[mythtvnz] Version 28.0

Paulgir paulgir at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 02:31:06 BST 2016








On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:58:24 +1200, Mark <markk at kc.net.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 15:36 +1200, skooobie doo wrote:
>> I see MythTV is now advanced to 0.28 a few weeks ago. On my play
>> system I installed to check it all out and see how the new web
>> enabled frontend looked.
> My experience so far
>
> I've just upgraded my server to Mythbuntu 16.04 a couple of days ago
> (from 15.04)
> I haven't checked to see if mythtv is using a different systemd script
> to what I had on 15.04.
>
> Upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10 required removing mythtv and zoneminder
> which installed again with no configuration required after the 16.04
> upgrade.
>
> One thing that has been fixed is that NFS now starts up with systemd on
> my PC, I think in 15.04 there was a timing issue or something which
> stopped it starting on boot every time.
>
> I had to make a couple of minor changes to apache configuration files
> for my https to work again
>  * changing VirtualHost port 443 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-
> default.conf * changing /var/www in several files to /var/www/html
>
> The main problem I've had so far is that network manager is now more
> fu*#king pervasive.  It's never worked well for me with a static ip
> address, primarily screwing up DNS resolution.  Now if you manually
> configure network interfaces via /etc/network/interfaces, network
> reliant gnome apps do not work (it stopped my Evolution mail client).
> Setting up the network with network manager produced some flakey
> results and I suspect that after a reboot it will play up again.
>  Probably time to set fixed dhcp addresses for my server in my routers.
>
> On a real big plus, I can now have sound out of both my HDMI output
> (Nvidia GT220) and analog output at the same time.  Haven't upgraded my
> lounge client yet but am hoping for the same audio plus, it's running
> 14.04 so I think that'll be a single step upgrade.  I'm suspecting
> there may be problems on that machines my HDMI CEC setup but am hoping
> mythtv's cec control is more integrated and I can get rid of my custom
> libcec-daemon  
> Boot time is faster.
>
> Video using the new Web FrontEnd doesn't play (Chrome or Firefox) with
> an error 'Your browser does not support adaptive streaming with HTML 5
> Video, you will need to  install JW Player™  to use this HLS test page'
> which I haven't investigated yet.
>
> I think there's an extra performance level in the nvida settings.
>
> Just looked at cpu usage as PC seemed to be running a bit sluggish and
> noticed that there's two busy mythtranscode jobs running and I thought
> I previously had none setup to ever run.
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
>
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Is 0.28 available for Mythbuntu 12.04 or does the OS need to be upgraded?
I don't see the option in myth control center.

Cheers
Paul



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