MythTV 0.27.4 released, install in Linux Mint and Ubuntu based distro

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MythTV 0.27.4 released, install in Linux Mint and Ubuntu based distro

MythTV is an digital video recorder application. It is ideal for watching and recording television programs and has many plugins that can increase Myth-TV’s power.

Changes in MythTV 0.27.4 :

• avcodec/dirac_arith: Fix build with PIC and stack-check options
• avcodec/utvideodec: Increase vlc len
• Revert two backports to release/1.2 that broke fate.
• Show duration for large asf files as written in the file header.
• Ignore IPv6 settings value if it’s invalid
• Don’t attempt to play the video streams for mp3, flac, off and m4a container.
• Properly allocate VDPAU PiP video buffers and fix memory leak
• Fix memory leak
• Audio: Abort Drain if audio device is in pause
• bump FFmpeg to 1.2.7
• Fix PiP when using OpenGL output
• Ignore DMG mounted image
• Mythmedatalookup: set PYTHONPATH so mythmedatalookup can be started on its own
• Make sure to pass season and episode to tv grabber.
• Use myth coding style
• Mythmetadatalookup: Make sure we follow the exact same logic as we had prior e82754a7041d3988a8361535460d12a47742c65b
• Mythmetadata: Simplify code with a GetGrabber utility member
• Do not wait too quickly when reaching EOF
• Revert "Player: Increase OpenFile timeout to allow playing encrypted isos on a remote FE"
• Player: Increase OpenFile timeout to allow playing isos/DVD on a remote FE
• Revert "Fix 0b9470c Fix fileringbuffer locking..."
• metadata: fix crash should grabber not be defined
• metadata: get around grabber incorrectly set to an empty string
• metadata: do not use grabber cache if not initialised
• metadata: Properly clean inetref when searching for collection
• metadata: Properly separate TV title/subtitle search from inetref/subtitle search
• metadata: if video type not known, try both movie and television grabber
• CoreContext: Fix IsThisHost
• metadata: do not use script name for artwork file name
• CoreContext: Fix IsThisHost
• metadata: uses _ as separator in inetref in place of :
• metadata: Fix broken retrieval for screenshots
• metadata: fix stray declaration
• metadata: Fix GetGrabber
• metadata: also set collectionref to new format
• metadata: no need to re-run the search when a match has already been found
• metadata: properly handle media search type if we already have an extended inetref.
• corecontext: QHostAddress::isNull() appears buggy
• metadata: clear error state once an error has been propagated
• metadata: add getStorageGroupName 

For more information on the major Latest MythTV Changes in the upcoming version 0.27.4 please consult this page.

To Install MythTV 0.27.4 in Linux Ubuntu (13.04, 13.10, 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and ubuntu derivative system via PPA's, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.27
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mythtv

Before the installation is finished, you will be prompted to insert a root password for the MySQL database twice.

Optional, to remove mythtv, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove mythtv

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