MythTv Player News

Forum Updates

no_email@example.com (flohack) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:18:58 GMT

Dear all,

we have now finally fixed some issues with this Forum software after the provider has upgraded PHP. Private mails are also working again. Thanks Mikkel for his effort!

regards Florian

Version 0.4.2

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:00:01 GMT

Long time, but still alive.

This release bumps the "official" supported protocol version to 40 which means that MythTv 0.21 is supported. Besides that, a few deadlock bugs have been fixed as well.

Recently, I have not had time for the player due to a family increment as well as a job change. Hope to kick in a bit of code in the future and post some more info soon.

\Mikkel

0.4.2 (10 March 2008)
- Bugfix: Player sometimes hung in "opening" due to a bug in the threading code.
This bug could also result in other strange behavior.
- Bugfix: A deadlock sometimes occurred when changing mode while moving the window.
Also fixed issue where mouse was suddenly not removed in fullscreen.
- Protocol versions up to 40 supported as default. (Up to MythTv 0.21)

Version 0.4.1

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:00:09 GMT

Version 0.4.1 fixes a few important issues that exist in all previous versions.
The issues are that recordings could not be deleted from the backend after they had been opened in the player, and that the backend would not shutdown when the player had been used. (Both issues was "fixed" by restarting the backend.)

Enjoy and do not hesitate to give feedback or report bugs to my mail or in the forums.

Full changelog can be found below

\Mikkel

0.4.1 (6 August 2007)
- Bugfix: Connections with the backend was closed incorrectly. This meant that
   the backend kept connections in its "active" list after the player had been
   disconnected. This caused two problems:
   - The backend was unable to shutdown after using the player as it thought
   there was active frontends.
   - When a recording had been used by the player, the backend could not
   delete it until it has been restarted. (It thought the recording was
   still being used)

Version 0.4.0

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:24:10 GMT

Good news everyone.

I just uploaded version 0.4.0. It replaces 0.2.1 as the latest stable version.

0.3.6 have shown to be very stable and I have therefore decided to make it 0.4.0 and it is now the latest stable version. The last stable version, 0.2.1, was still downloaded quite a lot even though it is very outdated in features and stability. It was therefore time to replace it.

Enjoy and do not hesitate to give feedback or report bugs to my mail or in the forums.

Full changelog can be found below

\Mikkel

0.4.0 (22 July 2007)
- When deleting a recording, the selected recording group is now remembered
- Sometimes a recoding was opened when double-clicking on "refresh" button

Version 0.3.6

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:17:20 GMT

Good news everyone.

I just uploaded version 0.3.6.

This version is improves the 'jitter' such that playback should be more smooth and lesser frames should be dropped. The priority of the entire player can also be increased in the preference window.
Besides that a lot of smaller improvements and bugfixes are included.
This is probably the last version from the 0.4 branch and if no bugs are encountered it will be promoted to version 0.4.0 as the latest stable version.
I have started work on the 0.6 branch which should include livetv. I have no idea when the first test-build will be available but I will write a post in the forum when it is.

Enjoy and do not hesitate to give feedback or report bugs to my mail or in the forums.

Full changelog can be found below

\Mikkel

0.3.6 (29 April 2007)
- 'Jitter improvements'
   Player should drop less frames now and jitter should be reduced. Sound is prioritized
   higher and the player should drop frames before making "stuttering" audio.
   This is done by:
   - changing to Pthreads and increase priority of the rendering and decoding threads.
   - The way frames are dropped is improved.
   - Buffer underuns are now properly detected instead of guessed. When the audio can
   not be delivered to the audio-device, a rebuffering is triggered.
- Process priority can now be changed from Normal to High in the preference GUI
- Added possiblity to open local file (right-click and choose open)
- Shortcut system implemented. Shortcuts are now shown in context-menu (right-click)
   Is quite ready for making the shortcuts configurable at a later point.
- Context-menu (right-click) has been added some more items.
- Fixed deadlock that could occour when opening a recording with a bookmark
- Mouse is now shown for in fullscreen when mouse is moved. Is hidden when mouse has
   been inactive for 2 seconds.
- When clicking on column in recordings-GUI to sort the current group is now remembered
- Double-click on a recordings now starts playing it
- Changed way SDL functions are called. Should remove a couple of odd deadlock possibilities.
- Fixed bug that caused the player to remain at "buffering (0%)". It was caused by a bug in
   the timer implementation of the SDL library. It should now work.
- Minor fixes: Framerate shown with 2 decimals, GUI said buffers was 100% full JUST after
   a seek, show warning about rtjpeg codec when codec is unknown.

