The format of the weekly updates is changing. First, the weekly updates will no longer be weekly. They will be as often as progress allows (when there is news, it will be here). Second, the weekly updates will no longer contain all of the information from the previous week. You’ve told us that it is hard to read/see what is new, and we’ve listened. Starting today, the new format will only contain information that is new since the previous update. We’ll continue to have the old format on a different page, so it’s still easy to see the status of everything, but updates to that page may be less often.

As I mentioned earlier, we’ve set some goals for 13.04. If you have reviewed the work items below, you can see we’re quite ambitious for the upcoming development cycle. If you would like to assist in any of the work items (or you have other things you’d like to work on) you can usually find the person working on the work item (the nick listed in [ ] ) in our IRC channel ( #ubuntu-tv ) on irc.freenode.net. You can also post any questions or comments on the Ubuntu TV mailing list: ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Work Items:
[mhall119] Setup communication between community and Unity dev team
[mhall119] Setup weekly meetings and announce on ML
[mhall119] Make a new TV development branch based on Unity trunk
[mhall119] Coordinate Unity API changes necessary to support TV
[bobweaver] Implement TV Launcher
[bobweaver] Implement TV Dash
[bobweaver] Implement Program Guide CategoryRenderer
[bobweaver] Implement TV HUD
[bobweaver] Implement TV Indicators
[popey] Ask about creating regular ISOs from TV PPA and hosting
[tgm4883] Define what lenses and scopes will be used
[tgm4883] Define what data needs to be passed between Scopes and Renderers
[tgm4883] Build DVR lens
[tgm4883] Build lens for guide data
[tgm4883] Build scope for guide data from mythtv
[tgm4883] Extend the current mythtv scope (and have it use the DVR lens)
[tgm4883] Extend the mythtv services api python file to interface with all of the mythtv services
[tgm4883] Get some mythtv API services added upstream
[foxbuntu] Documentation/guide for installing/configuring mythtv-backend
[unassigned] Settings lens

You can always find the progress of individual work items in the Ubuntu TV Blueprint

Thanks,

Your Ubuntu TV team

1. Re-creating the TV user interface using the Nux toolkit (Unity 3D) instead of Qt/QML (Unity 2D).
2. Integrating a full MythTV backend into the TV UI, meaning live TV tuning (EPG) and recording infrastructure.
3. Researching and finalizing the hardware acceleration of GStreamer video sinks for nVidia, Intel and AMD graphic cards. This not only will enable the TV to have hardware accelerated video playback, but also anything on the Ubuntu desktop that is built using GStreamer.

When / Where

• Work can begin immediately, but know that more details will be discussed at the upcoming UDS in Copenhagen. If you’re at UDS, please attend the session. If you can’t make it in person, feel free to attend the session remotely.
  • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-tv-development
• The design specification used to create the prototype shown at CES is being provided to guide the re-creating in Unity 3D and Nux.  Following this spec will ensure that the community’s efforts are inline with Canonical’s goals, and will ultimately be merged into upstream Unity.

Hardware acceleration information

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API
• http://gitorious.org/~sreerenj/vaapi/sree-gstreamer-vaapi

Nux toolkit documentation

• http://unity.ubuntu.com/nux/
• https://launchpad.net/nuxplayground

Unity development information

• http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/development/unity/

Ubuntu TV User Interface Design Spec

• TV Design Spec

MythTV backend integration preview into Ubuntu TV UI

• https://plus.google.com/u/0/106897287303034019719/posts/aJN4PE2TNsK

Help

• Thomas Mashos (tgm4883 on freenode) and Joseph Mills (bobweaver on freenode) will be taking the community lead for this project. You can find them in #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net
• Live Unity and Nux help can be found in #ubuntu-unity on freenode as well
• Post all other questions to the Ubuntu TV mailing list: ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

New: Changes since last week are in bold.

