All cards write EIT info into the same data structure; free cards scan for EIT info

HISTORY

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   are programmed via the "Schedules" menu) are now replaced by suitable
   substitutes.
 
-2000-11-12: Version 0.68
+2000-11-18: Version 0.68
 
 - Date and time in the title of an event info page are now always right adjusted.
 - The 'current channel' is now handled device specific (in case there is more
@@ -289,3 +289,15 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   CAM module (and thus can continue recording on a different DVB card).
 - The "Yellow" button in the "What's on now/next?" menus now displays the
   schedule of the current channel from that menu. 
+- All DVB cards in a multi-card system now write their EIT information into the
+  same data structure.
+- If there is more than one DVB card in the system, the non-primary cards are
+  now used to periodically scan through the channels in order to keep the
+  EPG info up-to-date. Scanning kicks in after 60 seconds of user inactivity
+  (timeout in order to keep user interactions instantaneously) and each channel
+  that has the 'pnr' parameter defined in 'channels.conf' is switched to for
+  20 seconds. If there is only one DVB card in the system, that card will start
+  scanning after 5 hours (configurable through the "Setup" menu) of user inactivity
+  and will switch back to the channel it originally displayed at the first sign of
+  user activity. Any scanning will only occur if that particular card is not
+  currently recording or replaying.

MANUAL

@@ -272,10 +272,16 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
                          1 = system time wil be set
                          Note that this works only if VDR is running under a user
                          id that has permisson to set the system time.
+
   MarginStart = 2        Defines how many minutes before the official start time
   MarginStop = 10        of a broadcast VDR shall start recording, and how long
                          after the official end time it shall stop recording.
 
+  EPGScanTimeout = 5     The time (in hours) of user inactivity after which the
+                         DVB card in a single card system starts scanning channels
+                         to keep the EPG up-to-date.
+                         A value of '0' turns off scanning on a single card system.
+
 * Executing system commands
 
   The "Main" menu option "Commands" allows you to execute any system commands

README

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-On Screen Menu for the Video Disk Recorder
+Video Disk Recorder ('VDR')
-------------------------------------------
+---------------------------
 
-These files contain the source code of an on screen
+These files contain the source code of the "Video Disk Recorder",
-menu for a video disk recorder based on the DVB driver
+which is based on the DVB driver of the LinuxTV project (http://linuxtv.org).
-of the LinuxTV project (http://linuxtv.org).
 For details about the "Video Disk Recorder" project please
 refer to http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr.
 
@@ -13,6 +12,8 @@ Web pages, which can be used within this program.
 Please see the INSTALL file for details on how to install
 this program on your computer.
 
+The MANUAL file describes how to operate the VDR.
+
 The author can be contacted at kls@cadsoft.de.
 
 Yet another "set-top-box"?

config.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.c 1.33 2000/11/12 12:22:40 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.c 1.34 2000/11/18 13:26:36 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "config.h"
@@ -257,12 +257,14 @@ bool cChannel::Save(FILE *f)
   return fprintf(f, ToText()) > 0;
 }
 
-bool cChannel::Switch(cDvbApi *DvbApi)
+bool cChannel::Switch(cDvbApi *DvbApi, bool Log)
 {
   if (!DvbApi)
      DvbApi = cDvbApi::PrimaryDvbApi;
   if (!DvbApi->Recording() && !groupSep) {
-     isyslog(LOG_INFO, "switching to channel %d", number);
+     if (Log) {
+        isyslog(LOG_INFO, "switching to channel %d", number);
+        }
      for (int i = 3; i--;) {
          if (DvbApi->SetChannel(number, frequency, polarization, diseqc, srate, vpid, apid, ca, pnr))
             return true;
@@ -720,6 +722,7 @@ cSetup::cSetup(void)
   SetSystemTime = 0;
   MarginStart = 2;
   MarginStop = 10;
+  EPGScanTimeout = 5;
 }
 
 bool cSetup::Parse(char *s)
@@ -738,6 +741,7 @@ bool cSetup::Parse(char *s)
      else if (!strcasecmp(Name, "SetSystemTime"))       SetSystemTime      = atoi(Value);
      else if (!strcasecmp(Name, "MarginStart"))         MarginStart        = atoi(Value);
      else if (!strcasecmp(Name, "MarginStop"))          MarginStop         = atoi(Value);
+     else if (!strcasecmp(Name, "EPGScanTimeout"))      EPGScanTimeout     = atoi(Value);
      else
         return false;
      return true;
@@ -788,7 +792,7 @@ bool cSetup::Save(const char *FileName)
         fprintf(f, "LnbFrequHi         = %d\n", LnbFrequHi);
         fprintf(f, "SetSystemTime      = %d\n", SetSystemTime);
         fprintf(f, "MarginStart        = %d\n", MarginStart);
-        fprintf(f, "MarginStop         = %d\n", MarginStop);
+        fprintf(f, "EPGScanTimeout     = %d\n", EPGScanTimeout);
         fclose(f);
         isyslog(LOG_INFO, "saved setup to %s", FileName);
         return true;

