VK7HSE Ramblings

Changes in this release are…

• Reimplemented menus/toolbars in UIManager

• Added menu accelerators

• Added Channel Up/Down and “Change View Mode” menu items

• Using a configurable deinterlacer rather than the hard-coded tvtime

• Added French translation

Available from

• me-tv-1.0.0.tar.gz

• me-tv_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid1_i386.deb

• me-tv_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1_i386.deb

• me-tv_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~karmic1_i386.deb

Also available from stable repository at https://edge.launchpad.net/~me-tv-development/+archive/ppa

A wiki page has been set up on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeTV_Testing to confirm feature functionality prior to moving towards version 1.0 Your help in testing features and reporting back on the wiki page would be appreciated.  Currently version 0.10.0~beta4 has resolved most bugs that have been reported against this project, but more testing is needed…  So if you have either a USB DVB device or a PCI DVB device and are using another digital television program could I ask for you to just give Me TV a try and report any issues that you may have! (imaging that last sentence in a groveling voice!)

Me TV is available from Launchpad (for both current stable & development versions) at https://launchpad.net/me-tv

Please assist with testing features and report back on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeTV_Testing

Features that are not confirmed to be working will be dropped from future releases! (we need your input)

* Now using a custom xine player

* Fixed mute on channel change issue

* Fixed video size issues on startup

Available from

me-tv-0.10.0~beta1.tar.gz

me-tv_0.10.0~beta1-0ubuntu1~karmic_i386.deb

me-tv_0.10.0~beta1-0ubuntu1~jaunty_i386.deb

me-tv_0.10.0~beta1-0ubuntu1~intrepid_i386.deb

Also available from development ppa at

Here’s an update on what has been worked on during this beta phase…

• Scheduled recordings/EPG events are now deleted when the channel is deleted

• An attempt to make the scan/import more friendly to duplicate channel names

• Made EPG save more efficient

• Fixed crash when adding a scheduled recording

To get yourself the current beta visit

Today I have just released Me TV 0.9.5 this update fixes some regressions that had been noticed by people in Europe (features that aren’t available here in Australia!)  I also got confirmation today that version 0.9.4 of Me TV has been included into Ubuntu Karmic. So although not the latest release, it’s better than the out dated release that is still in Debian Sid (me-tv-0.7.16-1) the update for Debian to be updated was released a while back but has yet to make it into Sid (?) So that’s great news for the small team that is Me TV! (as I always end these blog entries with URLs) for more detail on Me TV please visit https://edge.launchpad.net/me-tv 🙂

Today I have just released Me TV 0.9.5 this update fixes some regressions that had been noticed by people in Europe (features that aren’t available here in Australia!)  I also got confirmation today that version 0.9.4 of Me TV has been included into Ubuntu Karmic. So although not the latest release, it’s better than the out dated release that is still in Debian Sid (me-tv-0.7.16-1) the update for Debian to be updated was released a while back but has yet to make it into Sid (?) So that’s great news for the small team that is Me TV! (as I always end these blog entries with URLs) for more detail on Me TV please visit https://edge.launchpad.net/me-tv 🙂