It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new release from the Open Source team behind MythTV, but they’ve gone out and suprised everyone by released MythTV 0.19:

The major changes in this release are:

* LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching
* Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders
* Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress
* Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings
* Channel changes can be made across tuners without changing tuners manually first
* New popup keyboard simplifies setup using remote
* Preview schedule changes when making adjustments to recording schedules
* Added ability to control MythFrontend through a telnet socket
* Closed captioning support on PVR-250/350 (but not 150/500) cards, DVB subtitles, and other cards supporting VBI information.
* New theme (MythCenter), new plugin (MythFlix), and new contributed programs (mythlcdserver, mythwelcome)
* Signficantly overhauled MythWeb, please read the README for details and installation instructions
* Added a basic internal DVD player, removing the need to use Xine or Mplayer

Of course I know I’m not going to be popular saying this, but as much as its great they’ve updated MythTV it’s really starting to get old hat when you consider products like MCE and BeyondTV continue to get better and better….and of course they are a darn site easier to install as well

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