Version 0.3.5

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:48:25 GMT

Good news everyone.

I just uploaded version 0.3.5
Many improvements have been introduced since 0.3.4. Most important is probably that I implemented a new nuv-demuxer for ffmpeg, such that seeking is now possible in transcoded files. The window with recordings have been improved as well, and it is now possible to configure several features in a preference window. Right-click and press preferences. Other features include the possibility to zoom by using 'w','+', and '-', and bug-fixes. More changes can be found below.

Enjoy and do not hesitate to give feedback or report bugs to my mail or in the forums.

Full changelog can be found below

\Mikkel

Changelog:
0.3.5 (17 March 2007)
- Added nuv-seeking support to the ffmpeg library!
- Fixed a bug that caused excessive logging in backend log. This was caused by incorrect
   shutdown a the connection which received events from the backend
- Last used protocol version is rememebered to avoid messages about wrong protcocol
   version in the backend log files
- Fixed a bug that could cause the player to hang when closing
- Added panscan options. 'W' autozooms, +/- keys for manual zoom
- Automatic commercial skipping can now be configured. Never, always of ask every time.
- Context menu added (Right clicking)
- About dialog
- Preference dialog added. It is going to be expanded over time.
- Mouse is now hidden in fullscreen.
- Forward/Backward skip can be configured. (How many seconds to skip)
- Fixed crash on invalid date. (Thanks to laurent Piguet)
- Sometimes position of video windows was not remember (Thanks to Udo van den Heuvel)
- Recording GUI: Changed layout such that more information is shown in overview.
- Recording GUI: Sorting is now supported. Click on column title.
- Recording GUI: Added total size of shown recordings. It is useful to know the size
   of the different recording "groups", when deciding which recordings to delete.

Version 0.3.4

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:52:16 GMT

I just uploaded version 0.3.4

Major changes are that it is now possible to delete recordings and that the list of recordings is automatically updated when the backend starts recording a new program or a program is delete remotely.
It is also possible to disable the streambuffer (which is only needed on wireless), and to open recordings from a windows share instead of streaming it from the backend. This is a bit faster and can utilize the network more.
Besides that, many fixes have been made.
Full changelog can be found below

I also released the code under GPL and created a project on sourceforge.net. The project page can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvplayer/. I have not uploaded the code to SVN yet.
I created a mailinglist for announcements of new version. It can be subscribed at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mythtvplayer-…

Enjoy and do not hesitate to give feedback/bugs to my mail or the forums.

\Mikkel

Changelog:

- When pressing Right/Left multiple times, the player suddenly seeked from 0:00. Fixed.
- Disable the "Do you want to automatically skip commercial?" messagebox when no commercial.
   marks exist. For example, it is not possible to retrieve the commercial marks through the
   mythtv protocol before MythTv 0.19.
- When length of recording is unknown, "Unknown" is now shown in GUI.
- Error shown when SDL can not be initialized.
- Length of shows that are still recording should now be handled correctly.
- Recordings can now be opened from windows shares. Can be configured by and
   in the config file.
- Streambuffer can now be disabled by setting to '0' in the config file.
   The streambuffer is really only needed when streaming on wireless.
- Fixed bug where player froze when trying to play file that did not exist.
- Recordings can now be deleted. Can be disabled by changed to '0'
   in the config file.
- The player now receives events from the backend. The program list is now automatically
   updated when a new show is being recorded. So, no need to press the update button anymore.
- When the recording that is currently played is deleted, the player stops and notifies user.
- Recording groups are now sorted and number of recordings in groups shown if larger then 1.
   (A bit of inspiration from mythweb)
- AlwaysOnTop did not work as intented. It was disregarded after a fullscreen-mode, or when
   the window was resized.
- GUI. Added subtitle to recording information and now shows hour/minutes of the airtime.

