This is a DVB Frontend Status Monitor plugin for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i Project's homepage: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/ Latest version available at: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/ See the file COPYING for license information. Requirements: Ph.D. in Astro Physics and preferably a six-pack waiting in a fridge. Description: DVB Frontend Status Monitor is a plugin that displays a few signal quality parameters of the tuned channel on your screen. You can zap through all your channels and the plugin should be monitoring always the right frontend *fingers crossed*. A short message is shown at the bottom line to help the DVB card identification after each channel switch and OK press. 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 information). The other parts of plugin code are borrowed from the excellent OSD Picture-In-Picture plugin by Sascha Volkenandt and Andreas Regel . Props to Sascha for being brave enough to test this piece of junk and ofcourse for german translations. The bitrate calculation algorithm is copied from dvbstream application by Dave Chapman . Shortcomings / Todo list: - The current version is a kind of Proof In Concept to replace the old 'tech patch', so the internals will be eventually rewritten... if I'll find some spare time. - The plugin supports only those DVB cards with _one_ frontend (do any cards with multiple frontends even exist?), because I haven't yet figured howto do it without patching the VDR core. - Sometimes (read always) ttxtsubs plugin messes up the OSD - user should disable ttxtsubs, but closing and reopening the femon plugin might help as well. BTW. the same things happens with OSDTeletext plugin too :)