Version 1.7.28

Original announce message:
VDR developer version 1.7.28 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.28.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.27-1.7.28.diff

MD5 checksums:

3ccff2dcc42d112e23dd64f2c39f02f1  vdr-1.7.28.tar.bz2
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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.

The new 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

From the HISTORY file:
- Fixed cPixmapMemory::DrawEllipse() for quadrants -1 and -4.
- Fixed getting the maximum short channel name length in case there are no short names
  at all (reported by Derek Kelly).
- The new function cDevice::DeviceType() returns a string identifying the type of
  the given device.
- Now limiting the number of characters of a channel's (short) name to 16 in the
  schedules menus, to keep that column from getting overly wide in case there is
  a channel with a very long name that has no short name.
- Fixed EPG scan on systems with only a single DVB device that use software output
  (reported by Juergen Lock).
- Skins can now inquire the menu category for which their cSkinDisplayMenu is currently
  being used. This can be done either through a call to cSkinDisplayMenu::MenuCategory()
  or by reimplementing cSkinDisplayMenu::SetMenuCategory(). This information allows a
  skin to use special icons or decorations for the various types of menus in VDR.
- The new setup option "DVB/Standard compliance" can be used to switch between different
  variations of the DVB standard (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). Currently there is "DVB"
  (for the original DVB standard) and "ANSI/SCTE", which is used to properly handle
  certain private stream types.
- The disk usage is no longer automatically added to the title of the main and
  "Recordings" menus. This has always been a mekeshift solution and it is now up
  to the individual skin if, where and how it wants to display this information.
  A skin can use the new cVideoDiskUsage class to implement such a display. For
  compatibility, the default skins "Classic VDR", "ST:TNG Panels" and "Text mode"
  (i.e. curses) have been changed to behave like before. Other skins may want to
  display the disk usage in totally different ways.
- A cOsdMenu can now handle skins that display different numbers of items in the
  various menu categories.
- OSD and skin are now reinitialized after a plugin setup page has been confirmed,
  to have them react immediately in case any change to a plugin's setup parameter
  has an effect on the OSD.
- The Timers list is now marked as modified whenever a recording starts or ends.
- Fixed cDevice::StillPicture(), making sure it doesn't call the derived class's
  function if no buffer has been allocated (reported by Marcus Roscher).
- Fixed the SVDRP command UPDR, which didn't update the global recordings list
  (reported by Lars Hanisch).
- cControl::Control() now has an additional boolean parameter, which can be set to
  true to get the current player control even if it is hidden.
- The new functions cControl::GetRecording() and cControl::GetHeader() can be used
  to retrieve information about what the current player is playing.
- Fixed a possible high CPU load when pausing replay (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
- Fixed character comparisons in cSubtitleObject::DecodeCharacterString() (reported
  by Reinhard Mantey).
- Renamed the function cString::sprintf(const char *fmt, va_list &ap) to vsprintf(),
  because it might inadvertently be called with a 'char *' as the second argument on
  some compilers and cause a crash (reported by Sundararaj Reel).
- Removed the "bondedMasterFailed" mechanism from cDvbTuner, because it caused
  problems with the EPG scan in case a transponder is not receivable in a setup with
  bonded devices (reported by Michael Schneider).
- Making sure setup strings don't contain any newline characters (thanks to Joachim
  Wilke).
- The new member function cSkinDisplayReplay::SetRecording() allows a skin to display
  more information about the currently played recording.
- Fixed a mismatched 'delete' in cSchedules::SetEpgDataFileName() (thanks to Reinhard
  Mantey).
- The DrawText() functions of the OSD now accept the new alignment flag taBorder,
  which triggers keeping a proper distance from the edge that taLeft or taRight
  aligns to.
- Fixed checking for UTF-8 support in cFont::Bidi() (reported by Torsten Lang).
- If a recording has no info file, the 'title' of the recording's info is now set
  to the recording's name.
- cVector::Clear() now reinitializes any previously used members.
- Fixed resetting CAMs (thanks to Marco Skambraks).
- The new function RgbShade() (include osd.h) can be used to generate a brighter or
  darker version of a given color.
- The new class cSortedTimers can be used to quickly get a list of all timers, sorted
  by their start time.
- The new skin "LCARS" is an enhanced version of the "ST:TNG" skin (which is still
  there in its original layout, for those who don't like the LCARS skin, or can't use
  it due to OSD limitations). The LCARS skin utilizes the new "menu category" feature
  to display additional information on the main menu page. It shows upcoming timers
  and the system's devices, as well as which device is recording which timers. The
  upper pane of the main menu displays the programme data in live and replay mode,
  and a progress bar. An indicator on the right side of the device list shows which
  device is currently used for live viewing, and whether it is in transfer mode.
  The individual device displays show the device number, the device type, which CAM
  (if any ) is currently assigned to the device, and the signal strength and quality.
  On the left side of the OSD there is a permanent display of the current date and
  time, the disk usage and the system load.
  "LCARS" is the new default skin of VDR. It requires at least a 4bpp (16 color) full
  screen OSD, but you can still operate it if your OSD can handle only fewer colors
  (in which case you may want to switch to the "ST:TNG" or "Classic VDR" skin).
- Finally removed the code marked with __RECORDING_H_DEPRECATED_DIRECT_MEMBER_ACCESS
  and LEGACY_CRECEIVER.
- Now making sure that the "small font" is never larger than the "osd font".
- Fixed font handling with fontconfig 2.9.0 or newer (thanks to Joerg Bornkessel).
- Extended the interface to the script that gets called for recordings, so that in
  the "edited" case it also provides the name of the original recording (thanks to
  Christian Richter).
- Added DeleteEvent() to the EPG handler interface, so that an EPG handler can trigger
  deleting of an event (thanks to Christian Kaiser).
- Speeded up opening menus on systems with many (several thousands) of recordings, by
  caching the information whether a recording is stored on the video directory file
  system within the cRecording data (based on a patch from Torsten Lang).

