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= Key New Features =
 
= Key New Features =
* Enable certain MythNetvision sources to be controlled via remote(lirc) instead of keyboard/mouse
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* Enable capable MythNetvision sources to be controlled via remote(lirc) instead of keyboard/mouse
 
* MythMessage, a user messaging interface ''(replacement for mythtvosd)''
 
* MythMessage, a user messaging interface ''(replacement for mythtvosd)''
 
* Web based backend setup utility ''(replacement for mythtv-setup)''
 
* Web based backend setup utility ''(replacement for mythtv-setup)''
 
* HTTP control capabilities for MythFrontend ''(Currently a Proof of Concept)''
 
* HTTP control capabilities for MythFrontend ''(Currently a Proof of Concept)''
 
* Support E-AC3, TrueHD and DTS-HD digital passthrough
 
* Support E-AC3, TrueHD and DTS-HD digital passthrough
* Hardware profiler to help developers understand the user's hardware landscape ''(opt-in)''
+
* Hardware profiler to help developers understand the user's hardware landscape and statistics ''(opt-in)''
 
* DirectX Video Acceleration 2 (DXVA2) on Windows ''(alpha support)''
 
* DirectX Video Acceleration 2 (DXVA2) on Windows ''(alpha support)''
 
* New, robust Microsoft Windows build script
 
* New, robust Microsoft Windows build script
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* Significantly enhanced and integrated metadata lookup capabilities for videos and recordings
 
* Significantly enhanced and integrated metadata lookup capabilities for videos and recordings
 
* Removed jamu - superseded by MythMetadataLookup
 
* Removed jamu - superseded by MythMetadataLookup
 +
* Integrate and leverage internal player in MythNetvision when possible
  
 
== Prerequisite Changes ==
 
== Prerequisite Changes ==
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* Add initial beta UPnP media server scanner and client support to mythfrontend ({{gitcommit|382fbcc}}, {{gitcommit|17c45ca}})
 
* Add initial beta UPnP media server scanner and client support to mythfrontend ({{gitcommit|382fbcc}}, {{gitcommit|17c45ca}})
 
** Currently disabled until UI is built
 
** Currently disabled until UI is built
 +
* Add a Season/Episode sort order in the Watch Recordings screen {{gitcommit|5a19ce0}}
  
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
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* Fix remote (mythweb) screenshots ({{gitcommit|204f818}}, {{gitcommit|6be90d3}})
 
* Fix remote (mythweb) screenshots ({{gitcommit|204f818}}, {{gitcommit|6be90d3}})
 
* Fix the setting to restore the same position in browser, gallery and tree views for browsing videos {{gitcommit|b03a6b6}} - Fixed {{ticket|7425}}
 
* Fix the setting to restore the same position in browser, gallery and tree views for browsing videos {{gitcommit|b03a6b6}} - Fixed {{ticket|7425}}
 +
* Send PLAY_UNPAUSE when play is hit during pause {{gitcommit|cb38a52}} - fixed {{ticket|9484}}
 +
* Fix deleting expired recordings in the status screen (and selection placement) {{gitcommit|9649c3c}} - fixed {{ticket|8787}}, {{ticket|9286}}
  
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
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* Add "DEBUGOSD" keybinding, for a new playback debugging OSD window - unbound by default {{gitcommit|fce407c}}
 
* Add "DEBUGOSD" keybinding, for a new playback debugging OSD window - unbound by default {{gitcommit|fce407c}}
 
* Add "EXITPROMPT" - replacement for "Confirm Exit" setting {{gitcommit|6e203ec}}
 
* Add "EXITPROMPT" - replacement for "Confirm Exit" setting {{gitcommit|6e203ec}}
 +
* Allow users to reset all keys to defaults via MythControls settings {{gitcommit|28a42f2}}
 +
* Add "RESETALLKEYS" - jump point which can be leveraged to reset all keybindings to default {{gitcommit|28a42f2}}
 +
* Add "RUNRANDOMSLIDESHOW" - Jump point to start random slideshow {{gitcommit|35b8a53}} - refs {{ticket|9530}}
  
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
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* Add support for SSA/ASS subtitles ({{gitcommit|4b48823}}, {{gitcommit|a0b999d}}, {{gitcommit|fa52b41}}, {{gitcommit|6db2c5e}}, {{gitcommit|bfeabee}}) - ref. {{ticket|9294}}
 
* Add support for SSA/ASS subtitles ({{gitcommit|4b48823}}, {{gitcommit|a0b999d}}, {{gitcommit|fa52b41}}, {{gitcommit|6db2c5e}}, {{gitcommit|bfeabee}}) - ref. {{ticket|9294}}
 
* Add support for BBCi MHEG streams (i.e., sports multiscreen) {{gitcommit|4d5e6ca}} - refs. {{ticket|9867}}
 
* Add support for BBCi MHEG streams (i.e., sports multiscreen) {{gitcommit|4d5e6ca}} - refs. {{ticket|9867}}
 +
* Add support for recording artwork in the OSD (i.e. fanart, banner, coverart, and screenshots) {{gitcommit|6216029}}
  
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
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* Don't allow slave mythbackends to upgrade database {{gitcommit|889f533}}
 
* Don't allow slave mythbackends to upgrade database {{gitcommit|889f533}}
 
* Add additional details to the backend http status page {{gitcommit|5545696}}
 
* Add additional details to the backend http status page {{gitcommit|5545696}}
 +
* Do not allow EIT to prevent backend shutdown through last minute reschedules {{gitcommit|de0d29c}} - refs {{ticket|3597}}
  
  
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* Add a "First Time Setup" wizard (staged, but currently disabled) {{gitcommit|30a26a7}}
 
* Add a "First Time Setup" wizard (staged, but currently disabled) {{gitcommit|30a26a7}}
 
** Video Setup Wizard - stage automatic downloading of sample files from services.mythtv.org {{gitcommit|4b86ba0}}
 
** Video Setup Wizard - stage automatic downloading of sample files from services.mythtv.org {{gitcommit|4b86ba0}}
** Implement new "Hardware Profiler" as part of the setup wizard {{gitcommit|0f9ab3c}}
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** Implement new "Hardware Profiler" (aka - smolt) as part of the setup wizard {{gitcommit|0f9ab3c}}
 
* Add a web based backend setup solution (to replace mythtv-setup) ({{gitcommit|fb6ed342}}, {{gitcommit|22f715f6}}, {{gitcommit|68524ad}}, {{gitcommit|c8758ab}}, {{gitcommit|473a4e9}}, {{gitcommit|8714350}}, and many more)- ref {{ticket|8262}}
 
* Add a web based backend setup solution (to replace mythtv-setup) ({{gitcommit|fb6ed342}}, {{gitcommit|22f715f6}}, {{gitcommit|68524ad}}, {{gitcommit|c8758ab}}, {{gitcommit|473a4e9}}, {{gitcommit|8714350}}, and many more)- ref {{ticket|8262}}
 
* Remove "MythFillPeriod" setting - should be determined by mythtv/data providers and not the end users {{gitcommit|b8b65c2}}
 
* Remove "MythFillPeriod" setting - should be determined by mythtv/data providers and not the end users {{gitcommit|b8b65c2}}
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* Add volume to LCD during TV/Video playback {{gitcommit|9988844}} - refs. {{ticket|9393}}
 
* Add volume to LCD during TV/Video playback {{gitcommit|9988844}} - refs. {{ticket|9393}}
 
* Add current playing time on LCD displays with 4 rows or more {{gitcommit|5c54c54}} - refs. {{ticket|9391}}
 
* Add current playing time on LCD displays with 4 rows or more {{gitcommit|5c54c54}} - refs. {{ticket|9391}}
* Add an opt-in "Hardware Profiler" - sends anonymous hardware and system data back to the MythTV project for support and feature set development strategies
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* Add an opt-in "Hardware Profiler" (aka smolt) - sends anonymous hardware and system data back to the MythTV project for support and feature set development strategies
 
* Enable visualization support for non-MythMusic sources, such as audio-only playback ({{gitcommit|0affac2}}, {{gitcommit|a2c424c}})
 
* Enable visualization support for non-MythMusic sources, such as audio-only playback ({{gitcommit|0affac2}}, {{gitcommit|a2c424c}})
 
