JP Vossen on 3 Apr 2008 02:02:51 -0700 |
Bottom line up front: I accidentally upgraded to MythTV 0.21 from 0.20, which caused some compatibility issues between client and server since both must speak the same protocol (31 --> 40). (Why it's not backward compatible is beyond me.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubuntu Side I just did a dist-upgrade on my Myth TV server, but I forgot that gutsy-backports was in my sources.list for some reason. I'm not sure if that is or was a Mythbuntu thing, or if I did that in a moment of insanity, but it's there. So I got libmyth-0.21-0 and so forth which is NOT compatible with Gutsy-regular libmyth-0.20-0. (There is no reason for this, except MythTV is perverse and will only talk to a Myth server using the *same* protocol, no backwards compatibility! That sucks. The mvpmc project has worked around that by simply hacking their client to lie and claim to use whatever protocol the server want, so it can be done.) Anyway, not a *big* deal, as I can just add gutsy-backports to my 2 MythTV client machines, pin them, and be happy. Which I did. But it was an unexpected and unpleasant surprise, even though I basically did it to myself. It also seems like themes got re-orged, as I had to go manually install mythtv-theme-mythcenter. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MythTV Side Everything I tested [1] worked OK except Weather. The Netflix has fixed the broken HTML code and also correctly displays cover shots now too. Weather is very different, and I find the new setup method very tedious and unintuitive. But once set up there's a really impressive list of stuff you can display though. For the local screens I needed to use "Pottstown"; for the maps and severe weather I use "Northeast". NOT intuitive, and you have to do it for each screen you want. OTOH, you can have as many different screens as you want, all set up however, which is really flexible. The "Searching ... Results: 0" at the bottom of the Weather "screens" setup page is also misleading. It hasn't finished searching yet, so there aren't zero hits, there are null hits. It should be just "Searching ..." then "Search Complete. Results: N". Also, the mythcenter add-on theme seems like it's buggy. Going into the weather screens setup on 2 out of 3 machines I tested there is a status dialog with no text in it, and the "loading..." screen for Weather (once set up) is broken. G.A.N.T. is the default theme, but I find that unbearably ugly. See also http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes_-_0.21 Just a note to hopefully save someone else a problem, JP [1] I tested watching live TV and recordings (with closed captions), payback from the MediaMVP using the mvpmc firmware, various InfoCenter, Manage/schedule recordings, and search functions, and probably more I'm forgetting. ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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