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Mikkel

(Administrator) 2008-03-10, 21:04 #1

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Subject: Still alive

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know I am still alive

. The time I have been able to spare for the player have been NULL in the last few months, but hope it will be a bit better some time in the future. A new job and a family increment have not left much time for programming.

I just uploaded 0.4.2 where I bumped the "official" protocol version to 40 to support mythtv 0.21 .. If anyone are using 0.21 I would like to know if it works!.. so please report back
http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/forum/thread/127

I have also checked the change into the trunk, and hope to release a 0.5.2pre12 with the change soon.

Cheers,

\Mikkel

This post was edited on 2008-03-10, 21:12 by Mikkel.

bram_ 2008-03-10, 21:30 #2

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Glad to hear you're still into the project. New job and family is more important ofcourse.

BTW what's an easy way to find the latest prerelease without having to check 2 different threads? Some kind of directory browsing or a global link would be useful for quite some of us I think. Eventually a RSS to stay up to date with the latest (maybe this can increase peope testing and you getting lots of useful feedback).

cookm 2008-03-10, 23:04 #3

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Mikkel,

0.4.2 plays recordings just fine against my version 0.21 of MythTV.

Mark

Mikkel

(Administrator) 2008-03-11, 15:33 #4

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Sounds good.

Concerning prereleases I have thought about updating the "main thread" such that it will be easy to find the latest version. The "prereleases" was not meant to live as long as the prereleases for 0.5.1 have. There was only suppose to be a few in order for a few people to test some features they have requested. I made many changes in 0.5.1 so that is why there have been so many pre-releases... and there are still a major blocker which I have not found yet... I think I will make a "latest pre-release" thread and upload 0.5.1 as it is, even though there is a major bug. (It does not blow up your backend

, the player just stops playing and shows an error)

bram_ 2008-03-11, 18:29 #5

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Haha, yeah. I use the latest version currently linked somewhere in a post. Even though the latest version seems to work best of all. I experience hangs regularly but it's no big deal since ill simply start a new instance and have 3 tuners installed anyways. Usually happens when i switch channels too fast (before streaming), or it may take 3 min to 'autofix'.

Regarding the error (if that's the major bug youre talking about) i have also mailed you, some steps to reproduce (recordings also affected):
-20%- Go full screen with another app (not always causes it).
-100%- Have screensaver pop up by windows (myth doesnt seem to block it if checked and restarted)
-100%- CNTRL+ALT+DELL, lock your pc and enter password, unlock (maybe the numbers are caught as hotkeys ?)

maybe you can provide some details on this major bug so we can help trigger or test the cause.