[mythtv] Merging the 'render' branch

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 29/11/2019 11:35, Mark Kendall wrote:
> So after getting on for 600 commits and 11 months, I think the render
> branch is ready for merging.
> 
> I've put a little more flesh on the bones of the wiki page (but it
> still needs feeding):-
> 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/2019-render
> 
> and the full gory detail is obviously available on github:-
> 
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/devel/2019-render
> 
> The great irony is that, after all those commits, a lot of people
> won't notice any difference:)
> 
> Regardless, the new code should be leaner, more portable, more
> extensible and more feature rich. It might even be faster.
> 
> There are still a few tweaks needed and I have a couple of clean up
> commits to push but otherwise the database schema update required (for
> video display profile settings) is already committed and ready to be
> enabled (i.e. via a bump to the schema version).
> 
> Unless anyone has any serious concerns/objections, I will look to
> merge it into master on Sunday. As Stuart has pointed out, we need to
> give this a few months of stress testing before the next release.
> 
> Happy to answer any questions you may have.
> 

I'd like to see this in ASAP as we need to release before the dev freeze
for Ubuntu 20.04 (the next LTS release)


Regards
Stuart