* Add 2 new visualizations {{gitcommit|cc80dac}}
 
* Add 2 new visualizations {{gitcommit|cc80dac}}
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* Rewrite logging and debugging output
 
* Rewrite logging and debugging output
 
** Add support for setting log levels {{gitcommit|a76e380}}
 
** Add support for setting log levels {{gitcommit|a76e380}}
 +
* Enable automatic reconnection for MySQL connections {{gitcommit|dd2d7a1}} - refs {{ticket|9704}}, {{ticket|9773}}, {{ticket|9792}}
  
  
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* Add a MEDIA menu item type to the main menus {{gitcommit|d4a4aa3}}
 
* Add a MEDIA menu item type to the main menus {{gitcommit|d4a4aa3}}
 
* MythUIWebBrowser: Add a MythWebView::createWindow() function - keeps pages happy the insist on opening new pages {{gitcommit|acdc365}}
 
* MythUIWebBrowser: Add a MythWebView::createWindow() function - keeps pages happy the insist on opening new pages {{gitcommit|acdc365}}
 +
* Add support for recording artwork in the OSD (i.e. fanart, banner, coverart, and screenshots) {{gitcommit|6216029}}
  
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
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* Removed tags/attributes as of .25:
 
* Removed tags/attributes as of .25:
 
** Remove last remaining support of deprecated "gradient" imagetype - superceeded in favor of shape+gradient {{changeset|27176}}
 
** Remove last remaining support of deprecated "gradient" imagetype - superceeded in favor of shape+gradient {{changeset|27176}}
 +
* Allow relative offsets within an <area> {{gitcommit|5077086}}
 +
** see commit log for details
  
  
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== [[MythControls]] ==
 
== [[MythControls]] ==
 +
* Allow users to reset all keys to defaults {{gitcommit|28a42f2}}
  
  
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* Add "Ken Burns" style slideshow effect {{changeset|27309}} - {{ticket|5176}}
 
* Add "Ken Burns" style slideshow effect {{changeset|27309}} - {{ticket|5176}}
 
* ''Add a setting which enables MythGallery to load automatically if media containing pictures is detected (defaults to off) {{gitcommit|80d9234}}''
 
* ''Add a setting which enables MythGallery to load automatically if media containing pictures is detected (defaults to off) {{gitcommit|80d9234}}''
 +
* Add keybinding RUNRANDOMSLIDESHOW - Jump point to start random slideshow {{gitcommit|35b8a53}} - refs {{ticket|9530}}
  
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
 
===== Bug Fixes =====
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===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
* Don't set picture size to screen size, let OpenGL do the scaling - enables better quality zooming and faster display {{changeset|27312}} - {{ticket|8891}}
 
* Don't set picture size to screen size, let OpenGL do the scaling - enables better quality zooming and faster display {{changeset|27312}} - {{ticket|8891}}
* Make mythgallery's thumb generator not auto-detect, only generate on registered extensions to increase speed {{gitcommit|d1ab62d}} - refs. {{ticket|9523}}
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<!-- * Make mythgallery's thumb generator not auto-detect, only generate on registered extensions to increase speed {{gitcommit|d1ab62d}} - refs. {{ticket|9523}} -->
 
* Extend the maximum transition times {{gitcommit|3fbaa5e}}
 
* Extend the maximum transition times {{gitcommit|3fbaa5e}}
 +
* Allow symlinked directories {{gitcommit|bedc054}} - refs {{ticket|9509}}
  
  
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** Add ability to search for artist image
 
** Add ability to search for artist image
 
** Add ability to search for genre icons (via itunesgenres group on flickr)
 
** Add ability to search for genre icons (via itunesgenres group on flickr)
 +
* Relax the write permissions on directories created by the ripper {{gitcommit|63bd364}} - refs {{ticket|9112}}
 +
* Check the audio output was opened without error before using it {{gitcommit|750bdf1}} - refs {{ticket|9403}}
  
  
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** blip.tv
 
** blip.tv
 
* Allow backend downloader to download saveable files ({{gitcommit|7fe2713}}, {{gitcommit|c3bc396}})
 
* Allow backend downloader to download saveable files ({{gitcommit|7fe2713}}, {{gitcommit|c3bc396}})
 +
* Stream videos directly to the internal player when possible {{gitcommit|20ef8b2}}
  
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
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*'' Correct Blip.tv API URL {{gitcommit|d7550bf}} - fixed {{ticket|9724}}''
 
*'' Correct Blip.tv API URL {{gitcommit|d7550bf}} - fixed {{ticket|9724}}''
 
* Update iPlayer grabber for BBC site changes {{gitcommit|6eaa653}}
 
* Update iPlayer grabber for BBC site changes {{gitcommit|6eaa653}}
 +
* Deal with incomplete PMT streams in BBC iPlayer IPTV {{gitcommit|c11ee69}} - fixed {{ticket|9926}}
  
  
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===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
===== Changes/Improvements/Other =====
 
* Allow some clients to find the upnp server by adding missing namespace to device description xml {{gitcommit|41afcb2}}
 
* Allow some clients to find the upnp server by adding missing namespace to device description xml {{gitcommit|41afcb2}}
 +
* Allow Sony Blu-Ray players to properly find and play videos {{gitcommit|117b1b0}} - refs {{ticket|9424}}
 +
* Prevent UPnP detection from using backends of a different version (prevents undesired upgrades and other issues) {{gitcommit|e2295b3}} - refs {{ticket|9174}}
  
  
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* Add IPv6 support to the Python Bindings {{gitcommit|cd23715}}
 
* Add IPv6 support to the Python Bindings {{gitcommit|cd23715}}
 
* Remove legacy calls from MythDB, Frontend, and Grabber deprecated in 0.24 {{gitcommit|412b2bf}}
 
* Remove legacy calls from MythDB, Frontend, and Grabber deprecated in 0.24 {{gitcommit|412b2bf}}
 +
* Fix tzinfo handling in custom Python datetime class {{gitcommit|a606e97}} - fixed {{ticket|9937}}
  
  
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** --rebuild will queue jobs to rebuild the seektables
 
** --rebuild will queue jobs to rebuild the seektables
 
* Add --dry-run option {{gitcommit|1cfa959}}
 
* Add --dry-run option {{gitcommit|1cfa959}}
 +
* Attempt fallback to "mythtv://" if a local path cannot be found in mythcommflag --video {{gitcommit|546af2f}} - refs {{ticket|9435}}
  
 
== [[mythfilldatabase]] ==
 
== [[mythfilldatabase]] ==

Revision as of 19:56, 21 November 2011

Contents

Important.png Note: Please note that the following reflects changes for a future release of MythTV currently in development and not recommended for production use. The current release is 34.0.


Important 0.25 Dates
Event Date Changeset
Development Started 10/19/2010 [de679e4]
RC 1 Released TBD TBD
RC 2 Released TBD TBD
Final Release TBD TBD


Important.png Note: This page is actively updated, edited, and modified during the current development cycle (expected to become the "0.25" release). Expect it to change drastically, on a frequent basis, up until the next official release. Items may be added, changed, and removed to accurately reflect anticipated functionality and features leading up to the release date.

Below is an overview of the changes currently in unstable/development code, which will become a future release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, may have been backported to the 0.24-fixes branch. This is a fairly comprehensive list of significant or noticeable changes that impact the user experience in some way. For every change listed on this changelog, there are many times more changes not listed related to the core framework and inner workings of the software which allow MythTV to do what it does - in other words, what is listed is just the tip of the iceberg.



