MythTV

After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV are happy to announce 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 ... [More] 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. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki. You can download the tarballs now: MythTV (MD5) MythPlugins (MD5) MythThemes (MD5) Tarballs of all MythTV releases, past and present, are available on the FTP server, or you can check the code out from subversion. If you prefer a pre-packaged version, you may want to check out the wiki packages page to see if your favorite distribution has binaries available for installation or download. [Less]

After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV are happy to announce 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 ... [More] 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. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki. You can download the tarballs now: MythTV (MD5) MythPlugins (MD5) MythThemes (MD5) Tarballs of all MythTV releases, past and present, are available on the FTP server, or you can check the code out from subversion. If you prefer a pre-packaged version, you may want to check out the wiki packages page to see if your favorite distribution has binaries available for installation or download. [Less]

After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV are happy to announce 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 ... [More] 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. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki. You can download the tarballs now: MythTV (MD5) MythPlugins (MD5) MythThemes (MD5) Tarballs of all MythTV releases, past and present, are available on the FTP server, or you can check the code out from subversion. If you prefer a pre-packaged version, you may want to check out the wiki packages page to see if your favorite distribution has binaries available for installation or download. [Less]

During the 2 weeks since the release candidate 1 more than 50 commits went into the release-0-22-fixes branch. The branch is now frozen and only critical issues will be fixed before the final release. Please test the 0.22 ... [More] Release Candidate 2 tarballs. If no new critical issues are reported 0.22 will be released next week. Please make sure to read the Release Notes before upgrading. You can download the tarballs now: MythTV (MD5) MythPlugins (MD5) MythThemes (MD5) Or check the code out from subversion. [Less]

After what seemed to many like much too long of a wait, we've finally started working on a release schedule for 0.22 and would like to announce the availability of 0.22 Release Candidate 1. Please make sure to read ... [More] the Release Notes before upgrading. You can download the tarballs now: MythTV (MD5) MythPlugins (MD5) MythThemes (MD5) Or check the code out from subversion. [Less]

Just a quick update to let you all know that development work on 0.22 is still progressing smoothly. We appreciate your patience while we are working through some of the more tedious parts of this upcoming ... [More] release. In other news, Schedules Direct is still looking for input from users from outside of the US and Canada. We know that there are a lot of MythTV users abroad, and it would really help them out if you would head over there and fill out the survey that they've posted. Schedules Direct is also looking for volunteer developers to help design and implement a new application to deliver guide data themselves (rather than rely on TMS servers), which they expect to serve to 20,000 or more members daily over the next few years. They have been a big help to the MythTV community, and could really use some help. If you have experience with Perl, PHP, and/or MySQL, please take a look at their forum post for information about applying to help. [Less]

After many years running under PHP-Nuke, MythTV.org is now proudly running its own customized website application, which we hope will be faster and more secure than the old site. Plus, we think it looks a whole lot ... [More] better than the old site. The new website has a lot of new features including an RSS/Atom feed, the digg links to the right, and an all new "MythTV in Detail" section, so please feel free to poke around and explore the new layout. It's also a lot easier for us to maintain, update, and improve, so we hope to be able to provide more frequent updates than before, too. If you get a chance, drop by #mythtv-users on irc.freenode.net and thank designer Stuart Morgan (gbee) and coder Chris Petersen (xris) for all of the great work they put into setting up the new site. On a side note, Schedules Direct is looking for information about users from outside of the US and Canada. We know that there are a lot of MythTV users abroad, and it would really help them out if you would head over there and fill out the survey that they've posted. [Less]

New release! It's been quite a while, so there's lots of new stuff. Notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new frontends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one ... [More] DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple 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. Standard release info: 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. See this links section for a list of linux distributions based around MythTV. [Less]

Hey all, just wanted to make sure everyone saw that Schedules Direct is now out of beta testing and fully open for anyone who wants to sign up. With the release of 0.20.2 the other day, switching your Myth config ... [More] over from using Zap2It labs for data is fairly easy. Please see this mailing list posting from Bruce for a short set of instructions - but it mainly just boils down to running mythtv-setup, changing the existing listings grabber to Schedules Direct, and putting in your new username + password (assuming you kept the same lineup config as on the old Labs website). Took me well under 10 minutes. I know, it's a bit hard to start paying for guide data. It was free for so long! I'm not sure how many of you were around during the bad old days of having to screen scrape to get listings data, but it was decidedly not fun. Constantly upgrading XMLTV to deal with website changes, etc. So, really, I don't think paying a little bit for a stable source of good, complete data is unreasonable. This was the best alternative we developers could come up with, given the lack of options available to us, but I realize that not everyone will agree. If you're on the fence about signing up due to feeling that the price is currently too high and you'd rather just wait, I'd like to ask you to please reconsider. SD is a non-profit org run by open source/free software developers for the benefit of the users - not out to make money on this stuff - and the monthly/yearly price of membership will be lowered to meet costs. But, how much the price goes down initially will really depend on how many users sign up during these first months. And finally, I'd like to thank everyone who has already become a member of SD - your support of this project is great. =) And if you haven't, please consider becoming a member of Schedules Direct. Thanks. [Less]

The major impetus for this release is the shutdown of TMS Labs; among other changes this adds Schedules Direct support. The 0.20.2 release notes have a list of the two major and many minor changes since ... [More] 0.20.1. Since 0.20.1 never made it to a public release you may want to look at the 0.20.1 release notes as well. Standard release info: 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 0.20.2 soon. See this links section for a list of complete linux distributions based around MythTV. [Less]