[mythtv] question about the status of mythtv development

[Simon Kenyon]

On 06/01/2012 19:13, Mark Kendall wrote:
> There was some discussion around late November/early December about a
> feature freeze with a view to getting 0.25 out. There wasn't agreement
> at the time, though I imagine it will come up again in the near
> future. January tends to be a time when people pick things up having
> had a quiet Christmas period (and this year appears to be no
> exception).

i run trunk and try to keep reasonably up to do. so the actual release 
does not make a whole lot of difference.

what does make a difference to me is the activity to reduce the bug 
count that occurs just before it is made. broken channel changing in 
live-tv is one that i would love to see fixed.

> Speaking for myself, I want to commit a few dvd patches and finish off
> the 3d/stereoscopic support that is currently limited to OpenGL and
> then I'll personally be happy with my own 'contribution'. (and I need
> to add some frontend services API functionality before Robert shoots
> me!)

wish i could afford a 3d tv.

> Other things that would be nice to get done are the outstanding DXVA2
> bug (windows equivalent of VDPAU), the same for VDA (OS X) and smooth
> out the rough edges for UPnP scanning (plug and play support for other
> UPnP media servers on the network).

getting upnp to work nicely with xbox and ps3 would be nice. all my 
recordings turn up as music on an xbox. but that is not my prime 
use-case, so i can live with it.

> It hasn't been discussed but I'm guessing the main blocker for release
> at the moment is cleaning up the new HTTP Live Streaming functionality
> and getting that implemented in at least 1 or 2 'apps' to showcase it
> properly (it's a great feature and it would be a shame for 0.25 to go
> out with it half baked). There has also been some recent momentum with
> mythmusic and mythgallery re-writes (libmythui and storage group
> conversions). It would be fantastic to have tv, videos, music and
> images all fully integrated for 0.25 but it will more than likely be
> for 0.26.

i know that work is being done on an ipad app. would be cool to have that.

thanks for answering. it is appreciated.
-- 
simon