Current Status (subject to change)

• General
  • Since the 12.10 cycle is past feature freeze, most teams have switched to bug fixing as new features are no longer accepted this cycle.
• Nux
  • An OpenGL toolkit used by Unity (including Ubuntu TV) to draw and render the launcher, Dash and HUD.
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D is deprecated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D. Much of this work is included in the 12.10 Ubuntu desktop. Currently the transition is approximately 60% complete.
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but probably what you would expect from a media center: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Work on lenses/scopes benefits all Unity (that’s the joy of Unity), so improvements for one area are seen across all form factors.
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community

• The TV team is hard at work helping to implement the Unity Previews user experience for 12.10 which will directly benefit the TV UI.
  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/say-hello-to-unitys-newest-feature-previews
  • Give the latest Unity Previews code a try (requires Unity 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.10): https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging
  • Jim Hodapp has committed (revision 57) his video preview work to the remote-videos trunk branch for unity-lens-video

• Metadata
  • Metadata (from videos, music files, images, etc) will be read into a fully indexed backend which is continually updated based on monitored file system changes.
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata

• Grilo plugin for TMDB has been committed upstream and is available in the 0.2.2 release of Grilo (check the PPA).
  • Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
  • Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)
• Community member contributions
  • Ubuntu TV Testcard (Thomas Mashos) is awaiting review to get into the official repos. To try it out now, a deb is available for install. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.

• Community lenses and scopes made for Unity should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.
• Mythbuntu developer Thomas Mashos has been working on a MythTV scope for the videos lens. Currently still working on how TV episodes will be presented. Movies will be presented like this.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Remote controls
  • Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• UDS-R – 13.04(Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • October 29th – November 1st
  • Ubuntu TV sessions being planned (check the client track) and will be publicly posted before UDS begins (most likely in the next few weeks)
  • Ubuntu TV work expected to ramp up during this cycle as Unity 3D transition should be finished
  • Sponsorship invites were sent out September 4th. If you did not receive an invite we encourage you to register and participate remotely (also, check your SPAM folder as it’s been known to show up there)

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
  • Look at grilomm for a start of a C++ binding. Needing someone to complete this work.
• We’ve already seen some awesome things done with Previews (such as the Wikipedia and Photos Previews by David Callé). Would really like to see what people can do to take advantage of the new Previews framework, specifically in a TV context.
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.

New: Changes since last week are in bold.

Current Status (subject to change)

• General
  • Since the 12.10 cycle is past feature freeze, most teams have switched to bug fixing as new features are no longer accepted this cycle.
• Nux
  • An OpenGL toolkit used by Unity (including Ubuntu TV) to draw and render the launcher, Dash and HUD.
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D is deprecated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D. Much of this work is included in the 12.10 Ubuntu desktop. Currently the transition is approximately 60% complete.
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but probably what you would expect from a media center: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Work on lenses/scopes benefits all Unity (that’s the joy of Unity), so improvements for one area are seen across all form factors.
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community

• The TV team is hard at work helping to implement the Unity Previews user experience for 12.10 which will directly benefit the TV UI.
  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/say-hello-to-unitys-newest-feature-previews
  • Give the latest Unity Previews code a try (requires Unity 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.10): https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging
  • Jim Hodapp has committed (revision 57) his video preview work to the remote-videos trunk branch for unity-lens-video

• Metadata
  • Metadata (from videos, music files, images, etc) will be read into a fully indexed backend which is continually updated based on monitored file system changes.
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata
  • Grilo plugin for TMDBhas been written. Commit to Grilo upstream is waiting upstream approval
  • Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
  • Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)

• Community member contributions
  • Ubuntu TV Testcard (Thomas Mashos) is awaiting review to get into the official repos. To try it out now, a deb is available for install. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.
  • Community lenses and scopes made for Unity should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.
  • Mythbuntu developer Thomas Mashos has been working on a MythTV scope for the videos lens. Currently still working on how TV episodes will be presented. Movies will be presented like this.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Remote controls
  • Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• UDS-R – 13.04 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • October 29th – November 1st
  • Ubuntu TV sessions being planned (check the client track) and will be publicly posted before UDS begins (most likely in the next few weeks)
  • Ubuntu TV work expected to ramp up during this cycle as Unity 3D transition should be finished
  • Sponsorship invites were sent out September 4th. If you did not receive an invite we encourage you to register and participate remotely (also, check your SPAM folder as it’s been known to show up there)

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
  • Look at grilomm for a start of a C++ binding. Needing someone to complete this work.
• We’ve already seen some awesome things done with Previews (such as the Wikipedia and Photos Previews by David Callé). Would really like to see what people can do to take advantage of the new Previews framework, specifically in a TV context.
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.