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  for suggesting to change the Green button in the "Edit timer" menu from "Once"
  to "Single"
  for fixing reduced bpp support for DVB subtitles
+ for implementing "DVB Standard compliance" handling
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
@@ -1309,6 +1310,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  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
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
@@ -1782,6 +1784,7 @@ Joachim Wilke <vdr@joachim-wilke.de>
  for modifying cCharSetConv so that it can be used to convert from "whatever VDR uses"
  to a given code
  for adding some missing 'const' to cDevice
+ for making sure setup strings don't contain any newline characters
 
 Sascha Klek <sklek@gmx.de>
  for reporting a problem with the '0' key in the "Day" item of the "Timers" menu
@@ -2591,6 +2594,9 @@ Sundararaj Reel <sundararaj.reel@googlemail.com>
  for reporting a memory leak in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir() in case there are too
  many link levels
  for reporting a bug in cListBase::Move() in case From and To are equal
+ for reporting a problem with the function cString::sprintf(const char *fmt, va_list &ap),
+ that might inadvertently be called with a 'char *' as the second argument on some
+ compilers and cause a crash
 
 Ales Jurik <ajurik@quick.cz>
  for reporting broken SI data on Czech/Slovak channels after changing the default
@@ -2663,6 +2669,8 @@ Derek Kelly (user.vdr@gmail.com)
  could not be determined after resuming recording
  for reporting a problem with detecting frames for channels that split frames into
  several payloads
+ for reporting a problem with getting the maximum short channel name length in case there
+ are no short names at all
 
 Marcel Unbehaun <frostworks@gmx.de>
  for adding cRecordingInfo::GetEvent()
@@ -2720,6 +2728,7 @@ Lars Hanisch <dvb@flensrocker.de>
  for suggesting to assign the source character 'V' to "Analog Video"
  for a patch that was used to implement SCR (Satellite Channel Routing)
  for implementing the SVDRP command 'UPDR'
+ for reporting that the SVDRP command UPDR didn't update the global recordings list
 
 Alex Lasnier <alex@fepg.org>
  for adding tuning support for ATSC devices
@@ -2771,6 +2780,7 @@ Dominik Strasser <dominik@die-strassers.de>
 
 Joerg Bornkessel <hd_brummy@gentoo.org>
  for adding LDFLAGS to the linker calls in the Makefiles
+ for fixing font handling with fontconfig 2.9.0 or newer
 
 Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
  for suggesting to retrieve the include path to the freetype2 header files
@@ -2790,6 +2800,8 @@ Gerald Dachs <vdr@dachsweb.de>
 
 Juergen Lock <vdr-l@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
  for fixing cUnbufferedFile::Seek() in case it is compiled without USE_FADVISE
+ for reporting a problem with EPG scan on systems with only a single DVB device that
+ use software output
 
 Sergiu Dotenco <sergiu.dotenco@googlemail.com>
  for reporting a missing initialization in sDvbSpuRect
@@ -2849,6 +2861,9 @@ Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  of EPG data from BSkyB's "MTV MUSIC"
  for suggesting to make BIDI support check at runtime whether the system runs with
  UTF-8
+ 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
 
 Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
  for some improvements to the Makefiles
@@ -2862,3 +2877,26 @@ Ralf Schueler <dl4mw@schueler.ws>
  from version 1.7.8 to 1.6.0-3
  for backporting "Fixed cRecordings::DelByName() to avoid compilation errors with
  gcc 4.4" from version 1.7.9 to 1.6.0-3
+
+Marcus Roscher <dad401@gmx.de>
+ for reporting a problem with cDevice::StillPicture(), which called the derived class's
+ function even if no buffer has been allocated
+
+Reinhard Mantey <geronimo013@gmx.de>
+ for reporting a problem with character comparisons in
+ cSubtitleObject::DecodeCharacterString()
+ for fixing a mismatched 'delete' in cSchedules::SetEpgDataFileName()
+
+Michael Schneider <vdrportal_midas@gmx.de>
+ for reporting a problem with the EPG scan in case a transponder is not receivable in
+ a setup with bonded devices
+
+Marco Skambraks <marco@ammec.de>
+ for fixing resetting CAMs
+
+Christian Richter <cr@crichter.net>
+ for extending the interface to the script that gets called for recordings, so that in
+ the "edited" case it also provides the name of the original recording
+
+Christian Kaiser <christian.kaiser@teleservice.com>
+ for adding DeleteEvent() to the EPG handler interface