2/12/2006

MythTV 0.19

Cardoe wrote this in the wee hours:

Thanks to everyone that tested out the SVN snapshots building up to the 0.19 release, you guys helped work out some potential bugs with the release. I’d just like to single kormoc out for all of his hard work testing each 0.19 SVN snapshot and helping me work through some issues with them.

Anew plugins is now available for MythTV. It is called MythFlix, which is an in MythTV manager for your NetFlix queue.

A new utility app called mythwelcome is now included. mythwelcome displays a basic screen for when mythfrontend is not running, for example if your system boots to record a show. Also, mythlcdserver which should make it easier to make MythTV work with your LCD screens.
The major changes in this release are:

  • LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching
  • Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders
  • Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress
  • Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings
  • Channel changes can be made across tuners without changing tuners manually first
  • New popup keyboard simplifies setup using remote
  • Preview schedule changes when making adjustments to recording schedules
  • Added ability to control MythFrontend through a telnet socket
  • Closed captioning support on PVR-250/350 (but not 150/500) cards, DVB subtitles, and other cards supporting VBI information.
  • New theme (MythCenter), new plugin (MythFlix), and new contributed programs (mythlcdserver, mythwelcome)
  • Signficantly overhauled MythWeb, please read the README for details and installation instructions
  • Added a basic internal DVD player, removing the need to use Xine or Mplayer

* Filed under: General, Linux, MythTV

2 Responses to “MythTV 0.19”

  1. Robert Says:
    February 12th, 2006 at 9:59 am

    Did someone say DVB subtitles? OCR the (image based) subtitles, record them in the stream of every show you record and you have full text searchable tv.

  2. Cardoe Says:
    February 15th, 2006 at 12:10 pm

    Robert, that’d be SICK for complexity factor and CPU usage… but it’d be pretty cool if you could code it.. ;)

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