[mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester

[Mark]

Wooo hoooo!

Upgraded frontend/backend pc a little while ago and did a few live tv
tests and it goes fantastically so far.  I've had it exit out of tv once
changing channels but if it's occasional I don't think anyone at home
will worry about it.

Thanks for all your work making repos, without them I don't think I'd be
watching DVB-T in New Zealand.

Next task is to look into transcoding HD for my tv pc that doesn't have
a nvidia card - or look into a buying fanless card but I'm a little
worried about the heat and power draw (Asus p5e-v running with a 200W
external power supply so almost silent)

Cheers
Mark


On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:41 +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Ok, here is my new attempt at bringing Mythtv 0.21 up to date, with
> playback features similar to what's running in trunk but without any
> of the new and fancy MythUI which unfortunately, isn't ready yet for
> mainstream use.
> 
> This build is based on 0.21-fixes with quite significant changes, the
> main ones being:
> 
> * FFmpeg has been updated to the version available in trunk. This adds
> big improvement with h264 playback, and it should support much more
> format and codec. All the videos I've tried so far have played rather
> well
> * Various improvements across the board, it should handle more nicely
> when playback is failing.
> * Various VDPAU improvements (I haven't released those patches yet).
> In particular, the video corruption seen on some 720p channels should
> have been fixed.
> 
> I haven't published this information on the main mythtv mailing list,
> as I know it would result in flaming by some individuals.
> 
> I've only tested the frontend side, not the backend. While I'm pretty
> sure it shouldn't break anything, you never know... If some people are
> willing to risk it, I would appreciate. I will tomorrow when I have
> more time.
> 
> I haven't experienced a single crash or "Failure to init video" when
> changing channels rapidly, no matter how fast I try to change them
> 
> I've noticed that the 720p channels will not play nicely if you have
> the AC3 upmixer activated with the "Linear" upmixing conversion, it
> must be on "Passive". No clue why.
> 
> I have a built with the latest ffmpeg , but there are still issues ,
> so not releasing anything yet.
> 
> Now: how to get it..
> 
> I've built packages for Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) only. To access those
> packages, you need to enable the "bleeding" repository.
> Add "bleeding" to the component of my repository, or add the following
> line to your apt.conf :
> deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos jaunty testing
> 
> I've named the version 0.21.5 to avoid confusion in the future with
> the other standard packages.
> 
> Let me know how it goes.. If things go well, I will move those
> packages to testing in the future and build them for all platforms.
> 
> Jean-Yves
> 
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