MythTV 0.22 Released 329
uyguremre writes "After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV announced that MythTV 0.22 is now available. There have been a lot of large changes since 0.21, including a port from Qt v3 to Qt v4 and a major UI rewrite to convert to MythTV's new MythUI user interface libary. As always, this release adds support for some new hardware, in this case VDPAU video acceleration, DVB-S2, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR. The MythUI toolkit allows themes much greater control over the user interface and today we're announcing a competition to design new themes for MythTV. With the new release comes a theming competition too. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki."
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:4, Insightful)
Given XBMC is not a DVR, and MythTV is, yes, those of us who don't steal our content still use MythTV.
.01 Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
So, let's get this right, in this update they have:
- Major back-end changes
- Major UI rewrite
- Significant new hardware support
- Also, apparently a more powerful themes toolkit
And this isn't even worth a .1 version increment. It's a .01
Really, if the version numbers are going to be this meaningless for tracking significant changes they should at least name them or come up with some other system. Something that let's people get interested and involved in the project and excited about the new release.
I for one welcome... (Score:2, Insightful)
I've been using MythTV for a bunch of years now, and I find it an absolute blast. It works on every PC I can find, and even on my work OSX laptop, which still lets me watch The It's Alive Show [theitsaliveshow.com] while I'm hacking away. It even eats the commercials, and does a better job with digital television signals. I can't wait for multirec support for my HDHomeRun.
If you haven't tried MythTV recently, check it out again.
Re:Too bad Linux is for faggots. (Score:2, Insightful)
Are you high? What drug is that? Where can I get some (note to the humorless feds: I am kidding)?
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:1, Insightful)
So... running an external scheduling and recording application and watching it in XBMC makes XBMC a DVR? Wow, I guess that means mplayer, VLC, windows media player, ffplay, and everyone else are DVRs too! Wow, DVRs sure are a crowded field!
Is it still same config nightmare? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:.01 Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, let's put it another way. Say you tried it at .20 and found that it was interesting but still too rough for your needs. Now, you are browsing around and see in passing that the current version is .22. Now, based on that .02 difference do you think that it has gone through major changes and deserves a second look or has it just been tweaked a little?
No, don't go overboard. It doesn't need to be silly but it does need to provide a realistic feel of how the project is progressing. If your release notes are including the words 'major' and 'significant' and 'large changes' and 'major rewrite' it might be a good clue that it's worth going up by an entire .1
Or since I'm sure all these didn't happen over night or perfectly in sync it may have called for some internal development releases that would have this public release be 2.5 or something.
Or, yes, give it a name. It works for Ubuntu.
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:2, Insightful)
I got sick of MythTV locking up, crashing, and the constant non-stop twiddling with my configuration because I could never get things quite right.
SageTV isn't much better. I spend a lot less time twiddling, but it crashes and freezes about as often as MythTV used to. I'm still looking for that HTPC that just works. I haven't found it yet.
I have one MythTV backend in my server closet, plus 2 frontend in my house. I never fiddle with the settings, and the server keeps running and recording the shows we tell it to. It never seem to crash.
Since you have the same crashing with SageTV and MythTV, I would be tempted to say that the only point in common those 2 have is : YOU.
I would not let you touch my setup
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:2, Insightful)
I'd use it WITH XBMC once the Myth backend is a bit easier to configure. As it stands now I'm more than happy to DL my TV content - and yes I still have a damned cable sub with premiums and a TIVO attached to it. I just find that torrenting a show is easier and quicker. This is no more "theft" than running Myth with an ad removal program IMO.
You do realize you're paying for cable TV /service/, right? You don't become rights holder to everything broadcast on cable TV just by having a cable TV subscription.
Re:Could be one of the best HD DVRs out there... (Score:5, Insightful)
Get back to me when MythTV allows support for CableCard tuners.
MythTV has supported DVB-C CA modules for some time. Get back to me when someone releases CableCard drivers for Linux.
Fuck that! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's basically a fancy VCR! There is nothing wrong or illegal with it... what is worrying though is that geeks are actually scared of exercising their rights, and are scared of legal repercussions by companies that are taking away your rights.
Why is it that when it comes to media people are scared to stand up for their rights, but when someone tries to 'limit free speech' all hell breaks loose... It's both a right, as is the right to be safe from unwarranted legal action that will bankrupt you whether you're right legally and/or morally.
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:3, Insightful)
records transmitted content (as well as media shifting) which typical is not allowed
It's times like this that I wish "Wrong" were one of the moderation options. Because you are. You've heard of TiVo, right?
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:3, Insightful)
steal
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Re:does anyone still use it? (Score:3, Insightful)
No innovation? My experience with Windows Media Center is that it has gotten to be useless, because it respects the copyright flag. It used to be that this meant that you cannot record HBO, but now, the big four are using it. Of course, my Media Center PC stopped working six months ago, and I was so dissatisfied, that I just replaced it with standard XP. So, in the past six months, it is possible that they have fixed the "we won't record anything but PBS" policy of theirs.