[mythtv-users] worth upgrading to 0.28?

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:49:24 AM MDT Jim Abernathy wrote:
> On 04/10/2017 04:32 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > I'm currently running MythTV 0.27.6-2 on Fedora 22 and while it has some
> > rough edges, mostly due to PulseAudio I think, at least I'm familiar with
> > them.
> > 
> > Now that the NHL Hockey playoffs are coming up I'm wondering if 0.28 on
> > Fedora 25 will be worth the effort.
> > 
> > Currently I have a Motorola DCT-700 feeding a Hauppauge PVR-500 and a
> > Motorola DCX-3200M feeding Firewire.
> > 
> > I could just upgrade to Fedora 23 and stay with MythTV 0.27 and maybe gain
> > some patches to PulseAudio, or go all the way to 0.28 and get some MythTV
> > upgrades.
> > 
> > I've read through https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.28 and
> > don't see anything that would benefit me for TV recording.
> > 
> > Would the move to 0.28  be of any benefit that I'm not seeing?
> 
> I paralleled .27 and .28 for a while to make sure I didn't have issues
> before upgrading.  The only thing I noticed was in mythtranscode which I
> used in a script job for post processing.  It has been fixed and I'm
> very content with .28.
> 
> I thought is that most work moving forward will be on .28 and not .27,
> so any improvements will not be picked up if I stayed on .27.
> 
> There have been some improvements on commercial skips that I noticed
> from my frontend.
> 
> Once a month I run upgrades to get the latest patches on Ubuntu and
> mythtv and that's the only time I have to reboot or even mess with the
> backend.  Very stable.

Thanks. I was mostly wondering whether there might be something really 
compelling to jump at or avoid the full upgrade from Fedora 22 to 25 and 0.27 
to 0.28. F23 is the last release to have 0.27 and I'm doing that upgrade now.

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