MythTV 0.19 Released
By Alexander Grundner |
February 14th, 2006
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All you Linux MythTV PVR fanatics will be happy to know that a major update is now available. While it’s not a huge version release, there are plenty of new features in this point release to make it a must upgrade (full list).
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
- mythfilldatabase (and specifically the North American listings grabber which retrieves data from DataDirect) has been modified to respect Zap2It Labs’ ‘recommended download hour’ suggestion to reduce the load on Z2L’s servers
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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He's been a long time fan of all things “Digital Home” and participates regularly in the tech/startup scene in the Silicon Valley. You can also find him on Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter.
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