Version 1.7.30

VDR developer version 1.7.30 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.30.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.29-1.7.30.diff

MD5 checksums:

c6d75f2962bc3e22d9313c0ee4fa113a  vdr-1.7.30.tar.bz2
a63098efcc58bc697d6b890097d9c370  vdr-1.7.29-1.7.30.diff

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 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:
- Fixed sorting recordings in the top level video directory.
- Fixed handling control characters in SI data in case of UTF-8 encoded strings
   (thanks to Mehdi Karamnejad for reporting a problem with garbled UTF-8 EPG data
   and helping to debug it).
- Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- When checking whether a video directory is empty, file names that start with a
   dot ('.') are now ignored and will be implicitly removed if the directory contains
   no other files. This fixes the leftover ".sort" files that were introduced in
   version 1.7.29.
- Added IsUpdate() to the EPG handler interface (thanks to Jörg Wendel).
- Fixed detecting transfer mode on full featured DVB cards (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt
   for reporting a problem with updating CA descriptors in such cases).
- Fixed a race condition when zapping in transfer mode (reported by Reinhard Nissl).
   This involves a slight change in the semantics of the cReceiver::Activate() function,
   which is now called with 'false' after the receiver has been detached from the
   device.
- The new function cDevice::ReadFilter() can be used by devices to implement their
   own way of retrieving section filter data (thanks to Deti Fliegl).
- The new function cDevice::HasInternalCam() can be implemented by devices that
   provide encrypted channels in an already decrypted form, without requiring explicit
   handling of a CAM (thanks to Tobias Grimm).
- VDR can now be built according to the FHS ("File system Hierarchy Standard") by
   activating the line
   #USEFHS = 1
   in a copy of the file Make.config.template (thanks to Dennis Bendlin, as well as
   Christopher Reimer and Udo Richter for contributing to the patch).
- By default (without FHS support) the config directory is now set to the value
   given in the -v option if only -v and no -c is given.
- Fixed a long delay at the end when replaying a recording that has stopped recording
   less than an hour ago (typically time shift mode or a freshly edited recording).
- Fixed getting the file size and number of frames of ongoing recordings (only the
   timestamp of the recording's directory was checked, while it should have been that
   of the index file).
- Fixed sluggish response when manipulating editing marks while a cutting thread
   is running (reported by Torsten Lang).
- The new setup options "OSD/Color key [0123]" can be used to adjust the sequence
   of the color buttons displayed in the menus to that of the color keys on your
   remote control (based on a patch from Oliver Schinagl).
   Authors of plugins that implement skins may want to adapt their SetButtons()
   function in order to make use of this new feature. See, for instance, the function
   cSkinClassicDisplayMenu::SetButtons() in skinclassic.c for details.

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
  for fixing setting the OSD size in the 'Confirm' interface call
  for fixing handling improper buffer lengths in the EIT parser
  for a patch that was used to implement StopSectionHandler()
+ for adding cDevice::ReadFilter() to allow devices to implement their own way of
+ retrieving section filter data
 
 Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>
  for implementing support for the teletext PID
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ Andre Valentin <av2000@topmail.de>
 J<EFBFBD>rgen Tvedt <pjtvedt@online.no>
  for translating OSD texts to the Norwegian language
 
-Stefan Huelswitt <huels@iname.com>
+Stefan Huelswitt <s.huelswitt@gmx.de>
  for fixing the repeat function with LIRC
  for making the position of the channel display configurable
  for making the width and height of the OSD configurable
@@ -225,6 +227,8 @@ Stefan Huelswitt <huels@iname.com>
  cStatus::MsgSetVolume() bug to react properly
  for improving the 'i18n' target in the Makefile to avoid unnecessary work
  for a patch that was used to implement the --localedir option
+ for reporting a problem with updating CA descriptors in transfer mode on full
+ featured DVB cards
 
 Ulrich R<>der <roeder@efr-net.de>
  for pointing out that there are channels that have a symbol rate higher than 27500
@@ -1317,6 +1321,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  receive channels
  for reporting that the Transfer Mode indicator bitmap in the LCARS skin may not
  fit with small font sizes
+ for reporting a race condition when zapping in transfer mode
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
@@ -1751,6 +1756,7 @@ Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
  editing mark
  for adding the option --outputonly to the dvbsddevice plugin
  for adding a missing template specification to the c'tor of cSortedTimers
+ for contributing to a patch that implements FHS support
 
 Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
@@ -2342,6 +2348,9 @@ Tobias Grimm <tobias.grimm@e-tobi.net>
  for avoiding a gcc 4.6 compiler error in the skincurses plugin.
  for suggesting to move setting LC_NUMERIC further up to make sure any floating point
  numbers use a decimal point
+ for implementing cDevice::HasInternalCam(), which can be implemented by devices that
+ provide encrypted channels in an already decrypted form, without requiring explicit
+ handling of a CAM
 
 Helge Lenz <h.lenz@gmx.de>
  for reporting a bug in setting the 'Delta' parameter when calling the shutdown
@@ -2467,6 +2476,7 @@ 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
+ for adding IsUpdate() 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
@@ -2766,6 +2776,7 @@ Luis Fernandes <telping@gmail.com>
 Christopher Reimer <reimer.christopher@freenet.de>
  for reporting a problem with external Dolby Digital processing via the '-a' option
  in live mode and with TS recordings
+ for contributing to a patch that implements FHS support
 
 Stefan Huskamp <coca_cola1@gmx.de>
  for suggesting to make entering characters via the number keys
@@ -2875,6 +2886,8 @@ Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  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
+ for reporting a sluggish response when manipulating editing marks while a cutting
+ thread is running
 
 Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
  for some improvements to the Makefiles
@@ -2917,3 +2930,12 @@ Dirk Heiser <dirk-vdr@gmx.de>
 
 Ludi Kaleni <ludi113@hotmail.com>
  for suggesting to add the source character to channel names whenever they are displayed
+
+Mehdi Karamnejad <mehdi_karamnejad@sfu.ca>
+ for reporting a problem with garbled UTF-8 EPG data and helping to debug it
+
+Dennis Bendlin <dennisbendlin@online.de>
+ for a patch that implements FHS support
+
+Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
+ for a patch that was used to implement the setup options "OSD/Color key [0123]"