2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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This is a DVB Frontend Status Monitor plugin for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
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Written by: R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i
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Project's homepage: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/
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Latest version available at: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/
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See the file COPYING for license information.
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Requirements:
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Ph.D. in Astro Physics and preferably a six-pack waiting in a fridge.
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Description:
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DVB Frontend Status Monitor is a plugin that displays a few signal quality parameters
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of the tuned channel on your screen. You can zap through all your channels and the
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plugin should be monitoring always the right frontend *fingers crossed*. A short
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message is shown at the bottom line to help the DVB card identification after each
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channel switch and OK press.
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The plugin is based on a neat console frontend status monitor application called
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'femon' by Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de> (see DVB-apps/szap/femon.c for
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further information). The other parts of plugin code are borrowed from the
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excellent OSD Picture-In-Picture plugin by Sascha Volkenandt <sascha@akv-soft.de>
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and Andreas Regel <andreas.regel@powarman.de>. Props to Sascha for being brave
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2004-02-26 03:20:00 +01:00
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enough to test this piece of junk and ofcourse for german translations. The bitrate
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2004-02-27 03:20:00 +01:00
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calculation algorithm is originally copied from dvbstream application by Dave Chapman
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2004-02-26 03:20:00 +01:00
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<dave@dchapman.com>.
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2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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Shortcomings / Todo list:
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- The current version is a kind of Proof In Concept to replace the old 'tech
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patch', so the internals will be eventually rewritten... if I'll find some
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spare time.
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- The plugin supports only those DVB cards with _one_ frontend (do any cards with
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multiple frontends even exist?), because I haven't yet figured howto do it without
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patching the VDR core.
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- Sometimes (read always) ttxtsubs plugin messes up the OSD - user should disable
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2004-02-27 03:20:00 +01:00
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ttxtsubs, but closing and reopening the femon plugin might help temporarily as well.
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Btw., this same thing happens with OSDTeletext plugin too :)
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- The plugin GUI is designed for small fonts, so stable vdr-1.2.6 users should consider
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the ElchiAIO4a+ patch to maximize the *wow* effect :)
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