Version 0.3.3

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:32:56 GMT

Version 0.3.3 fixes a few problems introduced in 0.3.2.
Actually it is not really a bug, but a feature. (I am not kidding The problem is that when MythTv backend is set up with the IP "127.0.0.1", the recordings are presented as being physically on the machine with IP "127.0.0.1". This is fixed by overriding this specific IP with the IP of the backend.

\Mikkel

Changelog:
- When the master backend was configured with IP "127.0.0.1", recordings could not be opened.
   This was introduced in 0.3.2 with the support for multiple backends. When the IP is set to
   "127.0.0.1", the master backend is used instead. The option
   is also added to the config file, to force the player to open all recordings from the main
   backend. (Thanks Udo)
- Diskspace is now shown correct with protocol 32 and above.

Version 0.3.2

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:35:36 GMT

I just uploaded version 0.3.2 to the website

The most important features are unicode support in the GUI, support for multiple backends, automatic commercial skips and a messagebox where the name of the backend can be specified.
Please report any problems with this release to me or in the forums. This also concerns wanted features and general discussion about the player.

The code will be released as GPL quite soon, so more developers can kick patches in. (Lets hope this it what is going to happen:)
Concerning the Automatic commercial skipping, it would nice if a warning was showed in the video window, but this requires the possibility to show text in the video window. It is on the todo list.

Here is the full changelog:

- Updated GUI library to FLTK2. Unicode is now support and the GUI looks a bit
   different.
- Multiple backends supported. Recordings should now be opened from correct
   backend. (Has not been tested)
- "First-time" wizard. Simple dialogbox which prompts for backend when
   it is not defined in the config file.
- Fixed bug in Buffering code. This caused data to be dropped from the recording in
   some cases.
- Audio is now enabled even though window is not in focus.
- Disables seek and shows messagebox when recording is a NUV file. This is hopefully fixed
   at one point, but ffmpeg does not support the MythTv specific NUV.
- Automatically commercial skips implemented. Messagebox is shown when a recording
   is commercial marked.

\Mikkel

Version 0.3.1

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:58:08 GMT

I just uploaded version 0.3.1 and changed old 0.1 to first "stable" 0.2.

Please report to me or write in the forum about your experience with the test builds. Good or bad.

The are many changes, but the major ones are surely
- Bookmarks which are set and loaded from backend. Space-bar to set a bookmark, and as default a bookmark is automatically set when stopping a recording. This can be changed in the config file. (look in readme file)
- Commercial breaks: Q/Home for previous commercial mark, Z/End for next. I works for me, but it requires that the current position of the recording is correct and there have been some problems with this on some setups. I hope it works
Full changelog: http://sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/files/0.4/changelog.txt

Also, the way I calculate the current position in the recording is changed, so please report any problems. (Incorrect position of length of recording).

Btw. I am currently working on LiveTv, and it is possible to watch and change channel, but it is far from ready for deployment yet.

Enjoy

\Mikkel

Version 0.1.12

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:54:49 GMT

I just uploaded version 0.1.12.

The changes are:
- Seeking caused the player to hang on some machines, and on others the player stopped whenever a new recording was opened.
- Recompiled ffmpeg dll's with a52 support. This enables playing of High Definition recordings. SDL only supports stereo, so it is always decoded as stereo.
- Added group and recording filter to recording list
- Shows diskspace in recording list. (Temporary placement, but now the info is there)
- Audio was out off sync in some MPG recordings. It seems to depend on the video-capture card. This hopefully fixed it.

If this version turns out to be stable I am probably going to make it 0.2. The idea is that even number should be stable, while odd number is under more heavy development. The reason is that I have quite a few changes which can render the player unstable (Of course I do not expect this to be the case These changes then go into 0.3. More about these changes soon. Unfortunately I am not working on Live-tv yet, but I am getting closer.

\Mikkel

Welcome

no_email@example.com (Admin) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:41:05 GMT

This forum is used for annoucements of new versions of the player.
You can apply to the rss feed or enable email notifications to get notified of new releases.

\Mikkel