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[edit] MMS 1.1.0 - Release Candidate 8

1.1.0 Release Canditate 8 (RC8) has been released. It contains many bugfixes and a few new features, like the new weather and vbox plugin.

You can download MMS' from its homepage as a tarball.

[edit] MMS 1.1.0 - Release Candidate 5

1.1.0 Release Canditate 5 (RC5) has been released on 30th of March, 2008. It contains a bunch of bug-fixes.

[edit] MMS 1.1.0 - Release Candidate 4

1.1.0 Release Canditate 1 (RC1) has been released on 28th of February, 2008. It contains a over 50 bug-fixes.

[edit] MMS 1.1.0 - Release Candidate 3

1.1.0 Release Canditate 1 (RC1) has been released on 8th of February, 2008. It contains a weather plugin and few other new feathers, and many many bugfixes.

[edit] MMS 1.1.0 - Release Candidate 1

1.1.0 Release Canditate 1 (RC1) has been released an 16th of December, 2007. The version number 1.1.0 doesn't really reflect the dramatic change beneath MMS' surface. The core has been completele rewritten and the configuration has been split up into single config files. This is also due to the fact, that MMS is fully plugin-orientated and every single plugin has its own config file now.

Read here about all the new features and functionalities of MMS.

Screenshots and Videos are also available in this link-collection:

http://forum.mymediasystem.org/viewtopic.php?t=988
http://people.iola.dk/arj/2007/12/16/my-media-system-110-rc1-released/
http://mms.mymediasystem.net/index-9.html

[edit] MMS Stable Version: 1.0.8.5

The latest stable version (21 August 2007 (CEST)), 1.0.8.5 , is available here:

• See also project description at Freshmeat.

[edit] Changes

[edit] Version 1.0.8.4

[edit] Notes

From 1.0.8.3 to 1.0.8.4 no changes has been done to config

[edit] Features

None

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix imdb lookup
• Fix temporary memory leak when running in fullscreen with zoom to fullscreen enabled
• After loading a playlist always go to playlist
• Only allow load playlist inside audio or playlist
• Fix #102: Support more keys on numeric keypad
• Small memory leak fix
• Fix not being able to add all mp3 files in a topdir (incl. cd) to playlist
• More robust check for cd is present
• Don't start the SDL timer if it's not needed. This was causing the machine to wake up 1000 times a second. Now it's down to normal 80.
• Fix bug in pictures with page down + close to a page from last item
• Fix #137: Bug in recursive pictures view
• Fix #185: Various probs in recurse-slideshow
• Fix an infinite loop recursion in recursive pciture viewing
• Fix the case where when zooming the first time mms wouldn't correctly update the picture

[edit] Other

• Update da,de,it,es translations
• Add check for resolutions below 720x450 || 720x405 (not supported)

[edit] Version 1.0.8.3

[edit] Notes

From 1.0.8.2 to 1.0.8.3 the following changes has been done to config:

• add jpeg as picture type
• rename psxenu_enable to psxemu_enable
• Add flac to default audio filetypes
• Add new lirc_delay option

Better default values:

• The dvb default dvd player was changed
• Use alsa as default audio device for movie playback
• Changes the default value of: audio_mode_5d, audio_mode_5a, audio_mode_2
• Better default mplayer options when using sdl output

[edit] Features

• Restore volume on return from external program
• Support core 2 duo
• Add Italian translation
• Add script to launch daemon programs

[edit] Bugfixes

• Crash in search
• Fix black screen when coming back from external program
• Better lirc code
• Better forker for external programs
• Fix for coming back from running external application
• Fix alsaplayer volume bug
• Pressing play when in fullscreen caused a livelock
• When playing the last track inside fullscreen it would come back but the last played track will still be marked even though we have

stopped playing

• Correctly shut down when shutdown on last track has been turned on and a random mode is used.
• Fixed end not working in startmenu (for getting out of audio screensaver)
• Fix metadata retrievel when using Xine
• Fix make clean + make library-builders
• Fix play now crash when using German
• Fix tagline was missing from imdb results
• Fix imdb lookup of movies which only have 1 result
• Fix crash trying to play_now a dir that was empty
• Don't complain as loudly if commoncpp2 is not found
• Correct evdev patch

[edit] Other

• On wrong config version only show a warning, don't bail
• Translation updates: pt, ru, de, da
• Add tool: check-size to check the size of translation to make sure they are not too long

[edit] Version 1.0.8.2

[edit] New features

• New theme built from special-tailored icons by Andreas Saur
• Man pages
• Add support for multimedia keys
• Add bitrates to radio stations and add ability to specify minimum

bitrate in options

• Radio: add genre screen for easier finding stuff to listen to.