New: Changes since last week are in bold.

Current Status (subject to change)

• General
  • Since the 12.10 cycle is past feature freeze, most teams have switched to bug fixing as new features are no longer accepted this cycle.
• Nux
  • An OpenGL toolkit used by Unity (including Ubuntu TV) to draw and render the launcher, Dash and HUD.
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D is deprecated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D. Much of this work is included in the 12.10 Ubuntu desktop. Currently the transition is approximately 60% complete.
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but probably what you would expect from a media center: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Work on lenses/scopes benefits all Unity (that’s the joy of Unity), so improvements for one area are seen across all form factors.
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community

• The TV team is hard at work helping to implement the Unity Previews user experience for 12.10 which will directly benefit the TV UI.
  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/say-hello-to-unitys-newest-feature-previews
  • Give the latest Unity Previews code a try (requires Unity 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.10): https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging
  • Jim Hodapp has committed (revision 57) his video preview work to the remote-videos trunk branch for unity-lens-video

• Metadata
  • Metadata (from videos, music files, images, etc) will be read into a fully indexed backend which is continually updated based on monitored file system changes.
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata

• Grilo plugin for TMDBhas been written. Commit to Grilo upstream is waiting upstream approval
  • Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
  • Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)
• Community member contributions
  • Ubuntu TV Testcard (Thomas Mashos) is awaiting review to get into the official repos. To try it out now, a deb is available for install. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.

• Community lenses and scopes made for Unity should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Remote controls
  • Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• UDS-R – 13.04 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • October 29th – November 1st
  • Ubuntu TV sessions being planned (check the client track) and will be publicly posted before UDS begins (most likely in the next few weeks)
  • Ubuntu TV work expected to ramp up during this cycle as Unity 3D transition should be finished

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
  • Look at grilomm for a start of a C++ binding. Needing someone to complete this work.
• We’ve already seen some awesome things done with Previews (such as the Wikipedia and Photos Previews by David Callé). Would really like to see what people can do to take advantage of the new Previews framework, specifically in a TV context.
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.

New: Changes since last week are in bold.

Current Status (subject to change)

• Nux
  • An OpenGL toolkit used by Unity (including Ubuntu TV) to draw and render the launcher, Dash and HUD.
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D is deprecated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D. Much of this work is included in the 12.10 Ubuntu desktop. Currently the transition is approximately 60% complete.
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but probably what you would expect from a media center: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Work on lenses/scopes benefits all Unity (that’s the joy of Unity), so improvements for one area are seen across all form factors.
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community

• The TV team is hard at work helping to implement the Unity Previews user experience for 12.10 which will directly benefit the TV UI.
  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/say-hello-to-unitys-newest-feature-previews
  • Give the latest Unity Previews code a try (requires Unity 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.10): https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging

• Metadata
  • Metadata (from videos, music files, images, etc) will be read into a fully indexed backend which is continually updated based on monitored file system changes.
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata

• Grilo plugin for TMDB has been written. Commit to Grilo upstream is waiting upstream approval
  • Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
  • Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)
• Community member contributions
  • Ubuntu TV Testcard (Thomas Mashos) is awaiting review to get into the official repos. To try it out now, a deb is available for install. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.

• Community lenses and scopes made for Unity should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Remote controls
  • Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• UDS-R – 13.04 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • October 29th – November 1st
  • Ubuntu TV sessions being planned (check the client track) and will be publicly posted before UDS begins
  • Ubuntu TV work expected to ramp up during this cycle as Unity 3D transition should be finished

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
  • Look at grilomm for a start of a C++ binding. Needing someone to complete this work.
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.