config.h

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.33 2000/11/12 12:22:24 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.34 2000/11/18 13:25:53 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public:
   const char *ToText(void);
   bool Parse(const char *s);
   bool Save(FILE *f);
-  bool Switch(cDvbApi *DvbApi = NULL);
+  bool Switch(cDvbApi *DvbApi = NULL, bool Log = true);
   };
 
 #define DEFAULTPRIORITY 99
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ public:
   int LnbFrequHi;
   int SetSystemTime;
   int MarginStart, MarginStop;
+  int EPGScanTimeout;
   cSetup(void);
   bool Load(const char *FileName);
   bool Save(const char *FileName = NULL);

dvbapi.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbapi.c 1.37 2000/11/12 12:59:50 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbapi.c 1.38 2000/11/18 13:46:46 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbapi.h"
@@ -1143,6 +1143,7 @@ cDvbApi::~cDvbApi()
      Stop();
      StopRecord();
      OvlO(false); //Overlay off!
+     //XXX the following call sometimes causes a segfault - driver problem?
      close(videoDev);
      }
 #if defined(DEBUG_OSD) || defined(REMOTE_KBD)
@@ -1727,7 +1728,7 @@ bool cDvbApi::SetChannel(int ChannelNumber, int FrequencyMHz, char Polarization,
      front.AFC       = 1;
      ioctl(videoDev, VIDIOCSFRONTEND, &front);
      if (front.sync & 0x1F == 0x1F) {
-        if (siProcessor)
+        if (this == PrimaryDvbApi && siProcessor)
            siProcessor->SetCurrentServiceID(Pnr);
         currentChannel = ChannelNumber;
         return true;
@@ -2107,3 +2108,55 @@ bool cDvbApi::GetIndex(int *Current, int *Total)
   return false;
 }
 
+// --- cEITScanner -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+cEITScanner::cEITScanner(void)
+{
+  lastScan = lastActivity = time(NULL);
+  currentChannel = 0;
+  lastChannel = 1;
+}
+
+void cEITScanner::Activity(void)
+{
+  if (currentChannel) {
+     Channels.SwitchTo(currentChannel);
+     currentChannel = 0;
+     }
+  lastActivity = time(NULL);
+}
+
+void cEITScanner::Process(void)
+{
+  if (Channels.MaxNumber() > 1) {
+     time_t now = time(NULL);
+     if (now - lastScan > ScanTimeout && now - lastActivity > ActivityTimeout) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < cDvbApi::NumDvbApis; i++) {
+            cDvbApi *DvbApi = cDvbApi::GetDvbApi(i, 0);
+            if (DvbApi) {
+               if (DvbApi != cDvbApi::PrimaryDvbApi || (cDvbApi::NumDvbApis == 1 && Setup.EPGScanTimeout && now - lastActivity > Setup.EPGScanTimeout * 3600)) {
+                  if (!(DvbApi->Recording() || DvbApi->Replaying())) {
+                     int oldCh = lastChannel;
+                     int ch = oldCh + 1;
+                     while (ch != oldCh) {
+                           if (ch > Channels.MaxNumber())
+                              ch = 1;
+                           cChannel *Channel = Channels.GetByNumber(ch);
+                           if (Channel && Channel->pnr) {
+                              if (DvbApi == cDvbApi::PrimaryDvbApi && !currentChannel)
+                                 currentChannel = DvbApi->Channel();
+                              Channel->Switch(DvbApi, false);
+                              lastChannel = ch;
+                              break;
+                              }
+                           ch++;
+                           }
+                     }
+                  }
+               }
+            }
+        lastScan = time(NULL);
+        }
+     }
+}
+

dvbapi.h

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbapi.h 1.23 2000/11/12 12:52:41 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbapi.h 1.24 2000/11/18 13:46:10 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __DVBAPI_H
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ public:
 class cDvbApi {
 private:
   int videoDev;
-  cSIProcessor *siProcessor;
   cDvbApi(const char *VideoFileName, const char *VbiFileName);
 public:
   ~cDvbApi();
@@ -79,6 +78,9 @@ public:
 
