<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Mark Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@<wbr>mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf<br>
> Of Jerome Yuzyk<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2017 7:16 AM<br>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] worth upgrading to 0.28?<br>
><br>
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:49:24 AM MDT Jim Abernathy wrote:<br>
> > On 04/10/2017 04:32 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:<br>
> > > I'm currently running MythTV 0.27.6-2 on Fedora 22 and while it has<br>
> > > some rough edges, mostly due to PulseAudio I think, at least I'm<br>
> > > familiar with them.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Now that the NHL Hockey playoffs are coming up I'm wondering if 0.28<br>
> > > on Fedora 25 will be worth the effort.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Currently I have a Motorola DCT-700 feeding a Hauppauge PVR-500 and<br>
> > > a Motorola DCX-3200M feeding Firewire.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I could just upgrade to Fedora 23 and stay with MythTV 0.27 and<br>
> > > maybe gain some patches to PulseAudio, or go all the way to 0.28 and<br>
> > > get some MythTV upgrades.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I've read through <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.28" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/<wbr>Release_Notes_-_0.28</a><br>
> > > and don't see anything that would benefit me for TV recording.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Would the move to 0.28 be of any benefit that I'm not seeing?<br>
> ><br>
> > I paralleled .27 and .28 for a while to make sure I didn't have issues<br>
> > before upgrading. The only thing I noticed was in mythtranscode which<br>
> > I used in a script job for post processing. It has been fixed and I'm<br>
> > very content with .28.<br>
> ><br>
> > I thought is that most work moving forward will be on .28 and not .27,<br>
> > so any improvements will not be picked up if I stayed on .27.<br>
> ><br>
> > There have been some improvements on commercial skips that I noticed<br>
> > from my frontend.<br>
> ><br>
> > Once a month I run upgrades to get the latest patches on Ubuntu and<br>
> > mythtv and that's the only time I have to reboot or even mess with the<br>
> > backend. Very stable.<br>
><br>
> Thanks. I was mostly wondering whether there might be something really<br>
> compelling to jump at or avoid the full upgrade from Fedora 22 to 25 and<br>
> 0.27 to 0.28. F23 is the last release to have 0.27 and I'm doing that upgrade<br>
> now.<br>
><br>
</div></div>It will be fairly subjective depending on your individual use case / usage patterns. After all, there are still some happily running 0.18 and earlier. A couple of the bigger reasons for upgrading at this time (IMO) would be:<br>
- if you are using IPTV streams<br>
- if you use mythmusic a lot, it has got a lot of love in recent times<br>
- you want to use mobile clients (like the android apps)<br>
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It is probably worth noting (as I understand it) that fixes/0.27 is essentially unsupported as support I believe is given to head and head minus 1. So if you were setting a new backend up you really should be starting at 0.28. But as you are existing fixes/0.27 then you probably really want to be leaving the upgrade to a nice quiet time to handle issues that may arise from moving from QT4 to QT5, possibly php7 from php5, and any old scripts that assume a particular file extension as a couple of examples. Particularly if you don't have the infrastructure to run both in parallel for a period of time.<br>
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Otherwise, (again IMO) both fixes/0.27 and fixes/0.28 are excellent releases so I would expect you to be reasonably happy with either at this time.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For me the biggest improvement in 0.28 is the gallery / photo album. If you use that then that is a good reason to move to 0.28.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br></div></div>