 

Key New Features

  • Enable capable MythNetvision sources to be controlled via remote(lirc) instead of keyboard/mouse
  • MythMessage, a user messaging interface (replacement for mythtvosd)
  • Web based backend setup utility (replacement for mythtv-setup)
  • HTTP control capabilities for MythFrontend (Currently a Proof of Concept)
  • Support E-AC3, TrueHD and DTS-HD digital passthrough
  • Hardware profiler to help developers understand the user's hardware landscape and statistics (opt-in)
  • DirectX Video Acceleration 2 (DXVA2) on Windows (alpha support)
  • New, robust Microsoft Windows build script
  • Add IPv6 support to mythbackend and mythfrontend
  • Stage UPnP client capabilities within mythfrontend - (* disabled while UI is still in development)
  • Add VAAPI support
  • Creation of MythTV Services API

Major Changes

  • Removed XvMC Support
  • Removed libmpeg2 support for video playback
  • Deprecation/Replacement of MythXML in favor of new Services API
  • Re-write of logging system (see Logging)
  • MythVideo is now part of core MythTV and no longer a seperate plugin
  • Significantly enhanced and integrated metadata lookup capabilities for videos and recordings
  • Removed jamu - superseded by MythMetadataLookup
  • Integrate and leverage internal player in MythNetvision when possible

Prerequisite Changes

Minimum version changes
  • Python - Require Python v2.6 or higher (remove support for v2.5)
  • Taglib - Minimum version is now 1.6 or higher
  • Qt - Minimum version is now 4.6.0
Added support libraries/prerequisites
  • Sox - required for nuvexport
  • libxml2 - optional for blu-ray disc metadata parsing (>= v2.6)
  • libudf - optional for detection of DVD and Blu-ray discs without mounting (libudf is also a subcomponent of libcdio)
  • libass - optional for ASS/SSA subtitle support (>= v0.9.10)
  • libfftw3 - optional for new visualization support
    • existing libfftw3 support in configure appears to be a hangover from previous code, it isn't actually used for anything else
Removed support libraries/prerequisites

Special Notices & Instructions

  • Any third-party applications leveraging MythXML will need to write compatibility with the new API framework

Wikipage.png Items in italics are known to have been backported to 0.24-fixes

MythTV

mythfrontend

New Features
Bug Fixes
  • Fix segfault caused when exiting the Recording Profile settings screen [27191] - fixes #9104
  • Fix inaccurate file size on the program details screen [27343]
  • Clear captions when entering the cutlist editor [27351] - fixed #9206
  • Fix setting the display refresh rate in live tv [62ffcd3]
  • Fix program finder to not show programs on invisible channels [6128e72] - Fixed #9381
  • Fix priority textareas not being updated when priority is increased on a list entry [746ec9e] - Fixed #9512
  • Fixes a few bugs in channel browse mode [d14b660] - fixed #6948, ref. #8211
  • Fix remote (mythweb) screenshots ([204f818], [6be90d3])
  • Fix the setting to restore the same position in browser, gallery and tree views for browsing videos [b03a6b6] - Fixed #7425
  • Send PLAY_UNPAUSE when play is hit during pause [cb38a52] - fixed #9484
  • Fix deleting expired recordings in the status screen (and selection placement) [9649c3c] - fixed #8787, #9286
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • When exiting the cut list editor, don't ask to save if no changes were made [27197]
  • Theme Chooser: Always show downloadable themes, cache downloaded theme list, and give enhanced feedback when downloading/loading a theme [4bc8f6f]
  • Exit Watch Recordings if user aborts the initial Rec Group popup [e866f1c] - Fixed #9210
  • Show notification message for a new cut in recording editor [0a17efa]
  • Allow deleting "un-cut" areas in recording editor [a51c237]
  • Add support for the DELETE action to CustomEdit, allows deletion of example clauses [a1c9456]
  • Prevent a crash if a second instance of MythFrontend is allowed to run [aba1fb0]
  • Improved handling of 'Show the Program Guide when Start Live TV' [341efdf]
  • When shutting down or rebooting keep trying alternate methods if the first ones fail [4138b32] - fixed #9102
  • Change the default value for Re-record watched setting to disabled (on new installs only) [a50a337]
  • Allow near-end bookmarks for in-progress recordings [624c23c]
  • Allow users to edit title, subtitle, and description in Watch Recordings (if supported by the theme) [e8ca189]
  • Fix, refactor, cleanup and simplify taking screenshots [fa9f32b]
    • Remove ScreenShot Jumpoint and promote TV Playback SCREENSHOT action as a Global Action
    • See commit for more details
  • Enable playback of streamed http:// files in addition to mythtv:// files [1b1d0a9] - ref. #9722
    • Seeking is currently disabled due to issues [33be4fc]
  • Update the disk free bar in watch recordings more frequently ([4426dd6], [62d7084]) - ref. #9771
  • Make the default video zoom 'Off' [cb5cfea]
  • Added Settings:
    • Video Settings: Blu-Ray Mountpoint - for setting where blu-ray discs get mounted [27287]
    • Music Settings: Allow Tag Writing - enable playcount and ratings to be written to and read from ID3 tags [27319]
    • Video Settings: Blu-Ray Region Setting - needed to playback certain blu-ray movies [27382]
    • Grabber Settings: Adds a central configuration location to choose metadata sources [75c7dee]
    • Gallery Settings: Auto-Run - starts MythGallery if media containing pictures is detected (defaults to off) [80d9234]
  • Removed Settings:
    • Video Settings: VCD Player - Removed ability to set external play for VCDs [27287]
    • Video Settings: VCD Drive - No longer needed [27287]
    • Enable Picture Controls - Picture controls are now always enabled [27348]
    • LIRC Keypress Application - irexec can basically do this without MythTV being the middle man [27374]
    • Skip Blank Frames After Commercials - replaced with a sensible default of half of the blank frames before/after a commercial break [27389]
    • Delete DVD Bookmarks after x days - If you don't want a bookmark to exist any more, then just unset the bookmark [bf70617]
    • UI Settings: Theme Painter - Auto-dectect UI painter [fb45eb9]
    • EPG: Display Genre Colors - Now theme controlled [142682b]
    • Confirm Exit - Replaced with new action/keybinding EXITPROMPT [6e203ec]


Key Bindings, Jump Points, and Input Devices

New Features
  • Add a "TV Frontend:VIEWSCHEDULED" keybinding - shows upcoming episodes which match a recording rule, instead of a show title [9ec36ea]
  • Add a new "Search" keybinding (defaulted to Ctrl+S) - access the search dialog in a buttonlist while it has focus [a796d8b]
  • Add 2 new jump points useful for theme/ui development - unbound by default [7c0a238]
    • Toggle Show Widget Borders
    • Toggle Show Widget Names
  • Add "TOGGLEVISUALTISATION" keybinding - unbound by default [8fe7f45]
  • Add "DEBUGOSD" keybinding, for a new playback debugging OSD window - unbound by default [fce407c]
  • Add "EXITPROMPT" - replacement for "Confirm Exit" setting [6e203ec]
  • Allow users to reset all keys to defaults via MythControls settings [28a42f2]
  • Add "RESETALLKEYS" - jump point which can be leveraged to reset all keybindings to default [28a42f2]
  • Add "RUNRANDOMSLIDESHOW" - Jump point to start random slideshow [35b8a53] - refs #9530
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Remove "LIRC Keypress Application" setting and functionality [27374]
  • Adds UNDO (default Ctrl-Z) and REDO (default Ctrl-Y) key bindings to the Global context (moved from TV Editing context) [f354621] - refs. #8901


Guide Data, EIT, Program Info, and Media Metadata

New Features
  • Adds a central configuration location to choose metadata sources - Artwork and Datasources Windows [75c7dee]
  • Parse XBMC-style NFO files [581175a]
  • Support import of Myth-format metadata from an external file [52613a0]
    • Looks for a file named the same as the video file, with a .mxml extension
  • Add XML export methods (not implemented in UI yet) {{gitcommit|3d603ab))
  • Add support for Season, Episode, and Inetref values to recordings [a41e965]
  • Allow lookups using recording rules in the schedule editor ([da8c889], [444cfe9])
  • Add MythMetadataLookup program [913f0d8]
    • See section below for more details
  • Look up extra metadata on recording start [89b6416]
  • Allow picking artwork for individual seasons on recordings ([a1be7d4], [a683afc])
  • Add a Metadata Lookup API Service [a0c8225]
Bug Fixes
  • Fix a memory leak in the EIT scanner [e137704] - Fixed #9306
  • Fix null characters appearing in EIT data which would cause Live TV to fail and recordings to dissapear [43bef4e] - fixed #8707
  • Fix EIT parsing on DVB encrypted channels [464e261] - fixed #9336
  • Fix lookup of movie titles that begin with a "." at TMDB [1c34d57]
Changes/Improvements/Other


