Version 2.1.2

VDR developer version 2.1.2 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.2.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.1-2.1.2.diff

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WARNING:
========

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.

From the HISTORY file:
- Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- Fixed displaying DVB subtitles (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for helping to debug and
  understand subtitle page refreshes):
  + Fixed handling DVB subtitle fill region codes for 2 and 8 bpp.
  + Fixed handling pages without an explicit END_OF_DISPLAY_SET_SEGMENT.
    The FINISHPAGE_HACK is no longer necessary.
  + Fixed handling "page refreshes". The data is now parsed and stored closer to the
    DVB standard specs, introducing "object refs" and "region refs".
  + The debug output now goes into an HTML file named dbg-log.htm and shows the actual
    bitmaps (dbg-nnn.jpg) used to display the subtitles. That way it is much easier to
    see what's actually going on.
  + Fixed handling subtitles encoded as a string of characters (the very first
    character was always skipped).
- Fixed wrong initialization of Setup.PositionerSwing (reported by Arthur Konovalov).
- Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov).
- Fixed cleaning up old EPG events in case no epg data file is given (reported by
  Dave Pickles).
- Unified the internal sequence of actions when pressing the Blue and the Back key,
  respectively, during replay (reported by Thomas Maass).
- The Yellow button in the main menu no longer acts as "Pause" if "Pause key handling"
  is set to "do not pause live video" (suggested by Ulf Kiener).
- The code for distributing recordings over several video directories has been
  removed. VDR now by default assumes that the video directory is one big disk.
  If you absolutely need to use several separate disks to store recordings, you can
  write a plugin that uses the new cVideoDirectory API to implement the necessary
  functionality (see PLUGINS.html, section "The video directory"). You can copy the
  respective code from previous versions of videodir.c.
  IMPORTANT NOTE: If you write a plugin that implements a distributed video directory,
  =============== be sure to make cVideoDirectory::Rename() follow symbolic links!
                  This functionality was never implemented in VDR and it therefore
                  used a workaround in cutter.c. See the section marked with
                  // XXX this can be removed once RenameVideoFile() follows symlinks
                  in previous versions of cutter.c.
  + CloseVideoFile() is obsolete and has been removed.
  + The functions OpenVideoFile(), RenameVideoFile(), RemoveVideoFile(), VideoFileSpaceAvailable(),
    VideoDiskSpace(), RemoveEmptyVideoDirectories(), IsOnVideoDirectoryFileSystem() and
    PrefixVideoFileName() are now static members of cVideoDirectory and need to be called
    with the proper prefix.
  + The name of the video directory is now available through cVideoDirectory::Name().
- Added renaming and moving recordings and folders, editing a recording's priority and
  lifetime, and queueing cutting jobs (inspired by the "extrecmenu" plugin from Martin
  Prochnow).
  + The "Recording info" menu now has a new Blue button named "Edit", which opens a
    dialog in which several properties of the selected recording can be changed. It can
    be renamed or moved into another folder and its priority and lifetime can be
    modified (inspired by the "extrecmenu" plugin from Martin Prochnow).
    The new blue "Edit" button in the "Recordings" menu opens a dialog in which a folder
    can be renamed or moved. See MANUAL, section "Managing folders".
  + In the "Edit recording" menu the Yellow button ("Delete marks") allows you to delete
    all editing marks of the selected recording.
  + cCutter is no longer a static class. Cutting requests should now be invoked by
    calling RecordingsHandler.Add(ruCut, FileName). See the new cRecordingsHandler
    class in recording.h.
  + Cutting jobs are now placed in a queue (together with any move or copy jobs) and
    are processed one by one.
  + The new SVDRP command RENR can be used to rename a recording (suggested by Rolf
    Ahrenberg).
  + Note that in several places in the source code a "copy" operation is mentioned,
    however there is no user interface for this, yet.
- Changed some variable names in positioner.c to match the names used in the page with
  the explanation on vdr-portal.de.
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- Fixed writing group separators to channels.conf that contain a comma (reported by
  Eike Edener).
- Now also checking the source (in addition to the transponder) when setting the
  system time from the TDT, which avoids problems in case devices are tuned to the
  same transponder on different sources, and these broadcast different time data
  (reported by Torsten Lang).
- Changed cRecorder::Action() to use cTimeMs instead of time() to avoid problems with
  unjustified "video data stream broken" errors in case the system time is changed
  while a recording is active (reported by Torsten Lang).
- Revised the section on "Learning the remote control keys" in the INSTALL file to
  avoid the impression that there actually is a default remote.conf file, and to
  not use any alphabetic keys for special functions, so that they remain available
  for textual input.
- The function cRecordings::MBperMinute() now only takes into account recordings with
  less than 5 seconds per megabyte, in an attempt to filter out radio recordings
  (thanks to Harald Koenig). The result of this function was way off any realistic
  value in case there are many radio recordings in the video directory.
- Added maximum signal strength value for TechniSat SkyStar 2 DVB-S rev 2.3P (thanks
  to Guido Cordaro).
- Fixed an inconsistent behavior between opening the Recordings menu manually via the
  main menu and by pressing the Recordings key. In the latter case it automatically
  opened all sub folders to position the cursor to the last replayed recording, which
  is unexpected at this point (reported by Helmut Auer). You can still navigate to
  the last replayed recording (if any) by pressing Ok repeatedly in the Recordings
  menu.

