  • Remove the "Show Group Summary" setting [23128]
  • Fix pluginname parsing on the mythfrontend command line [23208] [23225]
  • Add some additional guide categories [23257]

Network Control

  • Fix playback of filenames with spaces in 'play file' command. [23376]

mythbackend

  • Addition of a new event system to allow external system calls to be triggered on any listening system. [23012]
  • Speeds up the handling of no-file and zero-byte recordings on the backend [23042]
  • Adds an import recorder [23044]
  • Don't try to autoexpire things we've already failed to autoexpire [23054]
  • Removed the ComplexPriority scheduler setting and added a feature to warn when a less preferred showing of a program might be recorded [23118]
  • Don't allow mythbackend to upgrade the schema when called with --printsched, --testsched, --resched, --printexpire, or --generate-preview [23158]

Mac OS X

Plugins

MythArchive

  • Add season/episode/subtitle to the title in mytharchive when archiving videos [23255]

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythFlix

  • MythFlix was dropped from MythTV after the 0.22 release [22841]

MythGallery

  • Add some menu entries to mark/unmark a single image or all images in the current directory [23258]

MythGame

  • Migrate to QT4 [23115]
  • Make MythGame obey the global EDIT action for consistency [23116]

MythMovies

Fixes MythMovies operation due to newly-redirecting server layout [23096]

MythMusic

MythNews

  • Make a few more widgets optional in MythNews [22780]
  • Use image/jpeg enclosures as thumbnails in MythNews instead of trying to play them [22990]

MythNetvision

  • Add MythNetvision as a MythTV Plugin for watching internet content. BETA RELEASE [23123]
  • Handle HTTP Redirects in the RSS Feed Manager [23130]
  • New Grabber for Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv (This Week In Tech) [23183]

MythVideo

  • Add a hashing method to MythVideo. Allows the user to move or rename files as they wish without losing metadata. [22866] [22870]
  • Add a new grabber script for version 2.1 of the TMDB API, tmdb.py. [22865]
  • Add ReleaseDate and Homepage parsing from the grabber scripts. Integrate MythBrowser popups to view Homepage straight from MythVideo (INFO->Video Info->View Homepage) [22791]
  • Fix jump points not always working properly in MythVideo [23085]

MythWeather

Fix MythWeather's location searches following changes at the BBC's Weather Forecast site [22988]

MythWeb

MythZoneMinder

Support libraries

Python bindings

  • Complete overhaul of internal structure. Intended to abstract database access away from user, replaced by directly editable data objects. [23287]

Utility Applications

mythtranscode

mythcommflag

Add a --clearskiplist option to mythcommflag to allow clearing the commercial skip list for a recording [22982]

mythjobqueue

mythwelcome

mythlcdserver

mythshutdown

Contrib

  • mythvidexport.py - User job for exporting recordings to MythVideo [23313]
  • mythfs.py - FUSE program for mounting recording directories with user defined formatting [23313]
  • mythlink.pl - Rework of mythrename.pl to remove capacity to rename recordings. [23479]
  • 6200ch - Add support for QIP-6200 and DCX-3432 [23647]
  • 6200ch - Add support for 4-digit channels [23647]
  • Add an upstart script [22801]

Mythextras

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