Audio

New Features
  • Enable audio sync offsets to be stored and persisted across all videos per frontend [27148] - Ref. #4262
  • Always use MythTV's downmixer in place of ffmpeg's on hardware that has SSE3 support - fixes low volume on 5.1 AC3 streams on a stereo system [27375] - fixed #6569
  • Add an Audio Channel Test feature ([00cd344], [21cfaf6], [e44b025])
  • Add E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus), DTS-HD Hi-Res, DTS-HD MA and TrueHD bitstream (aka passthrough) support over HDMI ([7531972], [c1cf68b], [649fa85])
  • New audio setup screen, including test capabilities [b2a86a2]
Bug Fixes
  • Only pass-through if we support the number of channels, otherwise downmix - logic was reversed [27225]
  • Fix several places where memory corruption could occur in non-typical scenarios [27368]
  • Fix logic error that forced to have audio advanced checked to get 7.1 LPCM ([98a1969], [f1b4edc])
  • Fix timestamps and silence during pause exhibiting problems under certain conditions [fcd0f4f]
  • Fix ALSA buffer allocation [04c15e1]
  • Fix potential deadlocks resulting in "Waited 100ms for video buffers" [3881415]
  • Fix digital passthrough on Mac CoreAudio [77a852d]
  • Disable passthrough only if using the software volume controller [9499674] - fixed #9688
  • Pause the audio when the video is lagging [afe5669]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Change the behaviour of overriding the digital passthrough device - allows a different audio device between plain stereo/lpcm and digital passthrough [27216]
  • Change the way we determine and set the passthrough device and differentiate between 'auto' and the 'default' device - 'auto' is the default audio device but with extra settings for digital passthrough, 'default' is the same device as the main one. [27306]
  • Improve IEC mode - helps fix issues with HDMI passthrough [27307]
  • Change how multi-channel LPCM is configured and referenced in settings [27318]
  • Always re-encode to best supported format [df80fc5]
  • Improve timestamp calculation leading to better A/V Sync (ALSA and Pulse only so far) [5eac843]
  • Automatically select the Default audio track if the container supports it [486d2c5] - refs. #8900
  • Properly disable audio processing when the NULL audio device is used [76b4eec] - fixed #8816
  • Disable passthrough if Audio48kOverride is set and audio stream is != 48kHz [de55ad7]
  • Re-write of AC3 Encoder [de0c5fa]
  • Avoid pausing audio when dropping video frames due to timestretch [98d3990]
  • Re-write of CoreAudio driver support (Mac OS X) [267cada]
    • Selectable device now in setup
    • Fixes accelerated playback in AC3 passthrough - fixed #5552
    • Properly set channel layout, under most circumstances, you shouldn't have to use Audio Midi Setup utilities
    • Still a work in progress and it is recommended to continue to keep using the default output device for now


Video Playback

New Features
  • Add overall studio levels filter (however, the new one currently only works with VDPAU playback) ([27322], [27314], [27316])
    • Removes and replaces the vdpaustudio filter
    • Add keybinding to toggle on/off during playback (not bound by default)
    • Can be enabled, when available, via OSD as well
  • Add overall VideoColourSpace class, replacing output-specific classes ([27340], [27346], [27348]
    • Can be applied across multiple video output classes (VDPAU, OpenGL, etc)
    • Picture controls will be permanently enabled for all output classes
  • Add initial GLSL v1.0 video rendering support ([c0d8c22], [8cb1707], [95717ff], [3299535], [f18c31f], and many more)
  • Add initial OpenGL ES 2.0 support ([287de3d])
  • Implement "smooth sync" which provides predictive frames drops when time stretch needs to playback faster than the displays refesh rate, reducing jerky playback ([4906522], [8fd44c8], [2fe9124], [956b4f2], [3b10231]
  • Add 2 new video fill modes - Vertical Fill (crop off sides) and Horizontal fill (crop off top) [53bc658] - ref. #9035
  • Add a new Playback Debugging OSD window ([fce407c], [914588b])
    • Accessible via a keybinding to new DEBUGOSD action or the OSD menu [5aa9f06]
    • Add CPU utilisation monitoring (linux only) {{gitcommit|
  • Add VAAPI support ([c4bc3e9], [8b0883e]) - ref. #8593
    • See commit log for details and limitations
Bug Fixes
  • Fix (and improve) current position and duration detection and display [27326] - Fix #9109
  • Fix FFWD/REW response time repositioning [27356]
  • Fix tilted video when using odd geometries and the Xlib 'fallback' video renderer [27392] - Fixed #9139
  • Fix setting the display refresh rate in live tv [3396a46]
  • Fix seeking after LiveTV transitions [3716894] - refs. #9023
  • Force reload of context and stream properties when switching between LiveTV segments [13722d7] - Fixed #9542
  • Fix BBC frame detection [c9c2545] - Fixed #9410
  • Fix duration/position information for MHEG and audio only playback [4e815b0], [98286fe] - Fixed #9570
  • Fix lockup when keys are pressed while playback is starting [5ec80d8]
  • Use case insensitive url and extension checking - fixes playback of files with upper case file extensions [0e652e2] - fixed #9844
  • Fix blank screen in Live TV in certain circumstances while using OpenGL playback [3363c91] - fixed #9770
  • Fix long delay in loading certain ISOs and speed-up mythtv:// streaming [5db2d56] - fixed #9864
  • Fix video inversion with OpenGL playback [0d09c7a] - fixed #9276
  • Fix an issue with blank video for VDPAU and OpenGL when using live tv [850ae1e]
  • Ensure deinterlacing works after aspect changes in OpenGL [68ab958]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Simplify the OpenGL linear blend and kernel deinterlacers, increasing performance and potential for better results [27349]
  • Speed up resumption of playback after seeking (regression from 0.23) - [27372]
  • Remove XvMC support ([252f801], [5e5908b])
  • Remove libmpeg2 decoder from playback options (library still used within mythtranscode) [ebf9778]
  • Removes CPU++, CPU+, and CPU-- playback profile groups [4cd8186]
    • Systems set to use any of these profiles groups are changed to use the default group, "Normal"
    • Changes users' custom profiles to replace XvMC and libmpeg2 decoders with standard (ffmpeg) and XvMC video renderer with Xv (xv-blit) and ia44blend OSD renderer with softblend.
    • Set default on new setups to "Normal"
  • Fix certain playback issues and incorrect durations by generating duration and bitrate based off of the video stream due to an ffmpeg change [4eba49f]
  • Refactor frame rate handling [dcdce27]
  • Use the livetv ringbuffer timeout when switching channel/program (Default is 2 seconds) [4e8d935]
  • Skip past the initial cut area when starting playback [4859032] - Fixed #9538
  • Temporarily Disable Picture-in-Picture (PIP) and Picture-by-Picture (PBP) [27e125f]
  • Construct the Live TV object immediately - results in a significant speed-up in starting Live TV [48bf9de]
  • Construct the TV (non-liveobject immediately [6834dba]
  • Store calculated duration in the db [5366399]
  • Faster pausing when switching programs in live tv [e45da57] - refs. #9511, #9546
  • Simplify timestamp selection code which fixes AV-sync for AVI video [eb3c98c]
  • Live TV: Fix video embedding when starting live tv ([91e5d35], [c96e65c]) - refs. #9573
  • Fix embedded playback when using OpenGL for main UI [88023ee]
  • Slightly smoother playback startup by discarding initial audio packets prior to video time code and start paused and unpause only when ready ([0b1f9d2], [caf431c]) - ref. #9120
  • Support recent CrystalHD library versions [a640aaa] - ref #9608
  • Fix video buffering code to properly play high reference frame videos [f8c108e]
  • VDPAU: Dynamically optimise video buffer size [5e04d57]
  • Re-enable picture-in-picture (PIP) and picture-by-picture (PBP) [c65b533] - ref. #9543
  • Better synchronization of aspect ratio changes [857d804]


