MythTV News

Announcement: 0.25 Finally Released!

2012-04-10T08:29:41+00:00

Although we may not be known for using a witty naming scheme, and the version number only increments itself by a single "hundredth" every major release, we're extremely proud to announce the immediate release of what we loving refer to as - "0.25"! It's been 516 days (that's 1 year, 4 months, 30 days) since our last major release, so it goes without saying that a significant amount of work has made its way in to this current release with over 5200 commits making up 0.25.

MythTV version 0.25 includes several significant new features. A few key items to point out - new video acceleration capabilities such as VAAPI and DirectX Video Acceleration 2; expanded and improved audio capabilities including E-AC3, TrueHD, and DTS-HD support; Control your TV and other AV components via CEC (Consumer Electronics Control); enhanced and integrated metadata management capabilities for recordings and videos, and a fully functional API for third-party apps to build upon that can interact with both the frontend and backend - including a HTTP Live Streaming capabilities for delivering video content, in real-time, via the API.

Also noteworthy - MythMusic has been completely re-written and MythVideo is now directly integrated rather than being distributed as a separate plugin. Additionally, MythThemes is no longer maintained as a separate repository – all themes, including third party themes, can now be downloaded directly from the frontend theme chooser.

To see a full list of the "user-impacting" additions, changes, and bug-fixes that make up this release, please take a look at the release notes on the wiki.

You can download the tarballs now:

MythTV (MD5SUM e2ea13fca51f4f9009d5e21e8ebd4544)
MythPlugins (MD5SUM b3f2768372a38e92ca94841519daa05e)

Tarballs of all MythTV releases, past and present, are available on the FTP server, or you can check the code out from git.

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.

Announcement: 0.25 Release Slightly Delayed

2012-04-03T03:29:19+00:00

The release of 0.25 has been delayed slightly by some bugs in the areas of LiveTV and recording from ivtv that we needed just a little more time to finish fixing and testing. We are now targeting Apr 9, 2012 failing any more last minute nasty bugs cropping up.

Announcement: 0.25-rc Released

2012-03-19T07:20:51+00:00

0.25-rc has been released, and our target for full release is Apr 2, 2012

Announcement: 0.25-beta Released

2012-03-05T08:23:51+00:00

At long last, we are releasing 0.25-beta. This is the first stage towards a full release of 0.25 (with a target date of April 2). There have been many changes made since the 0.24 releases. For a list of changes, see the Release Notes.

Announcement: 0.24.2 Released

2012-01-22T17:09:57+00:00

0.24.2, the second release from the stable branch is now available. For a list of fixes made since 0.24.2 see the

Announcement: 0.24.1 Released

2011-05-16T10:39:38+00:00

We've just made our first point release from the 0.24 stable branch which includes all the fixes which have been backported to 0.24 since it was first released in November 2010. Details of the changes since 0.24 can be found in the Release Notes. I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release including those providing detailed bug reports and Matt S. for his great work on the release notes.

This time we are not releasing an updated themes tarball. 0.24.1 includes a fully functional theme downloader within the frontend which allows browsing, downloading and installation of all official and most unofficial themes from a remote server. You should use this feature to obtain updates for your preferred theme from now on.

We'd advise all users currently running 0.24.0 to upgrade, those using the 0.24-fixes branch should already have these changes. If you are using packages and you are in any doubt then please ask the package maintainers which version they are providing.

Work on 0.25 is progressing. We will update you on the changes you can expect and a possible release date in due course.

News: New server

2011-02-12T08:31:10+00:00

We finished the first phase our server migration tonight by moving web and mail services to their temporary home.
Expect there to be some delays and slowness in email while DNS and mail servers catch up, especially if you get your email from Yahoo, AT&T, or AOL.
If you are experiencing any lingering issues by Monday, please speak with xris or beirdo in #mythtv on irc.freenode.net.
Also, it appears that something about the new server has confused our RSS feed and made it resend everything. We apologize for the feed spam this has caused.

News: code.mythtv.org

2010-12-08T08:31:32+00:00

In light of our recent switch to using git, we will be renaming the svn.mythtv.org domain name to code.mythtv.org.
Both domains should work at the moment, but we will eventually start redirecting requests to the old svn.mythtv.org domain name.
We will also have a few new code-related services running on this host, including experimental copies of Jira and Fisheye.

Announcement: MythTV is Moving to Github!

2010-12-02T18:00:00+00:00

The MythTV developers decided to retire our subversion repository and move our source control to github.
We will keep the existing subversion repository around for archival purposes, but it will no longer receive updates.
We will continue to trac bugs in Trac (though we are considering other options for the future).
This will only affect those of you who compile MythTV from source via our subversion repository — the rest shouldn't notice anything from this change.
Here are a few resources for those interested in continuing to follow bleeding edge development, but are unfamiliar with git:
To help organize things better for their maintainers, Themes, MythWeb, and nuvexport have been split out of the main repository. We realize that this may be an inconvenience for some people (especially packagers), but after a rather lively discussion we decided that this is the best option for future development and maintenance.
Additionally: Over the next few weeks we will slowly be migrating all of our core services both to and back from a temporary host so that we can rebuild our server environment from scratch. We appreciate your understanding of any downtime that might occur from this migration, and thank Schedules Direct for providing the temporary home.

Announcement: XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25

2010-12-02T17:07:40+00:00

We'd like to warn users that we are planning to drop XvMC and libmpeg2 decoding support from forthcoming MythTV releases. MythTV 0.25 will be the first release without these features, so you still have several months to upgrade hardware if you wish to continue running the latest MythTV releases. Of course the newly released 0.24 will remain available if either XvMC or libmpeg2 are important to you.
Why are we doing this?
- XvMC - The primary reason is that the XvMC code is very hard to maintain. It requires a lot special handling and does not support the features which many of our other video rendering methods provide. Far superior alternative hardware decoders such as Nvidia's VDPAU are now supported. Crystal HD, ATI and Intel support are also on the MythTV roadmap.
- libmpeg2 - A high proportion of problems reported to us can be traced back to libmpeg2, we want MythTV to be as stable as possible and the advantages of libmpeg2 are outweighed by the negatives. Like XvMC, it complicates the code in ways that make it harder to maintain.
- Both - Additionally, the need for both features is largely gone. Even the lowest cost CPUs which have been available in recent years can easily manage playback of Standard and High-Definition mpeg2. Low power CPUs such Intel's atom are usually supplied with Nvidia's ION platform or can be used with discrete hardware decoding solutions such as Crystal HD.
We believe that leaving these features behind will allow us to focus our time more productively, making the improvements and adding the features that a majority of users want to see.
N.B At some point in time, beyond 0.25, we'd like to drop XVideo support in favour of OpenGL rendering. There will be more on that subject when we have finalised our plans. Rest assured that we are considering embedded platforms and work on supporting OpenGL ES is already underway.