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)
- 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