2012-10-01, 12:45
All,
Hopefully most of you are aware that Tvheadend is now a community project and while Andreas (andoma) is still around he's not actively developing. But we now have a small team who are trying to push TVH forwards. We're still finding our feet but hopefully we're making progress.
We are pleased to announce that the first release from the new team has now entered a beta phase. We feel fairly confident that's it's reached a point that its stable enough to alert the wider community and get more people testing. However with any new software update we do expect to find bugs and indeed that (along with documentation) will be the focus for the coming weeks.
Pre-built deb's for Ubuntu can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~adamsutton/+archi...adend-beta . We do hope to offer more packages in the future, but for now should you need to build a specific package the source is here: https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend and if you ask nicely on IRC #hts, you might find someone already has the package you require.
This release is a mixture of bug fixes (to try and address some of the many outstanding issues that have been languishing in redmine) and some new feature updates.
- Muxer framework: we now have a new muxer framework that will make it possible for us to record (and HTTP stream) using multiple container formats. Currently the only support formats are MKV (the default) and TS (using pass-through option). However this may change in the future.
- TS recording: this was a much request feature and thanks to the above we can now once again support it. Simply select the container format in the DVR configuration tab.
- EPG rewrite: the EPG code has had a significant rewrite, this includes a new structure for storing the data internally and in addition lots of new metadata. most notably it includes information about series link and episode ids (where available from the EPG provider) to allow for series recording and duplicate detection. Unfortunately at this stage series recording is only possible from TVH web UI since mods are still needed to XBMC-PVR that will not happen until post Frodo.
- EPG grabbers: in addition to the EPG database update, the grabber framework has been improved. The EIT grabber has been extended, and additional over the air grabbers have been added for Freesat/view (UK) and OpenTV (Sky UK/IT/AU). There is also an external (unix domain socket) XMLTV interface that allows external (cron) running of XMLTV scripts that can then feed data into Tvheadend if more complex control is required. Also more fields from XMLTV are now parsed (included dd_progid episode numbering for those users that have access).
- HTSPv6: the HTSP protocol (used between XBMC and Tvheadend) has been updated. Most of the focus has been on improving EPG performance at this stage, since we were mostly locked in to what XBMC-PVR currently supports. Though we hope to make further changes post Frodo. However the EPG import changes should mean a considerable performance improvement for those using recent pvr.hts addon from github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons. This includes latest OpenELEC git builds (not sure about official beta's).
- SignalStatus: this has now been added back into HTSP, so hopefully that will make some people happy
Any problems found should be reported to https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/tvheadend, or if you're not sure try asking in forums or #hts IRC channel. Please do check existing issue reports before adding a new one though, to avoid creating duplicates.
If there are features you'd like to have added please feel free to stick them on redmine, however I can give no promises about stuff that will get done etc...
Regards
The Tvheadend Team
Just realised...
before people get confused the 3.2 beta deb's are still numbered 3.1.X, there is a very good reason for this that I won't go into here. But I assure you those deb's are correct.
Adam
Hopefully most of you are aware that Tvheadend is now a community project and while Andreas (andoma) is still around he's not actively developing. But we now have a small team who are trying to push TVH forwards. We're still finding our feet but hopefully we're making progress.
We are pleased to announce that the first release from the new team has now entered a beta phase. We feel fairly confident that's it's reached a point that its stable enough to alert the wider community and get more people testing. However with any new software update we do expect to find bugs and indeed that (along with documentation) will be the focus for the coming weeks.
Pre-built deb's for Ubuntu can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~adamsutton/+archi...adend-beta . We do hope to offer more packages in the future, but for now should you need to build a specific package the source is here: https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend and if you ask nicely on IRC #hts, you might find someone already has the package you require.
This release is a mixture of bug fixes (to try and address some of the many outstanding issues that have been languishing in redmine) and some new feature updates.
- Muxer framework: we now have a new muxer framework that will make it possible for us to record (and HTTP stream) using multiple container formats. Currently the only support formats are MKV (the default) and TS (using pass-through option). However this may change in the future.
- TS recording: this was a much request feature and thanks to the above we can now once again support it. Simply select the container format in the DVR configuration tab.
- EPG rewrite: the EPG code has had a significant rewrite, this includes a new structure for storing the data internally and in addition lots of new metadata. most notably it includes information about series link and episode ids (where available from the EPG provider) to allow for series recording and duplicate detection. Unfortunately at this stage series recording is only possible from TVH web UI since mods are still needed to XBMC-PVR that will not happen until post Frodo.
- EPG grabbers: in addition to the EPG database update, the grabber framework has been improved. The EIT grabber has been extended, and additional over the air grabbers have been added for Freesat/view (UK) and OpenTV (Sky UK/IT/AU). There is also an external (unix domain socket) XMLTV interface that allows external (cron) running of XMLTV scripts that can then feed data into Tvheadend if more complex control is required. Also more fields from XMLTV are now parsed (included dd_progid episode numbering for those users that have access).
- HTSPv6: the HTSP protocol (used between XBMC and Tvheadend) has been updated. Most of the focus has been on improving EPG performance at this stage, since we were mostly locked in to what XBMC-PVR currently supports. Though we hope to make further changes post Frodo. However the EPG import changes should mean a considerable performance improvement for those using recent pvr.hts addon from github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons. This includes latest OpenELEC git builds (not sure about official beta's).
- SignalStatus: this has now been added back into HTSP, so hopefully that will make some people happy
Any problems found should be reported to https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/projects/tvheadend, or if you're not sure try asking in forums or #hts IRC channel. Please do check existing issue reports before adding a new one though, to avoid creating duplicates.
If there are features you'd like to have added please feel free to stick them on redmine, however I can give no promises about stuff that will get done etc...
Regards
The Tvheadend Team
Just realised...
before people get confused the 3.2 beta deb's are still numbered 3.1.X, there is a very good reason for this that I won't go into here. But I assure you those deb's are correct.
Adam