Difference between revisions of "ChangeLog"

Revision as of 19:25, 6 August 2007

Changelog since LinuxMCE 1.0

PowerFile and Ripping support:

• Added disc management for jukebox
• Added drive management
• Change pending tasks so non-plugin devices can have pending tasks, as needed for the jukebox ripping and identification
• Add threadedclass to multithreadincludes and start moving ripping from media plugin to disk drive
• Fixed ripping
• Fix unknown disc bulk ripping

Media (Xine Player, Media Plugin, Update Media):

• added media plugin retransmit on/off
• Fix media plugin retransmit ir codes with no media playing
• Fix eject problem
• Add event PlaybackStarted
• Add zoom & aspect ratio
• Supporting to play 2nd stream when 1st is broadcasting (actually when more than 1 is broadcasting)
• Added audio db capability
• Check out only need directories or to save disk space and speed up the process
• Improved usage of resources for Update Media
• Patch in UpdateMedia to work correctly with both mysql 5.0.24a and mysql 4.0.24
• Add stream id to all media commands

Orbiters and GUI

• Added Orbiter for MotoQ skeleton project
• Changes for Orbiter Smartphone 2005 using wifi
• Few more fixes for Orbiter ARMV4I
• Fixed "white screen" issue in OrbiterGL
• Cleanup in MeshFrame, MeshPainter, OpenGLGraphic, ObjectRenderer_OpenGL
• Fixed warnings in OrbiterGL; OrbiterGL project will treat warnings as errors
• Changes to compile with VS2005/Windows Mobile 2005 SDK
• Added Cleanup method to OpenGLGraphic class
• Fixed issue with previous cover art being visible for a movie with no cover art; this should also fix the icons issue from channels
• Fixed crash in OrbiterGL : specify if in RemoveChild you want to delete the frame automatically or not
• Fixed/disabled warnings in DCE. DCE project will treat warnings as errors. Tweaks in OrbiterGL : it won't repaint the screen if it's about to close
• Don't render the screen anymore if orbiter is quiting. This should speed up Orbiter to close
• Use SharedDesktop variable to use different Orbiter starting mechanism (defaults to dedicated desktop, for backwards compatibility)
• When pressing F7 in VW, got the "wizard done" screen
• Move orbiter's window to 0,0 after removing the window decorations
• No "Start AVWizard" or "Start Video Wizard" buttons under WIN32/WINCE
• Show pictures for recorded tv shows
• Added StatusOnLCD application
• If media has no chapters, doing jump +/- # of 'chapters' * 30 seconds
• Added "None" button to tv, receiver and other a/v devices
• Spelling corrected
• Switching screen saver off before starting playback

Installer and system setup:

• Added 2 new steps and a list of ubuntu mirrors. From one of the added steps you can choose a mirror and on the other step you can select the desired UI to use
• Kill NetworkManager as it interfears with our networking stuff. 2) Also disable kdm on a dedicated system
• Adding Kubuntu Cache cd script
• Add step for installing libdvdcss
• Disabled option to install lmce from internet
• First mirrors in sources.list will be our mirrors
• Install nvidia driver from the cache cd
• LMCE logo
• Fix for broken network when installing packages
• Restart after installing the nvidia driver
• Globally make xfwm4 the default WM
• mce-installer-CheckSystem.sh : script for checking packages before installing
• Check System Step
• Install nvidia drivers on diskless md first boot if they are needed
• Add the new UbuntuLiveCD step
• Install kubuntu-desktop in diskless image
• Enables/Disables composite extension at install time based on user's choise of UI version
• Moved Startup_DiskedMD from event.d to rc2
• Prevent kdm from starting at boot on diskless MDs
• Install video wizard videos on first boot
• Install nvidia glx before starting avwizard if we're running on a nvidia based system
• 'installation complete' message; show disk size next to device name
• Setup dhcp and the firewall at first boot

PnP

• Fix pnp of pvr usb
• Add setup for pvr usb2
• Add support for pvrusb2 capture cards
• Small fix to disable inactive cards on errors douring detection
• Add onkyo/pioneer pnp
• HAL changes for serial category, it is using readlink instead of HAL tree to detect the relationship between the leaves
• Hdhome run firmware
• Plug and play handle disabling devices that are not detected at boot
• Powerfile (ieee1394) support

