I get a few support requests for MythNetTV, and I must admit that I sometimes get quite behind on my personal email, especially when I'm travelling. I've therefore created a mailing list for announcements and discussion in the hope that people will chat and come up with great ideas, as well as being able to support each other.
New things in this release: Removed gflags because people found it hard to find Bug fix patch from David Linville applied Fixed broken imports caused by refactoring Transcode not needed for avc1 and m4v Another bug fix patch from David Linville applied Store filesize in the db Removed some namespace imports I am not a fan of Made verbosity optional for --update Small code cleanups Let the user know of repeated attempts to download a program Documented the need for bittornado for bittorrent to work Abandon downloading after 3 failed attempts (you can configure the number) Detect stuck bittorrent downloads Release 3 had a few bugs folks reported, this release should fix those problems. Let me know if you still see any. You can grab your copy here.
I'm thinking of getting rid of comcast and getting a high def over the air tuner as well as a netflix subscription. I'd be interested in people's opinions of netflix. I guess I'm just fed up with comcast's woeful customer service, quite ordinary analog reception, and complete lack of any new programming. Its been about six months since there was something we really wanted to watch on the channels we get, and I've only just noticed...
New things in this release: Started work on an RSS exporter for MythTV recordings DX50 doesn't need transcode Tweaked supported video mime types so "Tikibar TV" and "Ask a ninja" work First cut of Bittorrent support Schema upgrades Archive recordings as well as importing them Improved --list output Subtitle restrictions on download as well Make subscriptions inactive instead of deleting them (for unsubscribe) Better filename safening More markread options Refactored code to be more sane Don't archive things imported from the archive location Bulk import (--importmanylocal) This version was a long time coming. Sorry about that. You can grab your copy here.
Jake Graft pointed out in a comment that I had forgotten to put the init script from the MythTV book online. My apologies. #! /bin/sh # # mythbackend # PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin BACKEND=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend BACKEND_NAME=mythbackend MYTHUSER="myth" test -x $BACKEND || exit 0 set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting MythTV: $BACKEND_NAME" su ${MYTHUSER} -c "$BACKEND -v all -d -l ${MBE_LOGFILE}" & echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping MythTV: $BACKEND_NAME" killall $BACKEND echo "." ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
I must say I am pleased with the Amazon rank for the MythTV book. The ranks seem volatile though -- the other day it was doing well in "Linux books", now its doing well in "video books".
In the last week, I have discovered three download sites offering illegal downloads of the MythTV book e-book. If I can find three without really trying, I assume there are a lot more of them out there. This raises a question for which I don't have a good answer. Do illegal downloads of books increase, or decrease sales? I can see arguments either way, but I'm tending towards the belief that they don't increase sales. Does anyone out there have any data which isn't merely anecdotal? Want to share it?
This release has bug fixes (including code from "nickca" for FLV support), and some new minor features. Enjoy! Started working harder to ensure video filenames are unique once imported into MythTV, I now prepend video files with epoch seconds at time of import DIVX (not divx) doesn't need transcode, added. Check for the existence of the video directory, and return an error if it needs creating. Handle storage groups, check for the existence of the data directory Updated docs Complained about the poor state of SWF support WMV support FLV support Get it here if you care: http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/
Ok, for those of us in the US, we'll be glad to know that Schedules Direct is now live with two weeks to spare. It seems that the easiest way to perform the upgrade is to upgrade to 0.20.2, and then change the configuration to use SD instead of Zap2IT. Note that I haven't done it myself yet, but that there are instructions on the MythTV wiki.
Its been a while since I have commented on the state of US guide data for MythTV here. That's mainly been because I have been waiting for the situation to become more clear. At this stage there are some interesting things to report: zap2it shutdown is still slated for September 1, 2007 MythTV developers, and others, have teamed together to form Schedules Direct as a replacement There are forums for Schedules Direct discussion Schedules Direct will be charging around $5 US a month, at least initially The first 100 beta testers have been added, and bugs found Code has been added to the development version of MythTV to start handling Schedules Direct (although you are not forced to upgrade to use the new guide data source)