Version 1.7.31

VDR developer version 1.7.31 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.31.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.30-1.7.31.diff

MD5 checksums:

a3edd18a352465dd26c97c1990f7bcfd  vdr-1.7.31.tar.bz2
32ff98697d1b383478a6e1932e4afc9c  vdr-1.7.30-1.7.31.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.

The changes since version 1.7.30:

- If regenerating an index file fails and no data is written to the file, VDR now
   reports this error and removes the empty index file.
- The setup parameter "Recording/Instant rec. time (min)" can now be set to '0',
   which means to record only the currently running event (based on a patch from Matti
   Lehtimäki).
- Decreased the ring buffer put/get trigger sizes from 1/3 to 1/10.
- The script given to VDR with the '-r' option is now also called whenever a
   recording is deleted (thanks to Alexander Wenzel).
- Improved detecting frames in MPEG 4 video (reported by Andrey Pridvorov).
- cPatPmtParser::ParsePmt() now also recognizes stream type 0x81 as "AC3", so that
   recordings that have been converted from the old PES format to TS can be played
   (suggested by Jens Vogel).
- Fixed a leftover frame counter in the LCARS skin's replay display after jumping to
   an editing mark and resuming replay.
- The new class cIoThrottle is used to allow I/O intense threads to temporarily
   suspend their activities in case buffers run full (suggested by Torsten Lang).
   Currently the cutter thread is suspended if the TS or Recorder buffer use more
   than 50% of their capacity. Plugin authors may want to participate in this
   mechanism if they use intense background I/O.
- Increased the size of the TS buffer to 5MB and that of the Recorder buffer to
   20MB to better handle HD recordings (suggested by Torsten Lang).
- Moved cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data file into a separate
   thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems (based on a patch from
   Sören Moch).
- Fixed sorting folders before recordings in case of UTF-8 (thanks to Sören Moch).
- Reactivated stripping control characters from EPG texts and adapted it to UTF-8.
- Added missing decrementing of 'len' in libsi/si.c's String::decodeText() functions.
- When checking whether a video directory is empty, file names that start with a
   dot ('.') are no longer automatically ignored and implicitly removed if the directory
   contains no other files. Instead, RemoveEmptyDirectories() now has an additional
   parameter that can be given a list of files that shall be ignored when considering
   whether a directory is empty. This allows users to continue to use files such as
   ".keep" to prevent a directory from being deleted when it is empty. Currently the
   only file name that is ignored is ".sort".

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -2312,6 +2312,8 @@ Pekka Mauno <pekka.mauno@iki.fi>
 
 Alexander Wenzel <hondansx@gmx.de>
  for fixing the shutdown timeout
+ for making the script given to VDR with the '-r' option be also called whenever a
+ recording is deleted
 
 Jan Lenz <email@JanLenz.de>
  for reporting a bug in deleting recordings that have been removed externally when
@@ -2348,9 +2350,6 @@ 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
@@ -2409,6 +2408,9 @@ Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
  for adding support for automatically selecting subtitles when playing old PES
  recordings made with the subtitles plugin
  for pointing out -Werror=...
+ 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
 
 Antti Hartikainen <ami+vdr@ah.fi>
  for updating 'S13E' in 'sources.conf'
@@ -2739,6 +2741,7 @@ Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it>
 Matti Lehtim<69>ki <matti.lehtimaki@gmail.com>
  for implementing the setup option "Miscellaneous/Channels wrap"
  for reporting a missing change from -O2 to -O3 in Make.config.template
+ for a patch that was used to implement instant recording of only the present event
 
 Stephan Austerm<72>hle <au@hcsd.de>
  for suggesting to flush the file in cSafeFile::Close()
@@ -2888,6 +2891,10 @@ Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  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
+ for suggesting to allow I/O intense threads to temporarily suspend their activities
+ in case buffers run full
+ 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
 
 Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
  for some improvements to the Makefiles
@@ -2939,3 +2946,17 @@ Dennis Bendlin <dennisbendlin@online.de>
 
 Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
  for a patch that was used to implement the setup options "OSD/Color key [0123]"
+
+Andrey Pridvorov <ua0lnj@bk.ru>
+ for reporting a problem with detecting frames in MPEG 4 video, and pointing towards
+ a better way of doing it
+
+Jens Vogel <jens.vogel@akjv.de>
+ for suggesting to make cPatPmtParser::ParsePmt() also recognize stream type 0x81
+ as "AC3", so that recordings that have been converted from the old PES format to
+ TS can be played
+
+S<EFBFBD>ren Moch <smoch@web.de>
+ for a patch that was used to move cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data
+ file into a separate thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems
+ for fixing sorting folders before recordings in case of UTF-8