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MythTV 0.21 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the i-want-my-i-want-my-i-want-my dept.

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 The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date.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."

5 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Re:TV Listings by shadow42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The MythTV box I use at home (version 0.20) is pulling listings data from Schedules Direct, the service created to replace Zap2it's listings service.

  2. Re:TV Listings by The+Stranger · · Score: 5, Informative

    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? MythTV can get listing info from various sources, but I think most folks (at least in the USA and Canada) are now using Schedules Direct (http://www.schedulesdirect.org/). Schedules Direct was set up by various folks involved with open source video/television related projects like MythTV in response to the Zap2It free listings shutdown and has reached its goal of getting enough subscribers to hit a price point of $20 per year for listings data (with a 7 day free trial). My experience with the transition was that it was pretty much seamless.
  3. DVB Multiplexing! by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Finally you can record overlapping shows on one tuner!
    Example: You are paranoid of slight time changes, and record ALL shows with 5 minutes pre and post buffer. In the .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.

    It will also let you (if you're in australia) record ABC1 and ABC2 off the same tuner at the same time!

  4. Re:I'm confused about something. . . by digdogger · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with Zap2It labs was that there was no pay service (and they apparently weren't interested in providing one). Their main beef was the many commercial products that were using the service.

  5. Re:I'm confused about something. . . by grommit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Zap2It wasn't offering a pay service for individuals anymore. Zap2It doesn't have the infrastructure in place to accept payments from thousands of individual people. They are built around accepting large payments from dozens of companies for those companies to use. Zap2It got tired of individuals taking advantage of their free service and they didn't want to bother with setting up a pay system for individuals so Schedules Direct was created to fill in the gap.