[mythtv-users] myth .25 verdict?

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, what's the general consensus on a .25 upgrade?
>
> Is it good?  Or, does it break a bunch of things, and typical users
> should wait a bit, for the first round of fixes?  Kinda like waiting
> for SP1 of a MS release :)
>
> In general, every update I've made in the last couple of years has
> made my system worse... and I'm rather reluctant to go through the
> battle again, but my current .24 system has several annoying bugs*....
> I'd sure be happy if they were fixed in .25
>
> * The scheduler can't seem to figure out when it is already recording.
>  I frequently end up with 3 copies of the same show, each recorded by
> a different tuner, at the same time.  Although, only one of them
> starts on time... the others start at some random (late) time into the
> show.
> * Size 0 recordings - I still see these once in a while - marked
> successful, size 0, upon playback, no file can be found.  But this
> issue has gotten better as patches came out on .24.
> * MythVideo has all sorts of issues getting the right data for my
> files... about 10% of the time it looks up the correct program ID from
> one data service, and then uses that ID on a different data service,
> resulting in the complete wrong information (coverart, description,
> filename) on the screen.
> * MythWeather - useless - I have never seen this work.

In general I've found it to be a huge improvement over 0.24 except for
MythMusic. The backend runs much better for me, some nice improvements
in audio and video output and features, and the metadata lookup stuff
has really come a long way.

Your scheduler issue sounds more like an issue with your setup than an
inherent flaw in MythTV, I've never seen it do that and I have 6
tuners.

I don't have an HDPVR anymore, but my parents have two, I've yet to
see a 0-byte recording from them, though it could also be that it had
to reschedule a recording because of an error that would normally
leave a 0-byte recording.

Metadata lookup has been much improved. I haven't noticed any false
hits as when Myth is "confused" it will request user intervention.

I don't use MythWeather for the same reason, so I have not yet checked
to see, but I don't see how it could be any worse, and the Release
Notes show some bug fixing and such has occurred.


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Steve
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