14 DAY TRIAL // The major MythTV 0.28 release of the open-source digital video recorder project received today its first point release after almost 10 months since its initial launch.
MythTV's goal has always been to be the free and open source home entertainment application for GNU/Linux users who want to turn their computers into a home theater PC (HTPC) or media center PC.
The software offers a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for your living-room TV, and comes with many attractive features. MythTV 0.28 is the latest stable series of the application, officially announced on April 11, 2016.
It shipped with VBox TV Gateway support, MythZoneMinder pop-up notifications on alarms, support for both VP9 and H.265 (HEVC) codecs, support for the FFMpeg 3.0 multimedia framework series, and a major UPnP overhaul.
As mentioned before, MythTV 0.28.1 is the first maintenance update to MythTV 0.28, and according to the release notes, it includes more than 130 improvements and bug fixes to further stabilize the application.
Highlights of MythTV 0.28.1
Among some of the noteworthy changes implemented in MythTV 0.28.1, we can mention HEVC support to the MPEG-TS parser, support for A53 captions, additional CORS support for the built-in HTTP server, and compatibility with the libcec4 library.
The patch also fixes FIFO and RTjpeg transcoding, adds proper handling of stride size when transcoding, introduces the ability to stop and reactivate a recording, and implements automatic detection of systemd on Arch Linux systems.
The IPTV recorder now recognizes HTTPS (Secure HTTP) URLs, improves Raspberry Pi support for the CEC protocol, as well as OSD (On-screen display) and time stretch support, and repairs the OpenMAX HDMI audio 5.1 channel PCM crackling noise.
The Gallery component was updated as well with support for European caption date formats, a new crumb separator, keyboard shortcuts for setting covers, status delay support, and the ability to jump back and forward in the slideshow.
MytvTV's MythWeb component also received a bunch of improvements, and we recommend checking out the full changelog attached below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in MytvTV 0.28.1 because it would be impractical for us to list all the bug fixes here.
In the meantime, we invite you to download the MythTV 0.28.1 source tarball from our website if you want to update your installations, or you can wait until the new version lands in the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.