Disc Playback (DVD, Blu-Ray, etc) and Media Detection

New Features
  • Blu-Ray: Add future support for mouse clicks (not yet utilized) ([1f17e98], [1b6ea77])
  • Blu-Ray: Add metadata parsing for disc library metadata (when available) - requires libxml2 ([00df584], [ce45745])
  • Blu-Ray: Add OSD menu support (HDMV only) ([5479b3a], [5707d26], [ed2ba06])
  • Blu-Ray: Initial still frame support [98335e9]
  • Blu-Ray: Add a playback loading progress bar [987bf8d]
  • Enable the detection of a DVD & Bluray discs by reading the UDF format data direct from the drive without mounting using libudf [67674bf]
  • Blu-Ray: Store current playback location when entering top menu [4ec47f8]
Bug Fixes
  • DVD: Fix pause state handling when moving away from a still frame [979def4] - fixed #9404
  • DVD: Fix a deadlock condition in certain conditions (i.e., when using network control during a still frame) [fd5e33a] - fixed #9780
  • DVD: Bump up the minimum title length for initialization - fixes playback on DVDs with long still frames [5a2771d] - fixed #9170
  • DVD: Use case insensitive extension checks - fixes playback of .ISO files where the extension was upper case and wouldn't play over storage groups [0e652e2] - fixed #9844
  • DVD: Fix DVD menu button height and positioning ([2f899ff], [801aebf], [2f52fae], [005276f]) - ref. #9860
  • DVD: Fix crash when displaying DVD menu buttons in certain circumstances ([d172a81], [39e2fff]) - fixed #9677
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Unify DVD and Blu-Ray playback into a single menu item - "Play Optical Disc" [27287]
  • Blu-Ray: Added ability to set a Blu-Ray region [27382]
  • DVD: Improve DVD playback - dramatically improve startup playback performance, start-up time, and resolve issues via remote storage groups ([70bcc33], [8f103c6], [ec474d0]) - ref. #9143
  • DVD: Resync dvdnav and dvdread to upstream versions 1216-1226 [bfdbc77] - fixed #9828


OSD, EPG, MHEG, CC, and Subtitles

New Features
Bug Fixes
  • Teletext decoding and locking fixes (Fixes crash in cutlist editor under certain circumstances) ([27213], [27256], [27381]) - fixes (#9218, #9234)
  • Left justify CC-608 captions to fix jitter [9bfe562] - fixed #9030
  • Fix displaying external text subtitles under a rare situation [e139b29]
  • Update the subtitle font if the fontstretch has changed ([77d419b], [399c1bc]) - Fixed #9164
  • Display the Auto commercial skip option for in-progress recordings in the OSD menu [5d94418] - fixed #9489
  • Ensure teletext images are properly cleared when using XVideo [9980fcf]
  • CEA-708: Fix spontaneous resets [eebd67a] - fixed #9577
  • CEA-708: Fix display of extended characters [956154c] - fixed #9582
  • Fix EIA-608 caption color in certain circumstances [85a5266]
  • Fix OSD and subtitle layer ordering [be25039] - ref. #9822
  • DVB Subtitles: Fix display of subs with no display segment [d27bedf] - ref. #9373
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • If paused, unpause playback when clearing the Delete Recording OSD dialog [27254] - fixes #9228
  • Improved teletext display for font stretching, double height text, and better widescreen fill support [27367] - fixed #9271
  • Refactor teletext to more-closely match the design of other caption/subtitle code - eliminates locking problems and improves responsiveness [27381] - fixed #9271
  • Make text outlining consistent across external, embedded, and CC-608 captions [b674e52]
  • CEA 708 Captions: Ensure text updates are shown as expected and not when a line is completed [f1bc0b5] - fixed #9569
  • Create an Advanced menu option in the OSD Video menu [f20739a]
  • Disable the tuning OSD display when changing channel via a MythEvent (cleaner MHEG experience) [226d272] - refs. #9867


Network Control

New Features
Bug Fixes


mythbackend

New Features
  • Add new storage group weighting mechanism - Disk % Free [27190]
  • Add a video scanning thread and a new myth protocol command, SCAN_VIDEOS, which will trigger a scan of all video folders. Available via protocol command or mythbackend --scanvideos ([27308], [86003a4])
  • Allow file writes to new subdirectories in remote Storage Groups [8fdfa75]
  • Add IPv6 support to mythbackend [8bf5157]
  • Add mythbackend --setloglevel - changes log level of a running backend [4c43ec7]
Bug Fixes
  • Fix delete and allow-rerecord when AutoExpireInsteadOfDelete is enabled [0cab1df] - fixes #9360
  • Fix playback with filenames that start with "#" [e801178] - fixed #9655
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Keep 10 days of old program listings to match the 10 days of recording history [b24b8bd]
  • Remove the, now redundant, UPnP Video scanner [e3b63db] - ref #8801
  • Don't allow slave mythbackends to upgrade database [889f533]
  • Add additional details to the backend http status page [5545696]
  • Do not allow EIT to prevent backend shutdown through last minute reschedules [de0d29c] - refs #3597


Scanning and Tuner/Recorder Support

Channel Scanner

  • Add Italian frequencies to channel scanner [2981c13] - refs. #3702, #9768
  • Improve DVB encryption detection to help prevent channels from being falsely marked as encrypted [19a2cc7] - ref. #8645
  • Try harder to generate unique callsigns [9bb5980]
  • Improve tuning timer resets - prevents missing some muxes [e7f430a]

DVB ASI

HDHomeRun

IPTV Recorder

  • Fix issues when PAT/PMT table has too large of a payload [9b22460] - fixed #9451

FireWire

  • Add a few DCX-3200 vendor and model IDs ([284bf99], [e6c7e60], [0ac73fb]) - ref. #9795
  • Add a default/generic STB option for Motorola boxes which should allow for new Motorola STBs to be used without code changes [0ac73fb]

DiSEqC

  • Fix Azimuth calculations for rotors in line with online reference [5a01fda] - fixed #8459

Misc

  • Fix channel switching with cx18 drivers [9b22460] - fixed #9191
  • Fix pause status locking in certain recorders [9b22460]
  • Refactor all recorders to eliminate duplicate code and inefficiencies [9b22460]
    • See commit for more details
  • Better handle display of cards numbered higher than 9 [95b4d92]


Scheduler

New Features
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Slightly improve handling of failed recordings so future showings can be rescheduled [38f8fb1]
  • Improved the detection and handling of missed recordings [543d783]
  • More aggressively move recordings to resolve conflicts [53cf459]


Setup / mythtv-setup

New Features
  • Add --logfile support to mythtv-setup [27403] - Applied #6945
  • Add a "First Time Setup" wizard (staged, but currently disabled) [30a26a7]
    • Video Setup Wizard - stage automatic downloading of sample files from services.mythtv.org [4b86ba0]
    • Implement new "Hardware Profiler" (aka - smolt) as part of the setup wizard [0f9ab3c]
  • Add a web based backend setup solution (to replace mythtv-setup) ([fb6ed342], [22f715f6], [68524ad], [c8758ab], [473a4e9], [8714350], and many more)- ref #8262
  • Remove "MythFillPeriod" setting - should be determined by mythtv/data providers and not the end users [b8b65c2]
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Misc

