MythTV 0.21 Released

kormoc writes "The new release has lots of new stuff, notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new front-ends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple of 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 The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date. 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."

Re:TV Listings

[shadow42]

The MythTV box I use at home (version 0.20) is pulling listings data from Schedules Direct [schedulesdirect.org], the service created to replace Zap2it's listings service.

Re:TV Listings

[The Stranger]

I'm pretty sure that MythTV used to use Zap2It to get their tv listing info, but a while ago we discussed [slashdot.org] that Zap2It was no longer going to provide this service for free. Where is this release pulling the listing data from?

MythTV can get listing info from various sources, but I think most folks (at least in the USA and Canada) are now using Schedules Direct (http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ [schedulesdirect.org]). Schedules Direct was set up by various folks involved with open source video/television related projects like MythTV in response to the Zap2It free listings shutdown and has reached its goal of getting enough subscribers to hit a price point of $20 per year for listings data (with a 7 day free trial). My experience with the transition was that it was pretty much seamless.

Re:Bug Fixed in the SAA7134?

[cayenne8]

"I have a Myth TV machine using a SAA7134 (MSI TV Anywhere Plus) TV Tuner card, and although this card worked fine in TVTime, and mencoder/mplayer, I had horrible problems with automute in MythTV and I am wondering if this bug has been fixed. I can manually turn off the mute in the saa7134 Mixer, but really, it made me feel ripped off by the guy who sold it to me promising me "This model works in Linux" Well he was telling the truth."

I'd say it is best to go with the Haupauge (sp?) cards that are proven winners with MythTV...cheap and you can slap multiple ones in there to record/watch on different channels at the same time. That and they have hardware decoding/encoding which allows you to run slightly less powerful processors on the box itself....

DVB Multiplexing!

[batkiwi]

Finally you can record overlapping shows on one tuner!
Example: You are paranoid of slight time changes, and record ALL shows with 5 minutes pre and post buffer. In the .20 and below this would use two tuners if you wanted 7:30-8pm and 8-8:30pm. Now it is smart enough to pull two streams off the multiplex.

It will also let you (if you're in australia) record ABC1 and ABC2 off the same tuner at the same time!

Re:Bug Fixed in the SAA7134?

[jerkychew]

Or if you have a cable box with firewire ports you can jack directly into it. 0.21 has huge fixes for firewire.

Re:I'm confused about something. . .

[digdogger]

The problem with Zap2It labs was that there was no pay service (and they apparently weren't interested in providing one). Their main beef was the many commercial products that were using the service.

Re:I'm confused about something. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

People *wanted* to pay Zap2It, but Zap2It wouldn't take their money. We don't know why (they do). So instead, SchedulesDirect did it.

Re:I'm confused about something. . .

[grommit]

Because Zap2It wasn't offering a pay service for individuals anymore. Zap2It doesn't have the infrastructure in place to accept payments from thousands of individual people. They are built around accepting large payments from dozens of companies for those companies to use. Zap2It got tired of individuals taking advantage of their free service and they didn't want to bother with setting up a pay system for individuals so Schedules Direct was created to fill in the gap.

Re:DVB Multiplexing!

[Anonymous Coward]

IceTV - http://www.icetv.com.au/ [icetv.com.au]

They offer a EPG service in Australia with free trial. Works with MythTV.

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Re:Current Best MythTV distro?

[acidrain69]

Try Knoppmyth. Yeah, it's Knoppix-based and thus Debian, but try it anyway. Go outside your comfort zone. I've been using it for about a year now. The last few versions have been very easy to set up. I don't have a digital card tho, so don't know how it will play with your ATSC card.

http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html [mysettopbox.tv]