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Revision as of 21:27, 25 July 2010
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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.
0.23 encompasses revisions from ~[22756] through the 0.23-fixes branch release of ~[24509]
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]
- Channel Scanner - Analog channel scanning fixed [23657]
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
- Ability to upmix stereo material to 5.1 and encode as AC3 (similar in quality to DTS Neo)
- Upmixer toggle
- Automatic detection of hardware supported sample rates
- Automatic high-quality bitrate resampling to play any content on any hardware (using SRC library)
- Preservation of timestretch across stream changes
- Simplify Audio User Settings
- Various digital passthrough fixes
- Fix digital passthrough for windows [22826]
- Software volume for digital audio
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] [23362]
- 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]
- Add support for the repeat_pict count and improve the handling of certain A/V sync cases [23321]
- Add support for MPEG4 hardware acceleration [23340] [23530]
- 15% faster software H.264 decoder [23525]
- Don't try and switch renderer if the video resolution is unchanged [23398]
- Make VideoDisplayProfile options platform dependant [23420]
- Improved handling of aspect ratio changes in the video stream [23456]
- Add to configure k8-sse3, opteron-sse3, athlon64-sse3, and barcelona as valid x86 cpus [23534]
- Use timecode for time based SRT subtitles instead of frameNumber [23744]
- CEA-708 Subtitling improvements [23769]
OSD
- Speed up font loading in OSD [23402]
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] [23377] [23378] [23390] [23487] [23507] [23548] [23577] plus many more
- 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]
- Allow the themer to show what recording group you are currently in [23326]
- Make background an optional element for MythUITextEdit [23331]
- Theme the game detail popup in Terra [23333]
- Theme part of MythNetvision in Terra [23334]
- Theme the web browser in Terra [23335]
- Theme the System Status screen in Terra [23336]
- Theme the main MythNews window in Terra [23337]
- Display Video coverart when appropriate in the Blackcurves OSD [23339]
- Use QFont::setStretch() to allow us to handle non-square pixels such as those on my 16:9 plasma that is only 1024x768 resolution [23382]
- Remove the old, legacy themes [23442]
- Add some extra information to the description panel in BlackCurves-OSD [23471]
- Add a version of welcome-ui.xml to the Terra theme [23580]
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]
- Reduce CPU usage in MythUI by 70 ms per second by using a replacement timer class [23304]
- Adds <minsize> tag to <textarea>, <shape> and <imagetype> [23324]
- Allow retrieval of text from named textarea in a button list item [23400]
- Allow a user style sheet to be loaded in MythUIWebBrowser [23714]
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]
- Don't block LIRC & JOYSTICK when mounting a file-system [23314]
- Immediately delete recordings from UI when the user deletes them [23388]
- Restore the minimum truncate rate for slow deletes [23435]
- Don't block with the myth_system() commands in the screensaver handling [23457]
- Fix the screenshot filename used with the ScreenShot jump point [23458]
- When running under a managed session, use that session's tools to shutdown/reboot [23518]
- Add a --python= option to configure [23526]
- Sync --extra-cflags handling with ffmpeg's configure [23815]
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]
- Add TCP keepalive to MythSocket connections [23397]
- Upgrade hdhomerun to version 20100121 of SiliconDust's lib [23468]
- Add Czech DVB-T frequency table [23600]
- Add Greek DVB-T Frequency table [23601]
- Add WMAPRO codec identification [23610]
- Allow the 'wants' events' field in the ANNounce string to specify whether a client wants to receive (0) no events, (1) all events, (2) non-system events, or (3) only system events [23636]
- Add SECAM-DK option to list of v4l TV formats [23695]
Plugins
- Add season/episode/subtitle to the title in mytharchive when archiving videos [23255]
MythFlix
- MythFlix was dropped from MythTV after the 0.22 release [22841]
- Add some menu entries to mark/unmark a single image or all images in the current directory [23258]
- Migrate to QT4 [23115]
- Make MythGame obey the global EDIT action for consistency [23116]
Fixes MythMovies operation due to newly-redirecting server layout [23096]
- Make a few more widgets optional in MythNews [22780]
- Use image/jpeg enclosures as thumbnails in MythNews instead of trying to play them [22990]
- 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]
- Add options to enable/disable background updating of RSS and site maps [23452]
- 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]
- Fix MythWeather's location searches following changes at the BBC's Weather Forecast site [22988]
- Improved location searching in the 'uk_bbc' MythWeather scripts [23732]
- Add "New York City Doppler Radar 600" animated weather map [23733]
- Fix the script loading progress bar not always being visible [23734]
- Fix switching units and locations not working properly [23735]
Support libraries
- Complete overhaul of internal structure. Intended to abstract database access away from user, replaced by directly editable data objects. [23287]
Utility Applications
- Modify mythtranscode such that it doesn't attempt to transcode files when --buildindex is used [23363]
mythcommflag
Add a --clearskiplist option to mythcommflag to allow clearing the commercial skip list for a recording [22982]
mythjobqueue
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]
- Remove the file-renaming support from mythrename.pl [23474]
- Modify mythlink.pl to allow creating a symlink for a specific recording file using the --filename or --chanid and --starttime arguments [23479]
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