Version 1.7.24

Original announce message:
VDR developer version 1.7.24 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.24.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.23-1.7.24.diff

MD5 checksums:

a034c5e399417dfc583483f650d003ee  vdr-1.7.24.tar.bz2
aa1a2b202da92e65945ff39470b26618  vdr-1.7.23-1.7.24.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.

From the HISTORY file:
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- Fixed a high load in case a transponder can't be received.
- Improved the way DVB_API_VERSION is checked.
- Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- Fixed asserting there is a live programme if the primary device is bonded with
  a device that starts a recording on a different band.
- Fixed the return type of cMyDeviceHook::DeviceProvidesTransponder() in PLUGINS.html.
- Fixed a crash in a plugin using cDeviceHook when VDR ends (reported by Oliver Endriss).
- Some improvements to the Makefiles (thanks to Christian Ruppert).
- Fixed cRecording::LengthInSeconds(), which wrongfully rounded the result to full
  minutes (thanks to Christoph Haubrich).
- Symbolic links are no longer resolved in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir() (thanks to
  Sundararaj Reel).
- The epg.data file is now read in a separate thread to make the startup process
  faster in case the file is very large (suggested by Helmut Auer).
- Fixed selecting the primary device for receiving the live viewing channel in
  case it is bonded with an other device and has no receiver attached to it.
- Fixed a possible crash when canceling VDR while displaying subtitles, and the
  primary device is no longer available.
- Improved handling subtitles of BBC channels.
- No longer using tabs as delimiter in the EPG bugfix log (they were garbled in the
  log file).
- Added a missing '.' after the month in VPS strings.
- Added some missing 'const' to cDevice (thanks to Joachim Wilke).
- Fixed handling the PrimaryLimit when requesting a device for live viewing
  (reported by Uwe Scheffler).
- Removed superfluous calls to SetVideoFormat() from device constructors. This
  function is called in cDevice::SetPrimaryDevice(), anyway.
- An ongoing editing process is now canceled if either the original or the edited
  version of the recording is deleted from the Recordings menu.
- The SVDRP command DELR now won't delete a recording that is currently being edited.
- Removed code stub for obsolete SVDRP command MOVT.
- The DVB device adapters/frontends are now probed by scanning the /dev/dvb directory
  instead of looping through adapter/frontend numbers. This allows for "holes" in the
  device numbering.
- cReadDir::Next() now skips directory entries "." and "..".
- Fixed a possible deadlock in time shift mode.
- Fixed switching into time shift mode when pausing live video (thanks to Reinhard
  Nissl for helping to debug this one).

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ Uwe Scheffler <linux_dvb@uni.de>
  for helping to test new DVB-T handling
  for reporting a bug in switching the video format in the Setup/DVB menu
  for reporting a problem with frozen live view in conjunction with device bonding
+ for reporting a problem in handling the PrimaryLimit when requesting a device for
+ live viewing
 
 Matjaz Thaler <matjaz.thaler@guest.arnes.si>
  for improving AC3 decoding when replaying DVDs
@@ -604,6 +606,7 @@ Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>
  for a patch that was used to implement the command line options --edit and
  --genindex
  for suggesting to disable EPG processing for a while after a CLRE command
+ for suggesting to read the epg.data file in a separate thread
 
 Jeremy Hall <jhall@UU.NET>
  for fixing an incomplete initialization of the filter parameters in eit.c
@@ -680,6 +683,7 @@ Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
  for his input on calculating the Aspect factor in GetOsdSize()
  for suggesting a better way of handling calls to realloc()
  for making the cutter set the 'broken link' flag for MPEG2 TS recordings
+ for reporting a crash in a plugin using cDeviceHook when VDR ends
 
 Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
  for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
@@ -1125,6 +1129,7 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  for adding support for DVB-T2 to libsi
  for adding support for handling DVB-T2 transponders
  for suggesting to add member functions Adapter() and Frontend() to cDvbDevice
+ for improving handling subtitles of BBC channels
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
@@ -1293,6 +1298,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  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
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
@@ -1765,6 +1771,7 @@ Joachim Wilke <vdr@joachim-wilke.de>
  for adding a missing 'const' to cRecording::FramesPerSecond()
  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
 
 Sascha Klek <sklek@gmx.de>
  for reporting a problem with the '0' key in the "Day" item of the "Timers" menu
@@ -2267,6 +2274,8 @@ Christoph Haubrich <christoph1.haubrich@arcor.de>
  index file
  for fixing setting the start time of an edited recording
  for adding support for HbbTV to libsi
+ for fixing cRecording::LengthInSeconds(), which wrongfully rounded the result to full
+ minutes
 
 Pekka Mauno <pekka.mauno@iki.fi>
  for fixing cSchedule::GetFollowingEvent() in case there is currently no present
@@ -2816,3 +2825,16 @@ 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
+
+Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
+ for some improvements to the Makefiles
+
+Ralf Schueler <dl4mw@schueler.ws>
+ for backporting "Changed cDvbDevice::GrabImage() to use V4L" from version 1.7.3
+ to 1.6.0-3
+ for backporting "Added some missing 'const' keywords to avoid compilation errors
+ with gcc 4.4" from version 1.7.8 to 1.6.0-3
+ for backporting "Modified cSVDRP::CmdGRAB() to avoid writing into const data"
+ 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