[mythtv] Merging the 'render' branch

[Mark Spieth]

On 11/29/2019 10:44 PM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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)
>
I have no problem with this too. I've been looking forward to it. 
Hopefully better on lower end android boxes.

Mark (S)