MythBox is a MythTV frontend for XBMC.

Features

• Watch recordings with commercial skipping
• Watch Live TV
• Create and update recording schedules
• Fanart from tvdb.com, themoviedb.org, imdb.com and Google image search.
• Season and episode info from tvrage.com and tvdb.com
• View upcoming recordings
• Enhanced program guide
• View tuner and job queue info
• Compatible with MythTV 0.24
• Add your own public Twitter feeds
• Move comm flagging jobs to the front of the queue
• Trigger user jobs, comm flagging, or transcoding for a recording

Install

• Launch XBMC (Eden 11.0 BETA1 required)
• Navigate to System > Add-ons > Get Add-Ons > XBMC.org Add-ons > Video Add-ons > MythBox > Install

Platforms

MythBox 1.1.0 1/8/2012

New

• Support for XBMC 11.0 BETA (Eden)
• A thumbnail for which there is no associated recording is automatically deleted
• Added 'Refresh Fan Art' button to the Recording Details > Advanced menu
• IMDbPY 4.7
• TVRage 0.3.2
• MythTV protocols 66 - 70 (based on patch from mitch capper)
• iOS device support (verified on IPad 1)

Fixed

• EPG was broken for Python 2.7
• Re-record button on coverflow popup fixed
• Loading of persistent TVRage metadata failed on file corruption
• EDEN Fixed crash on startup
• EDEN Support for Apple Remote menu button
• Bunch of other minor bug fixes

MythBox 1.0.3 5/9/2011

New

• Recordings Window
•  Issue 128  - Recordings grouped by title
• Wallpapers from TVDB/TMDB added as backdrop

• Recording Schedules Window
• Added # Recorded column
• Sortable by Title, # Recorded, or Priority

• Recording Schedule Dialog
•  Issue 155  - Added User Jobs
• Added Recording Profile

• TV Guide Window
• Selecting a program that is currently playing starts Live TV
• Selecting a program with a schedule edits the schedule
• Selecting a program with no schedule creates a schedule
• Added banners from TVDB to the program details (bottom)

• Watch TV Window
• Added banners from TVDB to each channel

• Upcoming Recordings Window
• Launches faster (smart caching)

• Settings Window
•  Issue 111  - Stream recordings directly from the backend by selecting MythTV > Enable Streaming
• Advanced tab - Log location add as help text
• Playback tab - Editable values for seeking during playback
• Small Skip Forward
• Small Skip Backward
• Big Skip Forward
• Big Skip Backward

• Removed dependency on ffmpeg for determining recording framerate
• Google Image Search updated with API key and size restrictions
• Slovak translations - tnx Juraj Belobrad

•  Issue 161  - schedule from TV Guide impossible if show category contains (french) accented characters
• Some 1080i ATSC recordings from a HD Homerun were incorrectly getting commskipped due to incorrect fps detection
• Twitter newsfeed no longer renders linebreaks which were causing multiline output

MythBox 1.0.2 1/25/2011

New

•  Issue 148  - Dutch translations (tnx Fred van Zwieten)

•  Issue 145  - Fixed unicode error in Live TV window
•  Issue 147  - Changes to the recording schedule do not take effect immediately
•  Issue 149  - Help text on Settings screen gets truncated based on the translation
• Added support for ScheduleType.NOT_RECORDING
• TVRage grabber more resilient to incomplete season and episode information
• Google image search now works for programs with unicode chars in the title

MythBox 1.0.1 1/13/2011

New

•  Issue 132  - Support for MythTV 0.24 except for LiveTV (thx mitch capper)
• TVRage season and episode matching now uses the program's subtitle when the original air date search fails
• Added Episode column to the recordings screen
• TV Guide shows upcoming recordings in a different color
• Readme and FAQ viewable from MythBox > Settings > Readme and FAQ
• Czech translations (tnx Pavel Mlčoch)
• Swedish translations (tnx Magnus Gustafsson)
• Polish translations (tnx Michał Sawicz)

•  Issue 136  - mythbox.log moved to standard log dir on Mac OSX
•  Issue 141  - settings.xml parsing failed when removing mythboxfeed
•  Issue 142  - could not save new recording schedules that contained unicode chars
• TVRage metadata with missing seasons caused lookup failures
• Resuming from last position now works for ad-hoc recordings
• Thumbnail generation for 0.24 backends fixed
• Changing sort order or hitting refresh on some windows didn't re-invoke inflight rendering threads