New Features
  • Add a new StreamingRingBuffer class which can handle network file transfers over multiple protocols (such as HTTP, RTP, UDP, etc.) [27415] - ref. #9722
  • Build ffmpeg as mythffmpeg and install, allowing nuvexport to utilize a standardized version of ffmpeg [8c6de46]
  • Add mythffplay to the build [1f47a54]
  • Add mythffmpeg build options to configure script (see commit for more details) [2434f7c]
  • MythEvent: Add a new event type to signal playback startup progress [865dd6c]
  • Add volume to LCD during TV/Video playback [9988844] - refs. #9393
  • Add current playing time on LCD displays with 4 rows or more [5c54c54] - refs. #9391
  • Add an opt-in "Hardware Profiler" (aka smolt) - sends anonymous hardware and system data back to the MythTV project for support and feature set development strategies
  • Enable visualization support for non-MythMusic sources, such as audio-only playback ([0affac2], [a2c424c])
  • Add 2 new visualizations [cc80dac]
    • See commit log for additional details
    • Requires libfftw3 (--enable-libfftw3 in configure script)
    • Add "TOGGLEVISUALTISATION" keybinding - unbound by default
  • Support channel icons in storage groups [caee2ba]
  • Have the --logpath propagate when launching sub-calls to applications like mythpreviewgen, mythcommflag, mythfilldatabase, etc. [1edcab8]
Bug Fixes
  • Fix black/glitched recording previews by fixing in-recording seektables for MPEG2-TS/PS [27338] - refs. #9256
  • Fix main menu refreshing properly on LCD [22e48c4] - fixed #9392
  • Fix history handling of overridden find recordings [f53bb2b]
  • Fix TFW IOBOUND errors in certain conditions [9b22460]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Optimize file writing and reading to better interact with modern VM and disk I/O schedulers ([27257], [27285]) - ref. #9150
  • Refactor RingBuffer classes [27413] - ref. #9287
  • Switch revision numbers in --version to reflect git in place of svn [ff27f87]
  • Enable symbol visibility by default [c5907af]
  • Remove channels no longer in use in US OTA broadcasts [2080ca3]
  • MythSystem Refactor/Rewrite [0f063f5]
  • Re-enable "--disable-x11" builds [8f6f7aa] - Closed #9477
  • Increase size of channel.xmltvid from 64 chars to 255 - some xmltvids were larger than 64 chars [ffbae3f]
  • Improved detection of streams with no video [e951aec]
  • Disable backup rotation on automatic backup [09dc0dc]
  • Improve DeviceReadBuffer to make it more efficient and quicker to respond [9b22460]
  • Allow MythTV to compile on newer Linux distro's that don't include V4L version 1 headers [893edf3] - ref. #9595
  • Leverage local playback of video files if found locally [f7d050b]
  • Bump min. required version of Qt to 4.6.0 [155138a]
  • Make the ringbuffer size dynamic [bff8594]
    • 4MB for local files (unchanged)
    • 8MB-16MB for network playback
    • 16MB-32MB for matroska files and files with unknown bitrates
  • Use DBUS to detect media insertion and removal - better experience across platforms and elevated permissions and/or system changes are no longer required [06a98ff] - ref. #9519
  • Rewrite logging and debugging output
    • Add support for setting log levels [a76e380]
  • Enable automatic reconnection for MySQL connections [dd2d7a1] - refs #9704, #9773, #9792


MythUI

New Features
  • Add initial support for multiple levels of OpenGL support ([27223], [27236])
  • Allow mapped text and images in the button tree widget [27266]
  • Allows a web page viewed in MythUIWebBrowser to control the music player [d51fd09]
  • Add the ability to change the message on an open MythUIBusyDialog [2c0bdcf]
  • Add the ability to set and reset the message on an open busy popup dialog [2c0bdcf]
  • Add an initial general purpose video widget [6fd3876]
  • Allow LoadInBackground to accept an optional message - If used, the message will set the contents of the busy dialog message [4cf6722]
  • Add an itemVisible() signal to MythUIButtonTree [fcd5054]
  • Add a generic search to button lists [a796d8b]
    • You access the search dialog using the new SEARCH (CTRL+S) keybinding while a buttonlist has the focus
  • Add a new method to MythGenericTree to calculate the present depth in the tree for a given node [31b500f]
  • Add handling for media events to mythui [2a01d50]
  • MythUIWebBrowser: allow unsupported content to be downloaded or played [c1aebb3]
  • Add a couple of jump points to show each widgets bounding rect and name - 'Toggle Show Widget Borders' and 'Toggle Show Widget Names' [7c0a238]
  • Add a MEDIA menu item type to the main menus [d4a4aa3]
  • MythUIWebBrowser: Add a MythWebView::createWindow() function - keeps pages happy the insist on opening new pages [acdc365]
  • Add support for recording artwork in the OSD (i.e. fanart, banner, coverart, and screenshots) [6216029]
Bug Fixes
  • Fix non-animated GIF reloading causing the frontend to abort [27302]
  • Fix the mouse cursor not re-appearing on movement in old UI screens such as MythMusic [27335]
  • Fix the keypress handling in MythUIButtonTree when using a grid layout in the buttonlist [b2b6633]
  • Fix the button tree widget not reacting to loosing focus properly [971df95]
  • Fix bug in buttontree which required right to be pressed twice to move deeper into the tree [2aeb872]
  • Fix clipping issues with the OpenGL painter [ce0ad7f]
  • Fix mouse usage in popups [afb8995] - fixed #9589
  • MythUIWebBrowser: Fix a problem with making the web page active [f84f268]
  • Allow "0" to be typed in a search dialog box [03cedf8] - fixed #9858
  • MythUIButtonTree: Fix an abort when scrolling [5ff3b8b]- ref. #9620
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Auto-hide the mouse cursor after 3 seconds of inactivity and default the "hide mouse cursor" setting to "false" ([27324], [27325])
  • Move the gesture debugging to VB_GUI instead of VB_IMPORTANT [27360]
  • Speedup mythfrontend startup and video playback startup by optimizing background painting in non-QT painters ([72976f3], [3679b7e]
  • Enhance <minsize> functionality ([8b7ac1e], [490d13b])
    • See commit logs for details
  • Allow a buttonlist item position to be specified - helps prevent a full list rebuild [c64efc1]
  • Allow <minsize> to be used with nested siblings [132dddd]
  • Removed tags/attributes as of .25:
    • Remove last remaining support of deprecated "gradient" imagetype - superceeded in favor of shape+gradient [27176]
  • Allow relative offsets within an <area> [5077086]
    • see commit log for details


Translations & Localization/Internationalization

New Features
  • Update the themestrings run.sh script to download the themes when generating themestrings for translation [5815fcb]
  • Add support for <il8n> tags in .qsp and .qjs files [d9c00bd]
  • Enable translation in mythbackend and new web based setup [ae4a014]
  • Add Italian frequencies to channel scanner [2981c13] - refs. #3702, #9768
Bug Fixes
  • Fix a few incorrect US English strings (used for translation) in MythWeb [bef5f44] - fixed #8936
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Reduce number of strings generated for plugin-specific strings within core themes [27172]
  • Added the following new translations:
    • Brazilian Portuguese - MythGame, MythMusic, and MythVideo [ed728ed]
    • Croation - Partial Mythfrontend [946ad5b] - ref. #9750
    • Chinese (Simplified) - Partial Mythfrontend [2fd50f1] - ref. #9779
  • Updated existing translations:
    • Finnish - MythWeb [27170]
    • Brazilian Portuguese - Mythfrontend ([b59d9a5], [ed728ed])
    • Russian - MythArchive, MythBrowser, MythGallery, MythMusic, MythNetvision, MythNews and MythWeather [bd1ceae] - ref. #9841


Themes

Default

  • Add a progress bar to videowindow for certain playback startup events [636542c]
  • Add new schedule filter editor UI [fec82bc]
  • Add debug window to default OSD [be09bef]

Default-Wide

  • Add a progress bar to videowindow for certain playback startup events [636542c]
  • MythBrowser: Add the favicon to the default wide page selector [3770096]
  • Add new schedule filter editor UI [fec82bc]
  • Add channel icon downloader screen [59f6605]

DVR Menu Theme

Arclight

Graphite

Metallurgy

Mythbuntu

  • Fix some overlapping buttons on the channel editor screen [1f6d53a] - Fixed #9516

MythCenter

  • Add a progress bar to videowindow for certain playback startup events [636542c]
  • Add new schedule filter editor UI [fec82bc]
  • Theme the 'Metadata Options' screen [eb2291d]

MythCenter-Wide

  • Make the message text in the busy dialog multi-line, fixes truncation [8739783]
  • Fix the wonky layout on a few screens and add some search popup positions and search fields ([382a964], [0867522])
  • Add a progress bar to videowindow for certain playback startup events [636542c]
  • Fix some overlapping text on the program guide, program lister, and program finder screens ([a43a6ae], [10f5b0b], [8689a20])
  • Add the theme chooser screen [58c1263]
  • Add new schedule filter editor UI [fec82bc]
  • Add channel icon downloader screen [59f6605]
  • Theme the 'Metadata Options' screen [e8866d1]

Slave

  • Add a new frontend slave menu them (without menus) - intended for frontends controlled remotely via network or http interface [2bd69f9]

Terra

Misc. Theme Development

New Features
  • Add code to notify the user when their them has an update available [ef2cef0]
  • Add the "Artwork and Data Sources" menu item to all the menu themes [60c431d]
  • Add the "System Event Handles" menu item to all the menu themes [c6179c6]
  • Add the "Setup Wizard" menu item to all the menu themes [2e8fe96]
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Add required player setting widget for Blu-Ray mountpoint and remove VCD related items to core and myththemes [27288]
  • Re-group the settings logically in the Setup Menu in defaultmenu theme [5bf8c24]


