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MythTV 0.21 Released
kormoc writes "The new release has lots of new stuff, notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new front-ends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple of new plugins, some new deinterlacing / video display options, and many, many other things. The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date. Grab the release from the download section and please at least try to read the docs before asking questions. The binary packages should hopefully be updated to 0.21 soon."
...will it blend?
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
I'm pretty sure that MythTV used to use Zap2It to get their tv listing info, but a while ago we discussed that Zap2It was no longer going to provide this service for free. Where is this release pulling the listing data from?
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I have a Myth TV machine using a SAA7134 (MSI TV Anywhere Plus) TV Tuner card, and although this card worked fine in TVTime, and mencoder/mplayer, I had horrible problems with automute in MythTV and I am wondering if this bug has been fixed. I can manually turn off the mute in the saa7134 Mixer, but really, it made me feel ripped off by the guy who sold it to me promising me "This model works in Linux" Well he was telling the truth.
Finally you can record overlapping shows on one tuner! .20 and below this would use two tuners if you wanted 7:30-8pm and 8-8:30pm. Now it is smart enough to pull two streams off the multiplex.
Example: You are paranoid of slight time changes, and record ALL shows with 5 minutes pre and post buffer. In the
It will also let you (if you're in australia) record ABC1 and ABC2 off the same tuner at the same time!
LVM may not be needed for Myth, but as a home server/media center, its important. I LVM a RAID-1 set on my mythbox, and carve out space for pictures, mp3s, etc.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Ok, let me see if I understand this right. . .
People were upset that Zap2It wasn't giving free listings (and they'd rather not pay for the pay service), so they setup another *pay* service as an alternative? Why not just pay for Zap2It? Were they asking for an outrageous fee for the listings?
I mean, I could see it being reasonable to pay a small monthly fee for listings - I mean, it's gotta cost some money to assemble the listing data, and then the cost of running servers and Internet connections to publish those listings. Why create a non-free competitor to Zap2It, instead of just using Zap2It?
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yeah, as a true linfaggot would say, (and as you just did, ofcourse.) - ran out of cum-tissue for the 24/7, perpetual, hobby of yours, and thus 'got the grunts'?
is why these threads should be posted on the RELEVANT website. You got "zap2it is out of blah blah blah" which happened along time ago. How the hell does Slashdot make money. Simple, retards.
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It's not exactly well-described in the changelog (possibly because it's relatively old), but MythTV 0.21 has a nice feature for UK-based Freeview users who use the over-the-air guide data. It can use the episode ID now available in the guide data to identify if two showings are of the same episode, which is a lot more reliable than previously-available methods. (I assume this is the "BBC Series link functionality" the changelog refers to.)
I have to wonder how quickly the new Myth packages will be added to MythTV distros.
Lately I've been struggling with trying to find a working combination of things. I've tried MythTVOS-2008 and while it saw my hardware, didn't seem willing to put any readable display on the screen. Just loaded up LinuxMCE and I haven't been able to get past the initial configure screen thanks to my Westinghouse TV. (It seems to have serious issues with displaying certain resolutions)
I've got a Hauppauge WinTV 150 card, a "ATSC Digital HDTV Tuner PCI Card - Air2PC" thing an a generic type of system board.
I'm most comfortable with RedHat distros such as Fedora but MythDora is still based on Fedora 6 and that can't be good so I haven't even tried that.
There has GOT to be an easier way!
I've had a MythTV setup at home for more than two years now, and have posted several times about it. Here's my quick take on the major changes for 0.21:
* Support for multiple recording directories.
* Support for recording multiple streams over DVB.
* New deinterlacers (and an OpenGL-based video renderer, but that's still disabled by default, as I understand it).
That's it. There are hundreds of other changes and fixes, great and small, but for most people these are the changes that'll mean the most. Despite the 18 months since 0.20's release (a way too-long interval, I'd argue), this is a testament to just how good 0.20 was feature- and stabilitywise.
Even bigger news than 0.21 is the forthcoming $299 Hauppauge HD-PVR, the first consumer-grade high-definition video encoder (and with promised Linux support, no less). Within a couple of months, anyone—not just those lucky enough to have unencrypted FireWire ports—will be able to record in real time full 720p or 1080i video and Dolby 5.1 audio from their high-definition cable boxes into h.264 format and play it back on their MythTV boxes. Be aware, however, that the h.264 recordings will for many likely require faster hardware than what they're using for their MythTV frontends.
I can't believe that MythTV still isn't to a 1.x release... From a user adoption perspective, 1.x looks better than 0.21, which to me implies that it is still beta ( 1.0).