   // EIT facilities
 
+private:
+  cSIProcessor *siProcessor;
+public:
   const cSchedules *Schedules(cThreadLock *ThreadLock) const;
          // Caller must provide a cThreadLock which has to survive the entire
          // time the returned cSchedules is accessed. Once the cSchedules is no
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ private:
 public:
   bool SetChannel(int ChannelNumber, int FrequencyMHz, char Polarization, int Diseqc, int Srate, int Vpid, int Apid, int Ca, int Pnr);
   static int CurrentChannel(void) { return PrimaryDvbApi ? PrimaryDvbApi->currentChannel : 0; }
+  int Channel(void) { return currentChannel; }
 
   // Record/Replay facilities
 
@@ -212,4 +215,18 @@ public:
   bool GetIndex(int *Current, int *Total = NULL);
   };
 
+class cEITScanner {
+private:
+  enum { ActivityTimeout = 60,
+         ScanTimeout = 20
+       };
+  time_t lastScan, lastActivity;
+  int currentChannel, lastChannel;
+public:
+  cEITScanner(void);
+  bool Active(void) { return currentChannel; }
+  void Activity(void);
+  void Process(void);
+  };
+
 #endif //__DVBAPI_H

eit.c

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- * $Id: eit.c 1.8 2000/11/02 19:19:06 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: eit.c 1.9 2000/11/18 13:42:28 kls Exp $
  ***************************************************************************/
 
 #include "eit.h"
@@ -1056,15 +1056,20 @@ bool cEIT::WriteExtEventDescriptor(unsigned short service, eit_loop_t *eitloop,
 
 #define MAX_FILTERS 20
 
+int cSIProcessor::numSIProcessors = 0;
+cSchedules *cSIProcessor::schedules = NULL;
+cMutex cSIProcessor::schedulesMutex;
+
 /**  */
 cSIProcessor::cSIProcessor(const char *FileName)
 {
+   masterSIProcessor = numSIProcessors == 0; // the first one becomes the 'master'
 	useTStime = false;
    filters = NULL;
-   schedules = NULL;
    if ((fsvbi = open(FileName, O_RDONLY)) >= 0)
    {
-      schedules = new cSchedules;
+      if (!numSIProcessors++) // the first one creates it
+         schedules = new cSchedules;
 	   filters = (SIP_FILTER *)calloc(MAX_FILTERS, sizeof(SIP_FILTER));
    }
    else
@@ -1078,7 +1083,8 @@ cSIProcessor::~cSIProcessor()
       Stop();
    	ShutDownFilters();
       delete filters;
-      delete schedules;
+      if (!--numSIProcessors) // the last one deletes it
+         delete schedules;
       close(fsvbi);
    }
 }
@@ -1093,7 +1099,7 @@ void cSIProcessor::Action()
       return;
       }
 
-   dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "EIT processing thread started (pid=%d)", getpid());
+   dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "EIT processing thread started (pid=%d)%s", getpid(), masterSIProcessor ? " - master" : "");
 	
    unsigned char buf[4096+1]; // max. allowed size for any EIT section (+1 for safety ;-)
 	unsigned int seclen;
@@ -1103,15 +1109,20 @@ void cSIProcessor::Action()
 	
 	while(true)
 	{
-      time_t now = time(NULL);
+      if (masterSIProcessor)
-      struct tm *ptm = localtime(&now);
-      if (now - lastCleanup > 3600 && ptm->tm_hour == 5)
       {
-         LOCK_THREAD;
+         time_t now = time(NULL);
+         struct tm *ptm = localtime(&now);
+         if (now - lastCleanup > 3600 && ptm->tm_hour == 5)
+         {
+            LOCK_THREAD;
 
-         isyslog(LOG_INFO, "Now cleaning up things");
+            schedulesMutex.Lock();
-         schedules->Cleanup();
+            isyslog(LOG_INFO, "cleaning up schedules data");
-         lastCleanup = now;
+            schedules->Cleanup();
+            schedulesMutex.Unlock();
+            lastCleanup = now;
+         }
       }
 
 		/* wait data become ready from the bitfilter */
@@ -1150,8 +1161,10 @@ void cSIProcessor::Action()
 					{
                   LOCK_THREAD;
 
+                  schedulesMutex.Lock();
 	               cEIT ceit(buf, seclen, schedules);
 						ceit.ProcessEIT();
+                  schedulesMutex.Unlock();
 					}
 					else
 						dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "Received stuffing section in EIT\n");

eit.h

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- * $Id: eit.h 1.2 2000/10/29 10:21:56 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: eit.h 1.3 2000/11/17 16:14:27 kls Exp $
  ***************************************************************************/
 
