MythTV Themes

Neue deutsche HD Sender und MythTV

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:33:00 +0200

Bei MythTV Talk wurde die Frage gestellt wie man am besten die neuen HD-Sender in MythTV übernimmt ohne die Sendernummerierung zu verlieren. Hier nochmal zusammengefasst:

Mit "/usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose" sollte man sich auf alle Fälle erst ein Backup machen
dann diese Datei (channel_numbers_update_de.sql) auf den Server runterladen
über z.B. mythweb sich die jetzige Sendernummerierung in die runter geladene Datei übernehmen oder die dort vorgeschlagene belassen. "channum=1" steht für die Sendernummer.
danach mit "sudo mythtv-setup" einen neuen Senderdrurchlauf starten und "alle Transponder" und "neue Transpoder suchen" auswählen.
jetzt sollten die neuen Sender existieren, aber die Nummern mit keiner Ordnung vorliegen.
der Befehl "mysql --database=mythconverg --user=mythtv --password=meinpword < channel_numbers_update_de.sql" ändert dann die Sendernummern. Alles OK.

Willi theme now for MythTV 0.25-fixes

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:57:00 +0200

The Willi theme is now part of the official MythTV Theme repository. All future updates to my themes will happen there.

New features

Animated transitions and popups
16x9 formated, no 16x10 support anymore
Higher resolution 1920x1080
MythMusic is now themed
MythVideo was transitioned into the main theme
MythGallery has been tweaked to make more space for photos
OSD has been tweaked
Use fixed width font for information that should be evenly formated
and many other smaller fixes

Download it directly from within MythFrontend.

mythnettv now downloads from Vimeo

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:24:00 +0200

Evermore content is uploaded to sites like Vimeo and Youtube. I have added the fist steps to downloading this kind of content into MythTV. All you need is a copy of mythnettv from my Git. Make sure you install all the dependencies (py-videodownload, python-tvrage, py-unrar2, transmissionrpc) as described in the README file. Then subscribe to a Vimeo rss like this:

mntv subscribe "http://vimeo.com/jref/videos/rss" "James Randi Educational Foundation" "JREF"

and start downloading the videos.

Changes to Willi theme in current pre 0.25 trunk MythTV

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:11:00 +0200

Following changes have been committed to the Willi theme in the current development cycle towards MythTV 0.25:

Laima theme got some love

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:07:00 +0200

I added the edit features to the OSD and made sure, that the information only gets displayed on the black bars while watching 16x9 a recording on a 16x10 screen. The "watch recordings" screen now shows the date and time of the recording as well as a very faded fanart as background. Still no support for any of the plugins. Get and test it through the theme chooser within MythFrontend 0.25.

Some improvements to mythnettv

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:09:00 +0200

It seems that the original development of mythnettv has stopped. I have been maintaining a branch of my own, just to scratch some itches I had, as I use it to download such shows as TED-Talks and SLOW TV. The following is a list of changes I have done to the code since release 7 (January 2009) by Michael Still, that might interest you:

the command "mythnettv statistics" is now much shorter. I have commented out most of the "what has been downloaded" part and only left "what will be downloaded".
downloads which are stored in a folder are handled a bit better, but some more work needs to be done. Only single file video files in a folder are currently supported.
no transcoding is done for most modern, linux friendly file formats, as they are well supported by the internal player within MythTV 0.24.
neither commercial detection nor seek table creation are done anymore, as MythTV 0.24 then screws up playback of some web content.
some basic detection of subtitles, audio (mono, stereo etc) and video (widescreen, 720p etc) properties is done while importing. This metadata is inserted into the database to be displayed as if the file had be recorded with valid EPG data.
a new command line "myhtnettv updatemeta filename" allows you to update the database retrospectively with the above data. This also works for "normal" recordings made by MythTV, if your EPG data was not accurate for these values.

blootube-ng rework for future 0.25 release

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:05:00 +0200

As usual I will try to keep blootube-ng up to date. I added the search popup to the file and replaced quiet a few images with shapes and pushed the version number to 3.0 to reflect these changes.

Version 2.0 of Willi theme

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:38:00 +0200

I will stop posting compressed, tared versions of my themes as of today. The reason for it is, that I have started to develop for the future version 0.25 of MythTV and will stop developing for 0.24. The themes will all be available at github and are part of the automatic theme updates via new features added to the development branch. With version 0.25 you will be notified if you are using one of my themes if it changes. The Willi theme is the first to get an update, with and added search dialog for most buttonlists. Use Ctrl+S to access it. Willi is now officially version 2.0.

You will be able to get the 0.24 versions through github, too. Just select the branch 0.24-fixes.