Changes since last week

• Unity 2D has been removed. Unity 3D is the future, and it is now. What this means for Ubuntu TV is that the foundation is in place. There are aspects of the TV UI that still need to be ported to Unity 3D.
• The TV team is hard at work helping to implement the Unity Previews user experience for 12.10 which will directly benefit the TV UI.
  • http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/say-hello-to-unitys-newest-feature-previews
  • Give the latest Unity Previews code a try (requires Unity 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.10): https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging

Current Status

• Nux – a widget/graphics library created by Canonical
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D was depreciated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D
  • Standalone mode is working which is necessary for the TV form factor. Force into standalone mode by specifying –force-tv on the command line when starting Unity
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
  • Continued progress removing Qt and replacing with Nux
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but likely: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community
• Metadata
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata
  • Transitioning away from .nfo files (and the XBMC dependency) to keeping metadata in an indexed database

• Grilo plugin for TMDB has been written. Commit to Grilo upstream is waiting upstream approval
• Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
• Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)
• Community member contributions
  • Thomas Mashos has made Ubuntu TV Testcard available via a deb. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.
  • bobweaver has been hacking away at code and adding some cool new features

• We’ve started to see work done by the community on regular Unity lenses and scopes that seem like they would work well in Ubuntu TV and should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• A development team within Canonical continues to work on the Unity 3D transition

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
• Look at grilomm for a start of a C++ binding. Needing someone to complete this work.
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Community/Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.

Changes since last week

• Grilo plugin for TMDB is in the queue waiting to be merged into git repository
• The Ubuntu TV Testcard utility has been submitted for inclusion in the 12.10 repositories.
• If you are interested in helping with the project in any way, be it programming, documentation, ideas, etc please email the Ubuntu TV list (link below) or join us on IRC at irc.freenode.net in the #ubuntu-tv channel. We look forward to working with you in the community.

Current Status

• Nux – a widget/graphics library created by Canonical
• Unity 3D transition status
  • Since Unity 2D was deprecated for Ubuntu 12.10, much work is being done to port Ubuntu TV to Unity 3D
  • Standalone mode is working which is necessary for the TV form factor. Force into standalone mode by specifying –force-tv on the command line when starting Unity
  • For TV’s Unity, launchers no longer track the status of applications, nor will the associated lenses be loaded
  • Continued progress removing Qt and replacing with Nux
• Lenses/scopes
  • Undecided, but likely: Video, Music, DVR, Pictures
  • Accepting recommendations on scopes from the community
• Metadata
  • Will use Grilo framework to get metadata into Ubuntu TV as well as provide a consistent API to query and retrieve metadata
  • Transitioning away from .nfo files (and the XBMC dependency) to keeping metadata in an indexed database

• Grilo plugin for TMDB has been written. Commit to Grilo upstream should happen soon
• Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
• Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)
• Community member contributions
  • Thomas Mashos has made Ubuntu TV Testcard available via a deb. Please provide feedback on the Ubuntu TV mailing list.
  • bobweaver has been hacking away at code and adding some cool new features

• We’ve started to see work done by the community on regular Unity lenses and scopes that seem like they would work well in Ubuntu TV and should require little or no modification for Ubuntu TV. We look forward to seeing more awesome community contributions.

• Jim is working on an example application that demonstrates live metadata searching using Nux to render the UI
  • This is the beginning of the place to experiment with metadata retrieval from Unity which will set the stage for what Ubuntu TV metadata retrieval will look like for the product in general
  • The basic app is working and can go public once an internal library that it uses is publicly released
• Michał continues work on remote control integration
  • The current plan is to have remote button presses appear like regular keystrokes
• A development team within Canonical continues to work on the Unity 3D transition

Help wanted

If you want to get involved, please leave us a comment below so multiple people aren’t working independently on the same things.

• Accepting any Grilo plugins to retrieve online metadata (see Writing plugins for Grilo)
• Advanced: accepting a C++ binding for Grilo
• Please join #ubuntu-tv on irc.freenode.net to discuss if you’re interested in either of these two areas of help

Get involved

• On irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-tv
• Our mailing list at ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net

Jim Hodapp (Canonical) and Thomas Mashos (Community/Mythbuntu) work together each week to get this information out. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions about the format or content in these weekly updates feel free to email Thomas Mashos.