[mythtv-users] Upgrading from .25 to .26 worthwhile?

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Mon Aug 19 23:00:47 UTC 2013


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> Basically, in spite of popular misconception, MythTV /is/ getting better
> with new versions.
>

The "misconceptions" are popular for a reason... 0.24 was basically perfect
for me. I upgraded to 0.25 as part of a hardware replacement/upgrade. But
(for me at least) with 0.25 came broken realtime commercial flagging (is
that fixed yet?), and poor results from even post-flagging, broken
interaction between LiveTV and recordings, unusable MythMusic interface and
random backend crashes. I didn't upgrade to 0.26 because ivtv-based device
recording was completely broken for a while (I think it's fixed now) which
would have made Myth useless for me. Granted, many of the problems can be
traced back to bugs in ffmpeg which were pulled into the tree (and may
still not be fixed), but several of the problems were written off as "race
conditions". That may be true, but it's still broken and nobody cares
enough to fix it. I know, patches welcome... Sorry for the rant. Myth still
works for us and we are grateful for it but it used to be less fiddly.

Karl
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