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix evdev
• Fix two bugs in audio
• Fix playnow

- Will now autosave the old playlist as 'autosaved' before clearing the playlsit

• Screensaver was not enabled when choosing add and play for a cd
• Fix options in 720x405
• move the volume bar up a little so that it don't clash with the random mode
• Several bugfixes to radio playback
• Gstreamer: Reset audio info before playing new track
• Fix crash in case of a malformed XML in EPG
• Make mms less likely to skip displaying seconds when playing audio
• Calculate correct border of half-drawn images
• Fix a bug in gstramer pause + play
• Load saved cd tracks correctly with gstreamer
• Fix two gstreamer bugs

- make play work - make end of track (play next) work better

• Fix imdb movie lookup
• Fix playback of movie on cd's with special chars in the name
• Take pause into account when stopping and starting external programs
• Fix shutdown on playback finished
• If exit in the middle of an epg_update then kill the updater
• Fix mobile layout for lirc
• Fix audio cd playback with gstreamer
• Create transparent thumbnails if needed
• Fix updater timeouts
• Fix screen corruption coming back from running external program
• Fix slideshow delay in pictures fullscreen
• Fix imdb so that it works with the new layout

[edit] Other

• Pressing second action inside second action menu closes the menu
• Change the keybinding of prev/next versus left/right in pictures

- left/right now goes to the next/prev picture - prev/next now rotates

• Translation updates
• Polish translation added
• For screensaver use playlist position in non-random modes and amount of played tracks in random
• When wrong theme version is found, explain what version mms expects
• Add COPYING file with all the COPYRIGHT stuff
• Fix README
• Make alsaplayer the default player again
• Implement page_up and down in epg
• Add mplayer dvd option to config needed to get smooth playback using dxr3.

[edit] Version 1.0.8.1

[edit] New features

• Add configure option to disable optimization to make it easier to copy it from one machine to another
• Add method to compile and install all library builders:

 make library-builders
 make library-builders-install

• Display the number of tracks played of all the tracks in the playlist
• Add play track to audio
• Implement two navigation improvements

 When on the second last row always go the next row, no matter how many elements it contains 
 Jump a screen instead of the configured jump in graphical modes. It's much more natural that it should work this way.

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix compile with some default things disabled
• Fix audio playback + start a game or play a movie deadlock
• Fix audio random modes
• Fix config top
• Fix loading volume
• Fix delete a track that was playing
• Fix if stop_on_clear = false and the last track was deleted the cover was missing
• Fix options i EPG for other languages
• Fix two bugs in movie imdb information handling
• Work around FUBAR drives
• Fix play_now
• Fix movie handling imdb info handling
• Massive performance improvement in SDL
• Make winamp random a little less random
• Fix widescreen TV resolution
• Don't show ending of files (*.X)
• Fix error message in movies when trying to play an empty folder
• Fix the handling of temporary locations
• Add folders is empty message to movies also
• Make secondary menu works fine in options fullscreen
• Support movies with missing covers
• Fix imdb downloading
• Add load playlist to secondary menu in audio add
• Fix recurse dirs == search in pictures secondary menu
• Fix bug with lirc + movie playbac
• Fix secondary menu for pictures
• Configure fix for commoncp2 1.5.1

[edit] Other

• Updated translations
• Add tv icon
• New busy icons
• New installation structure:

Config files are saved in /etc/mms/
Files that must be saved but are changed at runtime are stored in /var/lib/mms
Files which are generated at runtime but can be deleted without much trouble are stored in /var/cache/mms

• Display busy indicator in audio screensaver now that the "green" status is gone
• Make replay device a little more verbose
• Add audio device hints
• Two lines for names in Pictures
• Don't do too much trying to find a movie inside a dir
• Be a little smarter when reading files and folders

[edit] Version 1.0.8

[edit] New features

• Game support (emulators)
• TV viewing support (using VDR or tvtime)

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix a cache bug
• Fix running external program with SDL output using keyboard input
• Fix subtitles for movies
• Fix play all -> imdb view bug
• Fix crash on exit
• Fix audio pause + movie playback bug
• Fix bug in audio playback + movie playing
• Fix a couple of bugs in audio
• Fix bug: don't stop playing audio if queue is not empty
• Fix searching for two chars in a row on the same key
• Fix several audio bugs
• Don't pass translated subtitle languages to mplayer
• Fix bug download imdb info
• Fix searching imdb for the it crowd
• Fix deadlock when starting movie + playing audio
• Make volume bar work again
• Fix compilation of mms-audio-library
• Fix radio playback
• Fix bug in audio screensaver + stop

[edit] Other

• Updated translations
• Ability to use space when searching using lirc
• Remap action from rotate to zoom
• Better wording
• Make Xine audio new default audio player (alsaplayer is unmaintained)
• make imdb search navigation easier
• Save playlist position across sessions

