Tag: release

This release is smaller than the last one, but has some bug fixes which folk might find handy. New things in this release:

Better testing:
• r232: Simple script to create the unit testing database

New features:
• r210: Allow users to override the default bittorrent upload rate
• r212: Provide more sync information when running in verbose mode
• r216: Add the markunread command
• r218: Make only one download attempt for a given show per 24 hour period
• r220: Change download interval to one hour, update last attempt time more frequently
• r222: Add –oldestfirst and –newestfirst flags, which alter NextDownloads behavior
• r224: Add flag which forces downloads to run, even if they’ve failed recently
• r226: Don’t mark a bittorrent download as complete just because the torrent file has been completely downloaded
• r234: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found
• r236: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found
• r238: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found

Bug fixes:
• r206: Make the output of “video.py length” more friendly
• r208: Release man pages as well
• r214: Fix a bug introduced in r210 which broke bittorrent downloads
• r228: Fix a typo in the recordings_tool help text
• r230: Fix a typo in the recordings_tool help text
• r240: Reduce size of proxy name in the usage table to deal with key length limitations in MySQL
• r242: The schema for the channel table changed in MythTV 0.21
• r244: Fix typo
• r246: Suppress repeated warnings of DB default use
• r248: Bug fixes for linux.conf.au 2009 talk
• r250: Include test runner script in release, prepare ChangeLog for release

Please grab your copy here.

New things in this release:

Better testing:
• r114: Unit tests for video.py
• r148: Updated unit test now that we create more tables
• r151: Start work on syndication unit tests
• r153: Unit test for bad syndication dates, as well as more flexibility in
  db connections needed for this unit test

• r157: Nicer unit test failure output, and refactor GetVideoDir() into the
  utility module

• r181: Slightly improve syndication unit tests
• r183: Add flag parsing to unit tests, and fix some more flag name changes

Better documentation:
• r117: Added a man page for video.py — I’m not 100% happy with its name
  though

Bug fixes:
• r114: Fixed a bug where the new filename for video transcode could be the
  same as the input filename, resulting in video corruption. This was found
  with one of the new video.py unit tests

• r116: The logic for the –prompt flag was the wrong way around. Fixed.
• r119: Nicer download status messages
• r121: Handle 404s in feed updates better
• r129: Slight tweak to SVN submit script
• r131: More accurate tracking of proxy usage (update during download,
  instead of just at the end)

• r137: Proxy budget being exceeded doesn’t count as a failed download
  attempt

• r143: Subscribe now renables inactive subscriptions
• r146: Add support to decimals to utility byte printer, fix a bug in the
  check for video directories

• r155: Have users send problems to the mailing list, instead of me
  personally

• r161: Don’t throw exceptions for the videodir command line
• r167, 169: Display friendly sizes in records_tool output
• r171: Move verbose update arg into a flag
• r173: Add “-vo null” to mplayer invocation per Ryan Lutz. This improves
  support on machines without X, and speeds up the identify operation

• r175: Import patch from Thomas Mashos which fixes subscription removal,
  started work on syndication unit test improvements

• r177: Fix character escaping bug in show subtitles during import
• r179: Renamed –datadirdefault to –datadir. If set this will now change
  your data directory, regardless of if there was a previous value set.

• r190: Recording_tool now prompts for deletes
• r192: Improved explainvideodir output
• r194: Don’t crash in explainvideodir if there is no video directory
• r197: Order results by subtitle in recordings_tool output

New features:
• r115: Upgraded schema to version 15 to support http_proxies for
  subscriptions. Added http_proxy command line, which allows you to use HTTP
  proxies for specified URLs. Moved HTTP accesses to use the proxy code.

• r127: Bump schema to v17, and add proxy use tracking including the
  “proxyusage” command

• r133: Allow daily budgets for proxy usage
• r115: Provide a user agent for HTTP requests, instead of just
  Python-urllib/1.17

• r117: Users will now be prompted to subscribe to an announcements video
  feed. This will happen exactly once. This behavior may be disabled with
  the –nopromptforannounce command line flag.

• r125: Add a full info dump command to video.py’s command line interface
• r139: Bump schema to 19, and implement categories with the “category”
  command

• r141: Implement recording group support, and clarify category support
• r151: Implement a helper (recordings_tool) for handling the MythTV
  recordings table, this is useful for testing.

• r159: Add videodir and explainvideodir debugging commands, and update man
  page

• r163: Add title list feature to recordings_tool
• r165: Include recording count in title list
• r185: Add the resetattempts command

Development changes:
• r123: Added a submit script to automate putting the revision number into
  the ChangeLog

• r135: Tweak to new ChangeLog auto logging formatting

Release 6 continues the tradition of better testing, improves the documentation (a little, there is more work to be done there), fixes a bunch of bugs, and implements some new features which will hopefully be useful to others. Please grab your copy here.

New things in this release:

• There is now a users mailing list at
  http://lists.stillhq.com/listinfo.cgi/mythnettv-stillhq.com

• Moved to a public SVN server at
  http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/svn/

• Added the ‘justone’ syntax to the download command
• Another try at using gflags. This means that all the command lines have
  changed slightly.

• Moved the core of MythTV out of the user interface file.
• Started writing unit tests
• Changed user output code so that it doesn’t insist on writing to stdout.
  You can now write to other file descriptors, which makes things like unit
  tests much easier to write.

• Added video/msvideo to the enclosure whitelist
• Added HTTP download progress information
• Added a flag which turns off the prompts for markread (–noprompt)
• Patches from Thomas Mashos
  • Search ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt, /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt and
    /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt in that order for MySQL connection information

  • A manpage
  • setup.py
• video.py now has a simple command line interface to let you query it
• Fix update of inactive programs bug per
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5580005&postcount=4

• Better DB error handling
• Included a COPYING file with the right version of the GPL (it was missing
  before)

• Fixed a bug where programs would be downloaded more than once (found with
  a unit test!)

• Started raising exceptions instead of just sys.exit(1). This should make
  life easier for user interfaces in the future

• Default to using storage groups for storing recordings before falling back
  to the RecordFilePrefix. This makes the behaviour: use a storage group
  named “MythNetTV” if it exists; use the default storage group if it
  exists; use the value of RecordFilePrefix.

• Transcode avc1 videos, because some need it
• Force ASCII encoding of title, subtitle, and all fields in the database
  to get around feeds which use unicode which python / MySQL can’t store
  correctly

• If there is only one attachment to an item, and its not in our whitelist
  of video formats, then warn the user that you’re assuming its a video file
  and then add it to the todo list

• Slight tweak to the signature of video.MythNetTvVideo.Transcode()
• Fix buf in RepairMissingDates which caused it to consistently crash
• Fix typo in date warning code
• Better handling of videos where the length of the video cannot be
  determined by mplayer

Release 5 is by far the best tested release of MythNetTV yet, with both unit tests and several users working quite closely with me to resolve problems found in the wild. You can grab your copy here.

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.

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.