 #ifndef __EIT_H
@@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ typedef struct sip_filter {
 
 class cSIProcessor : public cThread {
 private:
-  cSchedules *schedules;
+  static int numSIProcessors;
+  static cSchedules *schedules;
+  static cMutex schedulesMutex;
+  bool masterSIProcessor;
   bool useTStime;
   SIP_FILTER *filters;
   int fsvbi;

i18n.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: i18n.c 1.2 2000/11/11 16:20:47 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: i18n.c 1.3 2000/11/18 13:28:19 kls Exp $
  */
 
 /*
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ const tPhrase Phrases[] = {
   { "MarginStop",
     "Zeitpuffer bei Ende",
   },
+  { "EPGScanTimeout",
+    "Zeit bis EPG Scan",
+  },
   // The days of the week:
   { "MTWTFSS",
     "MDMDFSS",

menu.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 1.48 2000/11/12 16:46:19 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 1.49 2000/11/18 13:42:52 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -1527,6 +1527,7 @@ void cMenuSetup::Set(void)
   Add(new cMenuEditBoolItem(tr("SetSystemTime"),      &data.SetSystemTime));
   Add(new cMenuEditIntItem( tr("MarginStart"),        &data.MarginStart));
   Add(new cMenuEditIntItem( tr("MarginStop"),         &data.MarginStop));
+  Add(new cMenuEditIntItem( tr("EPGScanTimeout"),     &data.EPGScanTimeout));
 }
 
 eOSState cMenuSetup::ProcessKey(eKeys Key)

thread.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: thread.c 1.3 2000/10/28 15:26:02 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: thread.c 1.4 2000/11/14 18:38:25 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "thread.h"
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ cThread::cThread(void)
      signal(SIGIO, SignalHandler);
      signalHandlerInstalled = true;
      }
-  pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, NULL);
   running = false;
   parentPid = lockingPid = 0;
   locked = 0;
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ cThread::cThread(void)
 
 cThread::~cThread()
 {
-  pthread_mutex_destroy(&mutex);
 }
 
 void cThread::SignalHandler(int signum)
@@ -64,7 +62,7 @@ void cThread::Stop(void)
 bool cThread::Lock(void)
 {
   if (!lockingPid || lockingPid != getpid()) {
-     pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
+     Mutex.Lock();
      lockingPid = getpid();
      }
   locked++;
@@ -75,7 +73,7 @@ void cThread::Unlock(void)
 {
   if (!--locked) {
      lockingPid = 0;
-     pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
+     Mutex.Unlock();
      }
 }
 

thread.h

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: thread.h 1.2 2000/10/28 15:08:09 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: thread.h 1.3 2000/11/14 18:38:11 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __THREAD_H
@@ -13,11 +13,21 @@
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
+class cMutex {
+private:
+  pthread_mutex_t mutex;
+public:
+  cMutex(void) { pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, NULL); }
+  ~cMutex() { pthread_mutex_destroy(&mutex); }
+  void Lock(void) { pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex); }
+  void Unlock(void) { pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex); }
+  };
+
 class cThread {
   friend class cThreadLock;
 private:
   pthread_t thread;
-  pthread_mutex_t mutex;
+  cMutex Mutex;
   pid_t parentPid, lockingPid;
   int locked;
   bool running;

vdr.c

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.45 2000/11/11 14:40:11 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 1.46 2000/11/18 13:46:56 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
   Channels.SwitchTo(1);
 
+  cEITScanner EITScanner;
+
   // User interface:
 
   Interface = new cInterface(SVDRPport);
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
   while (!Interrupted) {
         // Channel display:
-        if (cDvbApi::CurrentChannel() != LastChannel) {
+        if (!EITScanner.Active() && cDvbApi::CurrentChannel() != LastChannel) {
            if (!Menu)
               Menu = new cDisplayChannel(cDvbApi::CurrentChannel(), LastChannel > 0);
            PreviousChannel = LastChannel;
@@ -224,6 +226,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
         // User Input:
         cOsdBase **Interact = Menu ? &Menu : (cOsdBase **)&ReplayControl;
         eKeys key = Interface->GetKey(!*Interact || !(*Interact)->NeedsFastResponse());
+        if (NORMALKEY(key) != kNone)
+           EITScanner.Activity();
         if (*Interact) {
            switch ((*Interact)->ProcessKey(key)) {
              case osMenu:   DELETENULL(Menu);
@@ -302,6 +306,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
              default:    break;
              }
            }
+        if (!Menu)
+           EITScanner.Process();
         }
   isyslog(LOG_INFO, "caught signal %d", Interrupted);
   delete Menu;