Audio Video Wizard

• Fixed X display for AVWizard
• Added ability to toggle on the fly composite, masking or fullscreen/windowed mode using keys
• start AVWizard in runlevel 2
• AVWizard on diskless (no kdm, no startup scripts in rc2)
• Made AVWizard running under Windows
• Beep on remote connect
• Updated the resolutions
• Added support for tv standard
• Allow non-60hz DFP modes
• Removed TV standard heuristics
• Reduced lower value for horizontal sync range
• Default to 60hz from Wizard, not from script
• Changed DVI label
• Added refresh rate tollerance of +/- 1 Hz
• Get usb uirt working with av wizard

MythTV

• Fix myth query
• Some tweaks to the myth process to start it with app server, and to change the locking startup for myth plugin
• Set root user to mythtv group
• Redo the tv bookmarking
• Add root user to mythtv group for mds

General Improvements

• Added LogLevels to pluto.conf
• If pluto.conf has no LogLevels entry, add: LogLevels = 1,5,7,8
• ZWave support for BOCA dongles
• Make the progress bar pulsate while installing
• Modifications related to crontab
• Command sequence for repacking ivtv-firmware
• Modified to run with feisty
• Enable swap partitions when you find them
• Dinamiclay add USE_HTTP_FETCHER since feisty misses it
• Use simple xorg.conf for startup progress when run on a dedicated system
• Added CurrentDesktop method to wmctrl
• Add PC Desktop command
• Separated NIS setup script; Updated NIS setup script to take DHCP into account and permit access from the external interface's IP; Updated DHCP client hooks to use new NIS setup script
• Remove Install LinuxMCE icon after LinuxMCE was installed
• Remove progress bar when copying files
• Added logging for desktop management
• Setup apt conf file for disked md
• Enable shared desktop on disked media directors
• Respawn lmce_launch_manager and X11 on Diskless MDs
• Added script to start KDE on demand
• Notify updates script
• Change firefox setting to avoid the popup that asks about 'restore session', instead of removing the cache every time
• Telecom changes which includes the timeout for ring extesions and some fixes
• Add Setup_UI function to set the right UI, not UI1 every time
• Automatically create md's
• Added new device template: Launch Manager
• Apply Update wrapper
• Save volume level when setting absolute value
• Finished remote assistance stuff
• New Update Mechanism, helper script
• Run the Apply Update in the boot seq
• Demonize LMCEUpdate_DownloadXML.sh so it won't get killed by cro
• Change 'Apply updates ? Yes/No' question to 'Apply updates? Yes/No/Later'
• Implement fallback for updates
• Add haltMDs event at reboot and shutdown
• Remove adept notifier
• Replace with the ip address of the asterisk server
• Remove xorg.conf from the diskless image so avwizard can rebuild it from scratch
• Restart kdm in the background so it doesn't get killed when KDE exits
• Add raid devices as storage options
• You are able to call an external number then you can make a conference (or transfer) with another phone from your installation
• Hide "KDE desktop" button under Win32/WinCE
• Corrected partition size calculation
• Add cp sources.list from hybrid to mds when creating them
• Put sample.mpg in the right place for UIdiag to play on diskless MD
• Use gray as background color for rooms with MD cells instead of black
• Report machine off on disked MD shutdown sequence
• Shortcut for the Kubuntu desktop
• When dcerouter does a reload it notifies all the devices
• Added logging to add software
• Smbfs instead of cifs

Other Fixes

• Fixed leak in SendMessage / xml format
• Fixed bug in DCE (HandleRequestSocket thread exiting without resettings m_bRunning variable)
• Fixed crash in Orbiter : on replaced handle, orbiter will exit gracefully
• Fixed crash OrbiterRenderer_OpenGL::DestroyGraphic
• Fixed script to return either 0 or 10, as expected by LaunchRemoteCommand.sh
• Fixed windows binaries
• Xorg can run more than once when orbiter restarts
• Small fix for Disk_Drive coredump
• Fixed crash in DCERouter's ExecuteCommandGroup
• Fix 'Low disk space' bug
• Fix Backup / Restore (from 44, 1.0 to 1.1)
• Fix disked hostname
• Fix for grandstream configuration file and it avoids hanging forever
• Fix broken epg guide
• Fix the samba share detection
• Fixes for hangup
• Fixed UIdiag to exit when ESCAPE key is press, not just for any key. This way we won't receive dummy keys for xine and quit for nothing
• Fix OrbiterGen bug
• Fix issue with pnp and camera crash in lighting plugin show
• Fix for SpeedDial Datagrid from speed dial screen
• Fixed bug: If disk is remove from pluto-admin, in reality it's still in the raid