Ports

Mac OS X

New Features
Bug Fixes
  • Fix JPEG viewing [27274]
  • Prevent rebase tool from duplicating the libraries that it rebases, by getting it to process only the real libs, not symlinks to them [27409] - fixed #9291
  • Fix --noclean in packager [24b46ab]
  • Fix digital passthrough on Mac CoreAudio [77a852d]
  • Fix blank OpenGL video playback [6846e14] -
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Re-enable ffmpeg binary on Darwin [d16c94e] - refs #9400
  • Re-enable MMX after reports it works on 10.5 and 10.6 [badb292]
  • Build and use YASM [7bd6804]
  • Fix 7.1 channel order in CoreAudio [a79e817]
    • See commit log for details on how to correctly enable
  • Re-write of CoreAudio driver support (Mac OS X) [267cada]
    • Selectable device now in setup
    • Fixes accelerated playback in AC3 passthrough - fixed #5552
    • Properly set channel layout, under most circumstances, you shouldn't have to use Audio Midi Setup utilities
    • Still a work in progress and it is recommended to continue to keep using the default output device for now
  • Update packager to use MySQL v5.1.56 [e9f5527]


Windows

New Features
  • Support DVD paths in Windows [bfd7c49]
  • Add alpha support for DirectX Video Acceleration 2 (DXVA2) [69fefe5] - refs #8620
    • Please see commit log for details
  • New, robust windows build script [42755b3]
Bug Fixes
  • Disables the ffmpeg mpeg-2 startup optimization in the ringbuffer - fixes playback on Windows [27378]
  • Fix ISO playback [0795770]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Initiate support for MythMusic on Windows ([27399], [27402])
  • Extend Direct3D to support multithreading via DXVA2 when supported [2e2a900]
  • Update packager to use MySQL v5.1.56 [6cd2559]


Plugins

MythArchive

New Features
  • Add EAC3 as a valid audio format [206bde0]
  • Add a new version of the Black theme with lots more episodes per page [6101e24]
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Look for fonts in the correct location [26761ab]
  • Change the video selector to use the same parental level checking that MythVideo uses [6bfc715]
  • Set the search popup position for a few lists in the default-wide theme [afc7ba9]


MythBrowser

  • Add ability to evaluate JavaScript in order to control flash video playback [a95968d], [55ca0d1], [7b59f38], [18fa864], [a746d46])
    • Uses default playback group seek amounts
    • Has volume control
  • Bind the INFO action to equivalent Javascript in the mythflashplayer [7e049de]
  • Focus improvements/fixes and show a default url when creating a new tab [6f4c698]
  • Show the web page's favicon on the page selector
  • Show a loading indicator on the page tabs [6eae80f]
  • Use HTTP_PROXY environment variable to get proxy details - works on linux, mac, and windows [01f1c92]
  • Improve file downloading/playing and error handling [8f08915]


MythControls

  • Allow users to reset all keys to defaults [28a42f2]


MythGallery

New Features
  • Add "Ken Burns" style slideshow effect [27309] - #5176
  • Add a setting which enables MythGallery to load automatically if media containing pictures is detected (defaults to off) [80d9234]
  • Add keybinding RUNRANDOMSLIDESHOW - Jump point to start random slideshow [35b8a53] - refs #9530
Bug Fixes
  • Fix honoring caption display time in slideshow and display modes [27313]
  • Fix upper case file extensions which weren't working [641d6e6] - Fixed #9288
  • Allow .RAW filenames to contain spaces when using dcraw [50f9145]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Don't set picture size to screen size, let OpenGL do the scaling - enables better quality zooming and faster display [27312] - #8891
  • Extend the maximum transition times [3fbaa5e]
  • Allow symlinked directories [bedc054] - refs #9509


MythGame

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythMusic

New Features
  • Allow playcount and rating to be written to and read from ID3 tags, if setting is enabled [27319] - adds #8595
    • Honor "write" setting instead of offering a choice to save when editing metadata [27336]
  • Allow the music player to be controlled by sending it MythEvents [747c374]
  • Add ability to control MythMusic playback via frontend control socket [7422f24]
  • Add preliminary support for writing album art (APIC frames) to ID3 tags (not yet implemented) [014e30c]
  • Add preliminary support to enable downloading and saving album art [739a807]
  • Add support for reading, writing, and removing embedded album art in the ID3 tagger [a52601a]
Bug Fixes
  • Potentially fix some font scaling issues with the mythmusic smart playlist popup [ac5b99d]
  • Fix URL redirects [ed93781]
  • Fix UTF8 file names when importing [d581cef] - Fixed #9483
  • Fix fullscreen spectrum visualization [a32e77c]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Empty the current playlist when inserting a CD to ensure the CD is played first [27398]
  • Initiate support for MythMusic on Windows ([27399], [27402]) - ref. #9258
  • Increase the minimum required version of Taglib to 1.6 [27414]
  • Convert busy dialogs in CD ripping screens to MythUI [66b3573]
  • Disable reading TLEN (track length) ID3 frame due to inaccuracies [4e53b23]
  • Add additional events to music player (stats change, albumart change, and cd changed) [58f8352]
  • Improvements and MythUI conversion of the metadata editor screen [a264413]
    • Add rescan option for scanning tag and directory for artwork
    • Add "Search Internet for Album Images" option (uses Google Images)
    • Add ability to search for artist image
    • Add ability to search for genre icons (via itunesgenres group on flickr)
  • Relax the write permissions on directories created by the ripper [63bd364] - refs #9112
  • Check the audio output was opened without error before using it [750bdf1] - refs #9403


MythNews

Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Set the search popup position for a few lists in the default-wide theme [6a6e0c7]


MythNetvision

New Features
  • Add remote control features for various sources (via the new javascript controls added to mythbrowser) ([7ac2b5f], [5b7b93d], [1b639d7], [281efa7]) - Adds #9301
    • Youtube
    • Vimeo
    • Dailymotion
    • blip.tv
  • Allow backend downloader to download saveable files ([7fe2713], [c3bc396])
  • Stream videos directly to the internal player when possible [20ef8b2]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Update BBC and Trailer scripts to account for feed changes [27231]
  • Update MTV grabber script to accommodate API changes [27260]
  • Order youtube search results by relevance rather than rating - results more closely match the website [9b43aa8]
  • Correct Blip.tv API URL [d7550bf] - fixed #9724
  • Update iPlayer grabber for BBC site changes [6eaa653]
  • Deal with incomplete PMT streams in BBC iPlayer IPTV [c11ee69] - fixed #9926


MythVideo/Video Gallery

New Features
  • Permit filtering/sorting by Date Added [c2304c0] - refs. #9085
  • Move MythVideo out of plugins and into core MythTV - Now called "Video Gallery" [f09c512]
Bug Fixes
  • Update Jamu to deal with unicode overrides [3fbe948]
  • Update the seektables when a filename changes on scan in MythVideo [a0fcdbb] - Fixed #9415
  • Fix a bug which caused jamu to crash due to multiple unicode conversions [454f853] - Fixed #9637
  • Fix Jamu crash when cast is NULL [bda604d] - fixed #9693
  • Fix segfault when scrolling in browse mode [5ff3b8b] - ref. #9620
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Only show the "Delete" option from the Video Manager [de7acc4]
  • Re-organize, simplify, and clean up menu ([be8deb0], [9860f1d], [1e7ebbf])
  • Move jamu into MythTV core contrib [e2e46de]
  • Enable "load metadata" and "automatically grab metadata" as default settings for new installs [4bf4aed]


MythWeather

New Features
Bug Fixes
  • Fix Weather Underground Maps script when log directory does not exist [27234]
  • Handle strings in the BBC grabber that may or may not contain an "s" at the end (i.e., shower(s)) [27337]
  • Fix Environment Canada weather and dew point parsing [c68c7ae] - fixed #9657
  • Fix make install for mythweather scripts [30572a4] - fixed #9767
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Use custom makefiles for install in place of qmake [27194]
  • Various NWS-Alert script fixes and improvements [48a1827] - ref. #9799


