Backported changes and fixes from version 0.1.6.

README

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ DVB Frontend Status Monitor is a plugin that displays some signal information
 parameters of the current tuned channel on OSD. You can zap through all your
 channels and the plugin should be monitoring always the right frontend. The
 transponder and stream information are also available in advanced display modes.
-User can switch between different display modes by pressing 'OK' key.
 
 The plugin is based on a neat console frontend status monitor application
 called 'femon' by Johannes Stezenbach (see DVB-apps/szap/femon.c for further
@@ -31,8 +30,8 @@ Metzler Brothers.
 Terminology:
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------
-|## Channel Name ############################# DD 16:9 PAL ##|
-|[=====Signal Strength in %  =============|=================]|
+|## Channel Name ######################### [DD][AR][VF][A][D]|
+|[=====Signal Strength in % ==============|=================]|
 |[=====Signal-to-Noise Ratio in % ========|=================]|
 | STR: #0000 (0%)       BER: #00000000       Video: 0 Mbit/s |
 | SNR: #0000 (0%)       UNC: #00000000       Audio: 0 kbit/s |
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ SNR     - Signal-to-noise ratio
 BER     - Bit error rate
 UNC     - Uncorrected blocks
 Video   - Calculated video bitrate in Mbit/s
-Audio   - Calculated audio / AC-3 bitrate in kbit/s (only first PID)
+Audio   - Calculated audio / AC-3 bitrate in kbit/s
 
 LOCK    - Everything's working...
 SIGNAL  - Found something above the noise level
@@ -52,15 +51,31 @@ CARRIER - Found a DVB signal
 VITERBI - FEC (forward error correction) is stable
 SYNC    - Found sync bytes
 
+DD      - AC-3 stream (optional)
+AR      - Aspect Ratio: 1:1/4:3/16:9/2.21:1 (optional)
+VF      - Video format: PAL/NTSC (optional)
+A       - Audio track: 1..2 (optional)
+D       - Device number: 0..3 (optional)
+
+Controls:
+
+ChanUp/ChanDn - Switch channel up/down
+Up/Down       - Switch channel up/down
+0-9           - Select channel
+Ok            - Switch between display modes: basic, transponder, stream, AC-3
+Right/Left    - Switch to next/previous device that provides the current channel
+Green         - Select language (APID)
+Back          - Exit plugin
+
 Installation:
 
 cd /put/your/path/here/VDR/PLUGINS/src
-tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-femon-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
+tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-femon-X.Y.Z.tgz
 ln -s femon-X.Y.Z femon
 cd /put/your/path/here/VDR
 make
 make plugins
-./vdr -Pfemon
+./vdr -P femon
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -71,3 +86,10 @@ Notes:
   ttxtsubs, but closing and reopening the femon plugin might help temporarily as
   well. Btw., this same thing happens with OSDTeletext plugin too :)
 - Disable the stream analyze to speed up heavy zapping sessions.
+- The signal strength and signal-to-noise ratio values are comparable only
+  between the same brand/model frontends. Due to the lack of proper frontend
+  specifications those values cannot be calculated into any real units.
+- Shrinked OSD is available for NTSC users: make NTSC_SYSTEM=1
+- The device switching feature is still non-functional.
+
+"Femon - A real womon who lives according to her natural feminine inclinations."