[edit] Version 1.0.8 rc2

[edit] New features

• Add play now functinality. Thanks Pablito
• Rotate left and right using left and right keys :-)

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix not removing all links from imdb plot lines
• Fix zoom (works correctly with portrait style images and small images)
• Fix imdb titles starting with \n
• Fix busy indicator interfering with audio screensaver
• Disable X11 check, it wasn't working correctly
• Better try at fixing the Xine skipping problems. By giga_san.
• Fix crash when creating thumbnails and drawing
• Fix memory leak when doing thumbnails
• Fix crash in audio with random mode enabled
• Compile fix in renderer.cpp
• Fix alsaplayer slowness

[edit] Other

• Updated translations for da, de, cs, pt, sv, fr, es, fi
• Converted http downloading to use wget. WGET is now required for imdb and internet radio functinality
• Config option to disable imdb warning. Useful for e.g. music video folders

[edit] Version 1.0.8 rc1

[edit] Changes

• Add Finnish translation
• Improve the speed of pictures fullscreen dramatically
• Add secondary menu to pictures fullscreen
• Add secondary menu to load playlist screen
• Remove help screen (secondary menu superseeds it)
• Wrap around support in secondary menu
• Make volume persistent (between mms sessions)
• Added mms-pic-library. A library to offline create thumbnails for faster picture navigation
• Better default values for configure and options
• Install tailored configs based on configure paramters instead of just on default making it easier to get started.
• Add nxtvepg extraction scripts
• Put a box around covers in audio screensaver
• Simplify the graphical interface
• Ability to exclude diretories in pictures
• Don't try so hard to find cover (speeds up audio quite a bit for large folders)
• Add the ability to recurse folders in fullscreen pictures
• Add the ability to add all tracks inside a dir
• Add busy indicator
• Implemented a mode for lirc where the keys are mapped to a full keyboard like a mobile phone
• Update gstreamer to use 0.10 instead of 0.8 since it's much better
• Picture zooming support
• Prev/Next preview in pictures fullscreen
• Make the dvb device configurable

[edit] Bugfixes

• Fix imdb lookup
• Fix graphics bugs
• Fix bug in EPG
• Fix downloading covers for two files quickly after each other
• Fix audio screensaver bug
• Fix pictures fullscreen
• Fix title with newline in imdb search screen
• Fix pause in pictures clashing with pause in audio
• Fix track skipping with alsaplayer
• Fix volume reset with alsaplayer
• Fix bugs in audio load playlist
• Fix slowness in EPG
• Fix crash in search with lirc
• Fix search in 720x540
• Fix compile with local commoncpp2
• Fix cursor gone when leaving SDL fullscreen
• Don't fire new updater elements immediately
• Don't create empty ~/.mms dir with mms-audio-library
• Fix load playlist
• Fix options
• Fix crash in options when translations was too long
• Don't fail in themes on empty dirs
• Fix crash when searching + next
• Fix slowdown in audio in huge folders
• Fix crash when saving playlist
• Fix bug if audio folders have no dirs
• Fix graphics bugs with overlays
• Fix too long album titles
• Don't use imms info for web radios
• Fix crash when adding a radio station
• Don't show movie tagline if empty
• Fix compile on amd64 with gcc 4.1.1
• Don't let play, pause, next_track etc. disable the screensaver
• Correctly format long movie runtimes
• Support movie taglines with links in them
• Don't use a global orientation in pictures fullscreen
• Fix taglib configure test
• Red Hat 9 compile fixes
• Fix compile with graphical audio disabled

[edit] Other

• Xidle configure check
• Standardize secondary menu layout
• Update translations (da, de, sv, fr, pt, es, ru)
• Install translations with the correct permissions
• Clean up config
• Better names for actions
• Fetch the top500 stations
• Better spacing for movie ratings
• Display .0 for imdb ratings
• Make the number of rows and colums of a lcd display configurable
• Marked item in dialogs was too dark. Make them lighter

[edit] Version 1.0.7

[edit] Changes

• New Graphical Audio Mode
• Config option to set alsaplayer options
• Better documentation of the cdrom configuration line
• Massive performance improvements. Should be twice as fast in common cases.
• Check for sqlite (version) in configure
• automatic start of playback when adding a radio station
• Add some missing stuff to the themes file

[edit] Bugfixes

• Don't look up files in db when creating the list. This should improve performance in at least these two cases:
• Large folders with a lot of files
• Large playlists
• When setting random mode to 'intelligent', then trying to play a file in the playlist, mms could crash.
• Handle empty TV.xml files robustly
• Fix two bugs in audio playlist
• Fix empty channels in TV.xml files
• Fix make in library-builder
• Fix graphics bug
• Theme was missing movie marked so it looked funny