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 The release notes page in the wiki has the list of what's changed, but it's currently a couple thousand checkins out of date.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

[CastrTroy]

If you want continual quality listings, you're probably going to have to pay for it. I got SageTV, and with the $80? I spent, I get free listings, for well, I guess as long as they stick around. I've been using it for like 2 years now, so I guess based on that rate, it would be $40 worth of listings. I think people should be thankful that Zap2it lasted as long as it did. You can't expect some company to just feed you data that they've spent a lot of time gathering for free.

Two years with MythTV

[Yeechang Lee]

I've had a MythTV setup at home for more than two years now, and have posted [slashdot.org] several [slashdot.org] times [slashdot.org] about [slashdot.org] it. Here's my quick take on the major changes for 0.21 [mythtv.org]:

* Support for multiple recording directories.
* Support for recording multiple streams over DVB.
* New deinterlacers (and an OpenGL-based video renderer, but that's still disabled by default, as I understand it).

That's it. There are hundreds of other changes and fixes, great and small, but for most people these are the changes that'll mean the most. Despite the 18 months since 0.20's release (a way too-long interval, I'd argue [gossamer-threads.com]), this is a testament to just how good 0.20 was feature- and stabilitywise.

Even bigger news than 0.21 is the forthcoming $299 Hauppauge HD-PVR [avsforum.com], the first consumer-grade high-definition video encoder (and with promised Linux support, no less). Within a couple of months, anyone—not just those lucky enough to have unencrypted FireWire ports—will be able to record in real time full 720p or 1080i video and Dolby 5.1 audio from their high-definition cable boxes into h.264 format and play it back on their MythTV boxes. Be aware, however, that the h.264 recordings will for many likely require faster hardware [gossamer-threads.com] than what they're using for their MythTV frontends.