27 August 10 - 19:41Changes in MythTV 0.24
In addition to the changes reported here, the last few days saw some more changes in the code that will lead to MythTV 0.24:
- DVD ripping from within MythTV has been permanently removed, as it had a lot of issues. You still can rip your DVDs with any tool you like and then access it from within MythVideo.
- ISOs and VIDEO_TS folders now have Storage Group support and the OSD shows their artwork.
- Support for XSub subtitles was added
- CrystalHD acceleration support has been added, but I don't have the hardware to test
- Themes can now be installed from the frontend via FTP
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23 August 10 - 19:35What's new in the development of MythTV 0.24?
I will try to keep you updated on the changes to the current trunk version of MythTV that will eventually lead to version 0.24:
- the OSD has been converted to MythUI, much theming is still needed, but mine is pretty good already (Willi Theme)
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HD audio codecs and output have been worked on
- ALSA device detection was improved
- Playback and menu support for the Blu-ray disk format is in the works, but I have not tested it
- Theme download site to be integrated into MythTV, making the process of installing other Themes easy
- Additional scripts have been ported to the Wiki, which used to be in the contrib folder
- Themes have gotten some improvement, font declarations have been changed
- mythnetvision is getting some more content providers
- the main code was synced with revision 24880 of ffmpeg (adding Native
VP8 decoder, AAC SBR and PS (full HeAACv2 support), WebM, libvpx, DXVA2,
indeo5, wmavoice, binkvideo, amr-nb)
- OSD has some more information about the item being payed, like
type (recording, dvd etc) codec (mpeg2, mpeg4 etc) sound (mono, stereo
etc)
- better subtitle support (I have not tested), even when zoomed including raw subtitles
- ability to query the channel list via the network control interface
- support for the various raw photo formats as decoded by dcraw for MythGallery
- "Reduce to fit" scaling option in MythGallery
- faster commercial detection, as an option
- VDPAU as GUI renderer, in addition to the time tested QT and OpenGL versions
- OSD Menu has be reorganized into categories (audio, video etc)
- support for the VideoDecodeAcceleration framework on OS X
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23 August 10 - 19:05MythWeb with many, I mean realy many, recordings
I ran into this problem: I tried to view the list of recordings and nothing happened.
The error message from "tail /var/log/apache2/error.log" was the following,
[Mon Aug 23 11:53:09 2010] [error] [client 194.25.15.12] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 82 bytes) in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/modules/tv/recorded.
To increase the memory limit I used to edit php.ini, but it seams those are only the global values. For mythbuntu you will find the file needing editing here:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf
Search for the term php_value memory_limit and change it to something bigger. I use 1024M as I have lots of RAM and just don't want to bother with it again.
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20 August 10 - 22:14New OSD information for Willi
New version here.
Mark Kendall added a nice feature to MythTV, as of 25750 in Trunk, that allows the user to see some technical information about the item that is being watched. I added these to my current version of the Willi theme, that also includes some improvements. Still not finished is MythVideo, that at least now has some more features. Download this latest snapshot here.
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27 August 10 - 17:52Kubuntu 10.04.1 on Lenovo G550 (freedos version)
Last week I bought a new Lenovo G550 for my sister. It comes with an Intel Dual Core T4500 at 2.3 GHz with a 250Gb quiet hard drive. Memory where two times two Gb. The LED screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 Pixel with an actual size of 39 cm (15,6"). The graphic card is a Mobile Intel GMA 4500M and the wireless card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g. All in all the Laptop is well packages and sturdy. Most of the housing as a fine structure, such that you do not leave print marks all over it. The CPU fan only kicks in once in a while and does not bother too much.
Kubuntu 10.04.1
The system I bought came with freedos installed. I just popped in a Kubuntu 10.04.1 boot CD and pressed F12 to get to choose the CD drive. After that I selected as a boot option "nomodeset", as this was advised in several forums, after the first try got me to a black boot screen. After the installation everything worked but for the wireless link. You need to install some firmware first. "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source" will do the trick.
The graphics driver seemed somewhat slow, so I installed a snapshot of the new 1.9 Xorg from the xorg crack pushers PPA. Don't let the name fool you, the packages are well build. After a reboot the system feels very speedy.
No more changes where necessary. Webcam, Ethernet, Sound and USB work right out of the box.
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