Version 1.7.29

Original announce message:
VDR developer version 1.7.29 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.29.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.28-1.7.29.diff

MD5 checksums:

a3f0ae42ba456aa1865c9ed065a64d80  vdr-1.7.29.tar.bz2
39db6b495210c293726126fbcba3e631  vdr-1.7.28-1.7.29.diff

WARNING:
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This is a developer version. Even though I use it in my productive
environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled
conditions and for testing and debugging.

The default skin "LCARS" displays the signal strengths and qualities of
all devices in its main menu. For devices that have an stb0899 frontend chip
(like the TT-budget S2-3200) retrieving this information from the driver is
rather slow, which results in a sluggish response to user input in the main
menu. To speed this up you may want to apply the patches from

   ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/Driver-Patches

to the LinuxDVB driver source.

From the HISTORY file:
- Added a missing template specification to the c'tor of cSortedTimers (thanks to Udo
  Richter).
- Fixed the background color of the Transfer Mode indicator bitmap in the LCARS skin.
- The LCARS skin now only displays devices that can actually receive channels, leaving
  out, for instance, pure replay devices (suggested by Reinhard Nissl).
- Now scaling down the Transfer Mode indicator bitmap in the LCARS skin in case it
  doesn't fit with the selected font size (reported by Reinhard Nissl).
- Fixed making LCARS the default skin.
- Adjusted the default values for OSD and font sizes to better fit HDTV.
- Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- Fixed the call to ChannelString() in cSkinLCARSDisplayChannel::SetChannel() (thanks
  to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- Removed DeleteEvent() from the EPG handler interface (turned out not to be useful)
  and replaced it with HandledExternally() (thanks to Jörg Wendel).
- Added SetComponents() to the EPG handler interface (thanks to Dirk Heiser).
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- Changed the button colors in the LCARS skin to better fit with the rest of the theme.
- Removed the gap from the main menu buttons in the LCARS skin.
- Fixed some copy&paste errors in PLUGINS.html (thanks to Winfried Köhler).
- The LCARS skin's main menu now only displays timers that are actually activated.
- Within the "Recordings" menu, pressing the '0' key now toggles sorting between
  "by time" and "by name". The selected sort mode is stored separately for each
  folder (provided you have write access to that folder).
  If a folder is newly created by a repeating timer, the sort mode for that
  folder is initially set to "by time".
- Fixed several spelling errors (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
- Fixed handling recording with more than two bonded devices.
- Fixed the type of MBperMinute in cVideoDiskUsage::HasChanged() (thanks to Andreas
  Mair).
- Setting the "broken link" or "TEI" flags when cutting recordings is now suppressed
  if the editing point merges two seamlessly fitting parts of the same stream (thanks
  to Torsten Lang).
- Fixed displaying messages in the LCARS skin.
- Fixed checking for a visible live programme in case a menu or the channel display
  is currently open.
- Changed some of the colors in the LCARS skin (you may need to delete the file
  lcars-default.theme from your themes directory to see these changes).
- The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Show channel names with source" can be used to
  turn on adding the source character to channel names whenever they are displayed
  (suggested by Ludi Kaleni).

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ Christian Jacobsen <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>
  for reporting a problem with multiple entries of the same subdirectory in the
  "Recordings" menu
 
-Andreas Mair <andreas@vdr-developer.org>
+Andreas Mair <amair.sob@googlemail.com>
  for reporting a short display of the main menu if a plugin displays its own OSD and
  is started through a user defined key macro
  for reporting a problem with extremely long summary fields in timers
@@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ Andreas Mair <andreas@vdr-developer.org>
  for fixing handling 3 and 4 byte UTF-8 symbols in Utf8CharGet()
  for fixing initializing the timer's flags in the cTimer copy constructor
  for reporting a crash in case CutRecording() is called from a plugin
+ for fixing the type of MBperMinute in cVideoDiskUsage::HasChanged()
 
 Olivier Jacques <jacquesolivier@hotmail.com>)
  for translating OSD texts to the French language
@@ -1141,6 +1142,7 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  to "Single"
  for fixing reduced bpp support for DVB subtitles
  for implementing "DVB Standard compliance" handling
+ for fixing the call to ChannelString() in cSkinLCARSDisplayChannel::SetChannel()
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
@@ -1304,13 +1306,17 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  for storing the original display size when handling DVB subtitles
  for reporting a problem with horizontal scaling of subtitles
  for fixing a buffer overflow in cFont::Bidi()
- for avoiding an unecessary call to Recordings.ResetResume()
+ for avoiding an unnecessary call to Recordings.ResetResume()
  for debugging a problem in handling the bitmap color depth for scaled subtitles
  for making subtitle PIDs be decrypted
  for making cEITScanner process new transponders before old ones, to make sure
  transponder changes are recognized
  for helping to debug switching into time shift mode when pausing live video
  for fixing a possible high CPU load when pausing replay
+ for suggesting that the LCARS skin should only displays devices that can actually
+ receive channels
+ for reporting that the Transfer Mode indicator bitmap in the LCARS skin may not
+ fit with small font sizes
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
@@ -1744,6 +1750,7 @@ Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
  for a patch that sets the start time of an edited recording to the time of the first
  editing mark
  for adding the option --outputonly to the dvbsddevice plugin
+ for adding a missing template specification to the c'tor of cSortedTimers
 
 Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
@@ -2151,7 +2158,7 @@ J
 Christian Wieninger <cwieninger@gmx.de>
  for suggesting to add cMenuEditStrItem::InEditMode()
  for his idea of going directly into the "Edit timer" menu for a timer created
- from the "Schedule" menu in case it starts withing the next two minutes
+ from the "Schedule" menu in case it starts within the next two minutes
  for reporting a problem with a format string in recording.c on 64bit systems
  for reporting a problem with the device selection in case of timer conflicts
  for a patch that fixed part of a crash in i18n character set conversion
@@ -2459,6 +2466,7 @@ Ulf Kiener <webmaster@ulf-kiener.de>
 
 J<EFBFBD>rg Wendel <vdr-ml@jwendel.de>
  for reporting that cPlugin::Active() was called too often
+ for adding HandledExternally() to the EPG handler interface
 
 Peter Pinnau <vdr@unterbrecher.de>
  for reporting that 'uint32_t' requires including stdint.h in font.h on some systems
@@ -2564,6 +2572,7 @@ Benjamin Hess <benjamin.h@gmx.ch>
 Winfried Koehler <w_koehl@gmx.de>
  for fixing finding new transponders
  for reporting a compiler warning in calculations involving FramesPerSecond()
+ for fixing some copy&paste errors in PLUGINS.html
 
 Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
  for adding the command line option --userdump to enable core dumps in case VDR
@@ -2864,6 +2873,8 @@ Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  for reporting a bug in checking for UTF-8 support in cFont::Bidi()
  for a patch that was used to implement caching the information whether a recording
  is stored on the video directory file system within the cRecording data
+ for suppressing setting the "broken link" or "TEI" flags when cutting recordings
+ if the editing point merges two seamlessly fitting parts of the same stream
 
 Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
  for some improvements to the Makefiles
@@ -2900,3 +2911,9 @@ Christian Richter <cr@crichter.net>
 
 Christian Kaiser <christian.kaiser@teleservice.com>
  for adding DeleteEvent() to the EPG handler interface
+
+Dirk Heiser <dirk-vdr@gmx.de>
+ for adding SetComponents() to the EPG handler interface
+
+Ludi Kaleni <ludi113@hotmail.com>
+ for suggesting to add the source character to channel names whenever they are displayed