Difference between revisions of "Release Notes - 0.24"

From MythTV Official Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(OSD: - add r24016 - show EIA-608/708 captions)
(MythZoneMinder: - changeset r23990 was reverted)
Line 109: Line 109:
  
 
=== [[MythZoneMinder]] ===
 
=== [[MythZoneMinder]] ===
* Use global time setting, eliminating 2 redundant settings {{changeset|23990}}
 
  
 
== Support libraries ==
 
== Support libraries ==

Revision as of 16:56, 8 April 2010

These are an overview of the changes in the 0.24 release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, have been backported to the 0.23.1 release.


 

Major Changes

New Features


 

MythTV

mythfrontend

  • Bug fix & minor optimizations to Program Finder when loading programs that start with "A"/"An"/"The" [23853]
  • Removed the PreviewPixmapOffset setting (Smart Pixmap Offset) [23993]

EIT

  • EITFixup: heuristic fixup for short events marked as category type "movie" [23973]

Firewire

UPNP

Setup

  • Fix editable comboboxes [23803]
  • Tuning: Add DVB-T frequency table for Denmark [23988] and sort DVB tables alphabetically [23989]

Audio

  • Populate the alsa devices in audio setup by using the API, rather than a static list of devices ([23794], [23961])
  • Enables TrueHD as the prefered audio format when available, and better language selection logic [23874]

Video Playback

  • Add ability to disable the deblocking skiploop filter for h264 decoding ([23981], [23987])
  • DVD Playback: Handle resolution changes more gracefully [23985]
  • Change manual zoom increments from 10% to 5% [24015]

OSD

  • Fix EIA-608/708 captions even if they are not described in the PMT caption descriptors [24016]

MythUI

Network Control

mythbackend

  • Smart Preview Pixmap Generation - (In addition: Eliminated redundant pixmap generation) [23993]
  • Fix leaking streamdata in the DVBRecorder (Move basic stream data handling to DTVRecorder) [24002]

Scheduler

  • Various minor scheduler cleanups, tweaks, and optimizations ([23798], TBD)

Misc

  • Many trivial code cleanups and updates based on cppcheck, static analysis, and other coding best practices

Translations

Themes

Arclight

Misc. Theme Development

Ports

Mac OS X

Windows

  • Find correct "Program Files" dir location on 64-bit versions ([23793], [23809])
  • Various other Windows build fixes ([23792],TBD)

Plugins

MythArchive

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythGallery

MythGame

MythMovies

MythMusic

MythNews

MythNetvision

MythVideo

  • Remove unique bookmark settings for DVD playback, and make bookmark usage consistant across the internal player [23994]

MythWeather

  • Add unit (F or C) to temp on 18h screen [23992]
  • Changed kph to km/h [23992]
  • Added copyright to various weather screens [23992]
  • Added UTF-8 support for script output [23992]
  • Changed the local cache file to replace "/" with "-" to prevent conflicts with scripts that use "/" in station names [23992]
  • Added the option to return no data for an item by returning "---" [23992]
  • Increased the size of the location field in weatherdatalayout to varchar(128) [23992]
  • Added yr.no service - 3 day / 6 day / 18 hour (actually 36 hour) [23992]
  • Added wunderground service - 3 day / 6 day [23992]

MythWeb

  • Updated for tmdb.pl changes and cover art storage groups [23859]

MythZoneMinder

Support libraries

Python bindings

Utility Applications

mythtranscode

mythcommflag

mythjobqueue

mythwelcome

mythshutdown

Contrib

Mythextras

nuvexport