MythWeb

New Features
  • Add UPnP Discovery to Mythweb ([0133b7e], [c6591a2])
    • Requires PHP compiled with socket support
  • Show Season and Episode in the recorded page [bbb7b6b]
  • Add widgets to edit season, episode, and inetref on a recording [b4e6d25] - ref. #9923
  • Allow MythWeb to launch metadata lookup jobs [0d9e4e3] - ref. #9924
Bug Fixes
  • Fix FLV playback when detected resolution is not calculated correctly [27173] - Fixed #9036
  • Fix cases where the recorded page could get stuck displaying no recordings [c1ef027] - Fixed #8990
  • Fix playback on frontends where a recording has a start early time [6aba7cf] - Fixed #8363
  • Fix FLV playback bit rate calculation to ensure the end of playback is not cut off [ff42fd9] - Fixed #9207
  • Fix blank site caused in the case where a backend command was issued prior to connecting to the backend [7cb9061] - Fixed #9255
  • Prevent failure if a translation file doesn't load, simply warn and continue in English [2d1cae6]
  • Fix aspect ration for flash flowplayer [f33865d] - fixed #9266
  • Fix remote (mythweb) screenshots in mythfrontend ([204f818], [6be90d3])
  • Fix TMDB searches [c03f5aa]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Removed buggy ipod template (for now) ([a4ceb01], [029e9ff]) - Fixed #9220
  • Honor the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header for ssl connections correctly [79b92f6] - Fixed #9240
  • Update Flowplayer to version 3.2.5 (from 3.1.1) [d0671d3]
  • Remove mythweather features [a4c8b26]
  • Remove JSON classes now that MythWeb doesn't support php < 5.2 [cc3c3ae]
  • Attempt to use mythffmpeg, if available, for flash video creation [2c1f442]
  • Allow for async audio when creating flash video so missing frames don't desync the video [2c1f442]



Support libraries & Frameworks

UPnP

New Features
  • Add sorting to Music and TV [a6cd9df]
  • Added HTML capabilities to the HTTP server [28c30ec]
  • Add support for devices which utilize HTTP HEAD requests [aa2be4e]
  • Add new UPNPSubscription extension - an HttpServer Extension that manages subscriptions to UPnP services [d9c4bd1]
  • Add an initial beta UPnP media server scanner and client to mythfrontend [382fbcc], [17c45ca]
    • Currently disabled by default - see [17c45ca] for more details
Bug Fixes
  • Fix file streaming to continue working past 4GB [d5d1cc1]
  • Fix UTF-8 handling on UPnP request URLs [56dab84] - fixed #9188
  • Fix passing a URL key/value containing %26 (escaped &) [f76028b] - fixed #8132
  • Fix the "By Album" SQL query for UPNP Music [31ad01a]
  • Fix video sort query which was causing playback to fail [0529ae1]
  • Fix the "By Channel" query which was returning channels but no recordings [408de0a]
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Allow some clients to find the upnp server by adding missing namespace to device description xml [41afcb2]
  • Allow Sony Blu-Ray players to properly find and play videos [117b1b0] - refs #9424
  • Prevent UPnP detection from using backends of a different version (prevents undesired upgrades and other issues) [e2295b3] - refs #9174


MythXML, API Service, & Webserver

  • New API Service which supplements/replaces legacy MythXML [856b61b]
  • Change the url for the status html/xml pages [73c3b88]
  • Add static html server to the backend [73c3b88]
    • Add an html directory with default content for the backend webserver [fb6ed34]
    • Add server side scripting - QT Script support (.QSP) [2575589]
    • Add support for <il8n> tags in .qsp and .qjs files [d9c00bd]
      • See changeset for more details
    • Add support for server side processing of javascript files (.QJS) [b706fb9]
    • Add Basic Authentication to the built in webserver [61ba720]
  • Added API support for built in types. Now, QString, bool, int, QFileInfo, QStringList, etc. types can be returned from API methods [2575589]
    • See changeset for more details


Python bindings

  • Require Python 2.6 as the minimum supported version [27166]
  • Add support for "oursql" db module [27184]
  • Add support for Python 2.7 [27184]
  • Allow dashes ('-') in hostnames used for FileTransfer [27200]
  • Fix handling of responses to queries from metadata grabbers when provided with no output, rather than the expected of output with no results [27203]
  • Fix lockTuner() and freeTuner() methods of MythBE [5fd4a10]
  • Add IPv6 support to the Python Bindings [cd23715]
  • Remove legacy calls from MythDB, Frontend, and Grabber deprecated in 0.24 [412b2bf]
  • Fix tzinfo handling in custom Python datetime class [a606e97] - fixed #9937


Perl bindings

  • Changed the regexp on audio_type to allow text - allows nuvexport to display audio type [38d3a38]
  • Fix stream_backend_file in the perl bindings ([18a00f6], [7aeb4ea]) - fixed #9837
  • Allow stream_backend_file to accept a myth url [2d59109] - fixed #9838

PHP bindings

  • Add PHP bindings directly to MythTV core bindings (decoupled from MythWeb) [472978f]
  • Add support for IPv6 [8bf5157]


Utility Applications

MythCCExtractor

  • Adds mythccextractor, which extracts closed caption and subtitle streams from DVB and ATSC recordings [48079bb]

mythcommflag

  • Add logging (at -v general,extra) at every 10% progress during commflagging [27193]
  • Reduce I/O priority [27257]
  • Show half the blank frames before and after the commercial break [27389] - applied #8522
  • Terminate early on 0-byte files [61f07e0]
  • Fix memory leak if "blank-frame" method was not enabled [f442cff]
  • Fix crash when using --skipdb parameter [baf6105] - fixed #9515
  • No longer allow mythcommflag to run without parameters (i.e., run on all recordings) [baf6105] - fixed #9512
    • --queue will now process any recordings not previously flagged
    • --force will queue jobs for all recordings
    • --rebuild will queue jobs to rebuild the seektables
  • Add --dry-run option [1cfa959]
  • Attempt fallback to "mythtv://" if a local path cannot be found in mythcommflag --video [546af2f] - refs #9435

mythfilldatabase

  • XML Parser optimizations [27218]
  • Change default run window on new installs to run at any point during the day (does not impact existing users or users that have a grabber that suggests the next run time and choose to honor it) [d915ef7]

mythjobqueue

mythlcdserver

  • Rework clock and recording status on 20x4 screens [11f5e1c]

mythmediaserver

  • Add MythMediaServer as a utility to provide MythTV file serving duties for hosts without capture cards [16d82a1]

mythmessage

MythMetadataLookup

  • Add a MythMetadataLookup program ([913f0d8], [ecfc2ba], [6443825], [6379242], and more)
    • Takes programs as an input, performs a lookup online, and then sets various pieces of metadata on a successful return
    • See commit messages for usage details
  • Implement equivalent of "jamu -MW" functionality into MythMetadataLookup ([d59d23f], [e747d5f])
  • Remove Jamu - Jamu is now superseded by MythMetadatLookup and built-in UI capabilities, and no longer supported/distributed as of 0.25 [b5de3b2]

mythtranscode

  • Include frames cut from the end in the New Length reported [7ac3fee] - refs. #9528
  • Allows a user to select which audio track to extract/transcode [cbf2efa] - refs. #9541
  • Add ability to passthru any audio type to mythtranscode [77e60c] - refs. #9356
  • Fix audio track selection in mythtranscode [52ac546]
  • Make mythtranscode fail gracefully on file not found [ca4001d] - fixed #9427
  • Prevent transcode failures due to false "updated cut list" [e4be111] - fixed #9729
  • Add a "--queue" parameter to mythtranscode [153e5b6] - refs. #9409
  • Add a --fifo-info command-line argument to mythtranscode [f40668e] - refs. #9902
  • Allow for remote transcoding in fifo mode [f40668e]


mythpreviewgen

  • When generating a preview, only wait for 30 seconds, then bail if an image isn't generated ([6aea755vv], [5b046b4])


mythshutdown

mythwelcome

Contrib

  • Fix mirobridge to pass storagegroup directory name through unchanged if it is already unicode [27327] - Fix #9279
  • Move Move dct-channel channel changer to wiki - dct-channel [7f6284b]


Mythextras

nuvexport

  • Convert to using mythffmpeg ([523aef0], [c18508f])
  • Add the audio channels to the episode display [240785b]
  • Use sox to downsample 6-channel audio to 2-channel before encoding (fixes some problems with the source is AC3) [c18508f]
  • Split out iPod exporter into two: MP4 and H.264 [c18508f]