[mythtv-users] MythBox for XBMC - RC2 is out

[Chris Adams]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:02 AM, sp <analogue at yahoo.com> wrote:
> MythBox is a MythTV frontend for XBMC
>
>
> http://mythbox.googlecode.com
>
> Features
>  - Linux, Mac, and Windows supported
>  - Watch recordings with commercial skipping
>  - Watch Live TV
>  - Schedule recordings
>  - Fanart from tvdb.com, themoviedb.org, imdb.com, tvrage.com and Google image
> seach.
>  - TV Guide
>  - Upcoming Recordings
>  - Supports MythTV 0.21, 0.22, and 0.23
>  - Move commercial flagging jobs to the front of the queue
>
>
>  New
>    - Added Sort feature to the Upcoming Recordings screen
>    - Issue 93 - Added splash screen
>    - FFmpeg output is cached for framerate extraction used by comm flagging
>    - Added 'Enable Aggressive Caching' to Settings->MythTV to pre-cache
> framerate and commercial break info
>    - Added Season and Episode to the Recording Details screen when available
>    - Added TVRage as a provider of TV show metadata (used for season & episode)
>    - Commercial breaks are only skipped once during playback (restarting
> playback in 'Play' only mode is no longer necessary if the comm break info is
> incorrect)
>    - Issue 97 - Myth TV hostname and port are now queried directly from the
> database. Changed to read-only on the Settings->MythTV screen
>    - Issue 106 - More responsive fanart lookup based on the current list
> selection in the Watch TV screen
>    - Issue 109 - Enabled navigation from the MythBox Settings screen to the
> XBMC Settings screen
>    - Issue 114 - Added slave backend hostname to the comm flag status on the
> Home screen
>    - Issue 118 - MythTV 0.23-1 compatibility (Protocol 57)
>    - Issue 121 - German translation updates (thanks to linuxluemmel)
>
>  Fixed
>    - Issue 96 - Translations updated (ready for non-English contributions)
>    - Issue 98 - IP addresses are used throughout the codebase. No more host not
> found errors.
>    - Issue 107 - Database connections are now closed when idle and reconnect on
> demand.
>    - Issue 108 - Focus changes to Play+Skip button in Recording Details screen
> after user has already switched focus to another button
>    - Issue 117 - Selecting the currently playing program in the TV Guide
> launched the Create Schedule window instead of starting Live TV
>    - Last focused recording was not restored correctly after a Refresh in the
> Recordings screen
>
> Enjoy,
> sp

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