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>
  for suggesting to read the epg.data file in a separate thread
  for some improvements to allowing the parameters PATH and NAME to the --dirnames
  command line option to be left empty to use the default values if only ENC shall be set
+ for reporting an inconsistent behavior between opening the Recordings menu manually
+ via the main menu and by pressing the Recordings key
 
 Jeremy Hall <jhall@UU.NET>
  for fixing an incomplete initialization of the filter parameters in eit.c
@@ -1169,6 +1171,8 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <Rolf.Ahrenberg@sci.fi>
  for fixing the call to ChannelString() in cSkinLCARSDisplayChannel::SetChannel()
  for a patch that was used to rename the "plp id" to a more general "stream id"
  and add support for DVB-S2 "Input Stream Identifier" (ISI)
+ for helping to debug and understand subtitle page refreshes
+ for a patch that was used to implement the SVDRP command RENR
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
@@ -1491,6 +1495,8 @@ Thomas Bergwinkl <Thomas.Bergwinkl@vr-web.de>
  for fixing handling the '0' key for switching between the last two channels
  for making cPatFilter::Process() check whether the channel exists before setting
  the PMT filter
+ for the Rotor plugin, from which code was used by a patch that was used as a base for
+ implementing support for positioners
 
 St<EFBFBD>phane Est<73>-Gracias <sestegra@free.fr>
  for fixing a typo in libsi/si.h
@@ -1699,6 +1705,7 @@ Arthur Konovalov <artlov@gmail.com>
  for reporting references to old *.vdr file names in MANUAL
  for reporting that the video stream type was set to 2 even if the vpid was 0
  for updates to 'sources.conf'
+ for reporting a wrong initialization of Setup.PositionerSwing
 
 Milos Kapoun <m.kapoun@cra.cz>
  for suggesting to skip code table info in SI data
@@ -2545,6 +2552,8 @@ Ulf Kiener <webmaster@ulf-kiener.de>
  for suggesting to add user defined key kUser0
  for suggesting to perform absolute jumps when replaying a recording (via the Red key)
  only if an actual value has been entered
+ for suggesting to make the Yellow button in the main menu not act as "Pause" if
+ "Pause key handling" is set to "do not pause live video"
 
 J<EFBFBD>rg Wendel <vdr-ml@jwendel.de>
  for reporting that cPlugin::Active() was called too often
@@ -2961,6 +2970,7 @@ Johan Andersson <jna@jna.pp.se>
 Dave Pickles <dave@pickles.me.uk>
  for adding support for "content identifier descriptor" and "default authority
  descriptor" to 'libsi'
+ for reporting that old EPG events are not cleaned up in case no epg data file is given
 
 Holger Dengler <holger.dengler@gmx.de>
  for making the isnumber() function check the given pointer for NULL
@@ -3009,6 +3019,11 @@ Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  for suggesting to increase the size of the TS buffer to 5MB and that of the Recorder
  buffer to 20MB to better handle HD recordings
  for fixing setting the video format in the dvbhdffdevice
+ for reporting a problem with setting the system time from the TDT in case devices
+ are tuned to the same transponder on different sources, and these broadcast different
+ time data
+ for reporting a problem with unjustified "video data stream broken" errors in case
+ the system time is changed while a recording is active
 
 Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
  for some improvements to the Makefiles
@@ -3169,3 +3184,21 @@ Seppo Ingalsuo <seppo.ingalsuo@iki.fi>
 Manfred V<>lkel <mvoelkel@digitaldevices.de>
  for suggesting to make all bonded devices (except for the master) turn off their LNB
  power completely to avoid problems when receiving vertically polarized transponders
+
+Thomas Maass <mase@setho.org>
+ for reporting a difference in the internal sequence of actions when pressing the Blue
+ and the Back key, respectively, during replay
+
+Martin Prochnow <nordlicht@martins-kabuff.de>
+ for writing the "extrecmenu" plugin, which inspired the implementation of editing
+ recording properties
+
+Eike Edener <eike@edener.de>
+ for reporting a bug in writing group separators to channels.conf that contain a comma
+
+Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
+ for making the function cRecordings::MBperMinute() only take into account recordings
+ with less than 5 seconds per megabyte, to filter out radio recordings
+
+Guido Cordaro <guido.cordaro@tiscali.it>
+ for adding maximum signal strength value for TechniSat SkyStar 2 DVB-S rev 2.3P