MythBox 1.0.0 11/25/2010 (Requires XBMC 10.0)

New

•  Issue 125  - Added Frech translations (thanks ddekani)
• TVRage metadata caching for Season & Episode
• FFMpeg binary for Mac and Windows unbundled from installation zip and also removed from Settings screen. Now downloads on demand.
• New icon (tnx freezy)
• Installs directly from the XBMC Addons repo:

XBMC > System > Addons > Get Addons > XBMC.org Addons > Video Addons > MythBox

•  Issue 124  - Fixed parsing another variation of ffmpeg output
•  Issue 130  - Unable to play a recording when the cache lookup for a thumbnail fails
•  Issue 131  - Hours in timestamps are not displayed correctly on Macs
• Comm skips on HDPVR 1080i recordings incorrect because ffmpeg reports incorrect framerate

RC 2 (MythBox-RC2) Released on 10/11/2010

New

• Added Sort feature to the Upcoming Recordings screen
•  Issue 93  - Added splash screen
• FFmpeg output is cached for framerate extraction used by comm flagging
• Added 'Enable Aggressive Caching' to Settings->MythTV to pre-cache framerate and commercial break info
• Added Season and Episode to the Recording Details screen when available
• Added TVRage as a provider of TV show metadata (used for season & episode)
• Commercial breaks are only skipped once during playback (restarting playback in 'Play' only mode is no longer necessary if the comm break info is incorrect)
•  Issue 97  - Myth TV hostname and port are now queried directly from the database. Changed to read-only on the Settings->MythTV screen
•  Issue 106  - More responsive fanart lookup based on the current list selection in the Watch TV screen
•  Issue 109  - Enabled navigation from the MythBox Settings screen to the XBMC Settings screen
•  Issue 114  - Added slave backend hostname to the comm flag status on the Home screen
•  Issue 118  - MythTV 0.23-1 compatibility (Protocol 57)
•  Issue 121  - German translation updates (thanks to linuxluemmel)

•  Issue 96  - Translations updated (ready for non-English contributions)
•  Issue 98  - IP addresses are used throughout the codebase. No more host not found errors.
•  Issue 107  - Database connections are now closed when idle and reconnect on demand.
•  Issue 108  - Focus changes to Play+Skip button in Recording Details screen after user has already switched focus to another button
•  Issue 117  - Selecting the currently playing program in the TV Guide launched the Create Schedule window instead of starting Live TV
• Last focused recording was not restored correctly after a Refresh in the Recordings screen

RC 1 (MythBox-RC1) Released on 06/12/2010

• new : MythTV 0.23 support added - Protocol version 56
• new : PageUp/PageDn (Channel Up/Channel Down on the remote) in the Recording Details screen now navigates to the next or previous recording
• new : Automatic forwarding through a commercial break when you land in the middle of the commercial break
• new : Added selected position and total number of items to the Recordings, Schedules, and Upcoming Recordings screens
• new : Selecting a recording in the Upcoming Recordings screen launches the Recording Schedule editor
• new : UI responsiveness tweaked to run well on an Acer Aspire Revo (1.6Ghz Atom + NVidia ION GPU)
• new : TV Guide screen is back
• PgUp/PgDown keys now scroll up/down an entire page
• Clicking on a currently playing program starts Live TV

• new : Program cells in the TV guide have an HD overlay indicator when appropriate
• new : Added keybindings and remote control buttons section to the README
• new : Non-idle tuners bubble to the top of the tuners list when there are more than two tuners
• updated : Higher resolution thumbnails in Recording Details screen
• updated : Replaced autoexpire flag with original air date on the Recording Details screen
• updated : Faster fanart lookup on all screens + wait indicators
• updated : Library updates: tvdb_api 1.5, IMDbPy 4.5.1
• updated : After deleting a recording from the Recording Details window the Recordings window would take quite a while to update for a large number of recordings
• fixed : Requesting a recording's thumbnail from a slave backend didn't work
• fixed : UI tweaks when the active skin is confluence (radio button color, active selection in coverflow, etc)
• fixed : Unnecessary refresh of the program listings on the Watch TV screen after stopping live tv.
• fixed : XBMC crashes occasionally when exiting from MythBox
• fixed : Clicking on Edit Schedule in the Recording Details screen when the schedule no longer exists how shows an error message
• fixed : Attempting to watch live tv on tuner which is already recording on a slave backend no longer fails silently

Beta 7 (SVN 1798) Released on 01/17/2010

• new : Watch Recordings screen rewritten in WindowXML

• wip : TV Guide screen temporarily disabled -- work in progress
• new : Home screen coverflow now supports a context menu from which you can delete or re-rerecord the recording

• new : Twitter feed of mythbox news events added to the bottom of the home screen
• new : Public twitter feeds can be added to the news feed from Settings -> Advanced -> Twitter
• update : Codebase purged of all legacy windowing/skinning code (non-WindowXML)
• fixed : File cache thread safety issues fixed
• new : All screens with listboxes now restore the last selected listitem
• fixed : Unnecessary induced reject on all but the first myth connection negotiation
• updated : The 'x' in the mythbox logo fixed to match the xbmc logo (tnx Jezz_X)
• fixed : Home screen coverflow images scaled instead of stretched
• fixed : Delete recording thumbnail from cache when recording deleted or marked for re-record
• updated : Added Q15 to the FAQ - Connect to MySQL failed: 1156 (08S01): Got packets out of order,10000)
• updated : IMDbPy updated to download higher resolution box covers (4.5)
• new : Tuners table on home screen now shows the time of the next scheduled recording if the tuner is currently idle
• fixed : Cover flow on Home screen would not get updated when a recording was deleted from the Recording Details screen
• fixed :  Issue 70  - recordings not visible in Recording Schedules screen
• fixed :  Issue 79  - extra set of quotes needed in call to os.system(...) on Windows (tschutte)
• fixed :  Issue 80  - worker threads reaped before exiting script - prevents xbmc from dumping core
• fixed :  Issue 83  - recordings from all recording groups are shown instead of just the ones from Default

Beta 6 (SVN 1558) Released on 10/23/2009

• new : Home screen rewrite with coverflow of recent recordings, tuners, and jobs

• new : Recording schedules screen rewrite with fan art, schedule type, and priority

• new : Upcoming recordings screen rewrite with fan art, channel logos, etc

Beta 5 (SVN 1260) Released on 7/26/2009

• new : Live TV screen rewrite in WindowXML with fanart and channel logos

• new : Fanart support added for tvdb.org, themoviedb.org, imdb, and google image search.
• new : Added Fan Art section to settings screen with the ability to clear the cached fan art.
• changed: Bumped up max value for live tv buffer size to 20MB
• new : German translations (tnx to linuxluemmel.ch)
• new : Spanish translations (tnx to jkpalo@yahoo.es)
• fixed : Tweaks to work with mediastream skin

Beta 4 (SVN 1105) Released on 6/2/2009

• fixed :  Issue 37  - Startup failure on windows
• fixed :  Issue 2  - MySQL shared object library for amd64
• fixed :  Issue 31  - Channel duplication across multipe tuners with same guide data fixed in Live TV screen
• fixed :  Issue 30  - Fixed one terabyte+ diskspace reported incorrectly
• changed: Settings windows rewritten in WindowXML, help added, and save button removed

• changed: Live TV progress bar now includes buffer size while buffering
• updated: support for MythTV 0.22 (trunk) protocol 45

Beta 3 (SVN 1062) Released on 5/6/2009

• updated: support for MythTV 0.22 (trunk) procotol 44
• new : recording detail screen - added date/time to header
• new : recording detail screen - mini-video window replaces thumbnail when video is playing
• changed: recording detail screen - improved load time - WindowXML rewrite + async pre/post fetching + mythtv connection & db pooling
• new : recording detail screen - added ability to move a queued comm flag job to the beginning of the queue - MythTV doesn't even have this!
• new : recording detail screen - added number of commercial breaks, position in queue, or percent completed if still in progress

• changed: recording detail screen - enlarged thumbnail and added drop shadow; recording details re-arranged
• changed: recording detail screen - Play+Skip button has default focus if recording is comm flagged
• new : create/edit recording schedule dialog - start and end offsets can now be edited
• updated:  Issue 24  - Default buffer size is too low
• fixed :  Issue 25  - can't change recording schedule from tv guide
• fixed :  Issue 22  - support for ffmpeg 0.5 on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty