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Version 2.3.1
VDR developer version 2.3.1 is now available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.3.1.tar.bz2
A 'diff' against the previous version is available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.2.0-2.3.1.diff
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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.
*** PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN USING THIS DEVELOPER VERSION, ESPECIALLY
*** IF YOU ENABLE THE NEW SVDRP PEERING! KEEP BACKUPS OF ALL YOUR TIMERS
*** AND OBSERVE VERY CLOSELY WHETHER EVERYTHING WORKS AS EXPECTED. THIS
*** VERSION INTRODUCES SOME MAJOR CHANGES IN HANDLING GLOBAL LISTS AND
*** LOCKING, SO ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
The main focus of this developer version is on the new locking mechanism
for global lists, and the ability to handle remote timers.
Any plugins that access the global lists of timers, channels, schedules
or recordings, will need to be adjusted (see below for details). Please
do initial tests with plain vanilla VDR and just the output plugin you
need.
Known bugs/problems:
- After deleting the last recording in a sub folder, the cursor may not
be positioned correctly.
- Instant recordings and pausing live video don't (yet) use the default
SVDRP host for recording.
From the HISTORY file:
- The new function cOsd::MaxPixmapSize() can be called to determine the maximum size
a cPixmap may have on the current OSD. The 'osddemo' example has been modified
accordingly. Plugin authors may want to use this function in case they use pixmaps
that are larger than the full OSD size. The default implementation sets this limit
to 2048x2048 pixel.
- The Setup/CAM menu now displays which device an individual CAM is currently
assigned to (suggested by Frank Neumann).
- Added detection of 24fps (thanks to Thomas Reufer).
- Added a note about the VDR User Counter and VDR's facebook page to the README file.
- The dvbhddevice plugin is no longer part of the VDR source archive.
You can get the latest version of this plugin from the author's repository at
https://bitbucket.org/powARman/dvbhddevice.
- The dvbsddevice and rcu plugins are no longer part of the VDR source archive.
You can get the latest versions of these plugins from ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Plugins.
- Added a section about Output Devices to the INSTALL file.
- Fixed setting the source value of newly created channels, in case the NIT is
received from a different, but very close satellite position (reported by Daniel
Ribeiro). The code for handling different NITs has been removed from nit.c, because
according to the DVB standard table id 0x40 carries only the NIT of the actual
network.
- Added some comment to cPixmap about the relation between OSD, ViewPort and DrawPort
(suggested by Thomas Reufer).
- Improved syncing on sections when parsing the NIT and SDT.
- Fixed scaling subtitles (their areas could sometimes extend outside the actual OSD).
- Reduced the priority of the "video directory scanner" thread (suggested by Thomas
Reufer) and checking cIoThrottle::Engaged() when it is running.
- The script that gets called for recordings is now also called right before a
recording is edited, with the first parameter being "editing" (suggested by
Dieter Ferdinand).
- The new setup option "OSD/Default sort mode for recordings" can be used to define
how recordings shall be sorted by default (either by time or by name, with "by time"
being the default). If a particular sort mode has been selected for a folder by
pressing '0', the default no longer applies to that folder. Repeating timers no
longer write a ".sort" file into a recordings folder to have the recordings sorted
by time.
- The command line option -D now accepts the value '-' (as in -D-), which prevents
VDR from using any DVB devices (suggested by Dietmar Spingler).
- The -V and -h options now list the plugins in alphabetical order (suggested by
Dietmar Spingler).
- Fixed a compiler warning in font.c.
- Commented out the line
#define DEPRECATED_VIDEOSYSTEM
in device.h. If a plugin doesn't compile with this version of VDR, you can uncomment
this line as a quick workaround. In the long run the plugin will need to be adapted.
- The function cOsd::GetBitmap() is now 'protected'. If a plugin doesn't compile with
this version of VDR, you can uncomment the line
//#define DEPRECATED_GETBITMAP
in osd.h as a quick workaround. In the long run the plugin will need to be adapted.
- The -u option now also accepts a numerical user id (suggested by Derek Kelly).
- The SVDRP port now accepts multiple concurrent connections. You can now keep an
SVDRP connection open as long as you wish, without preventing others from
connecting. Note, though, that SVDRP connections still get closed automatically
if there has been no activity for 300 seconds (configurable via
"Setup/Miscellaneous/SVDRP timeout (s)").
- The SVDRP log messages have been unified and now always contain the IP and port
number of the remote host.
- SVDRP connections are now handled in a separate "SVDRP server handler" thread,
which makes them more responsive. Note that there is only one thread that handles
all concurrent SVDRP connections. That way each SVDRP command is guaranteed to be
processed separately, without interfering with any other SVDRP commands that might
be issued at the same time. Plugins that implement SVDRP commands may need to take
care of proper locking if the commands access global data.
- VDR now sends out a broadcast to port 6419/udp, which was assigned to 'svdrp-disc'
by the IANA. VDRs listening on that port will automatically initiate an SVDRP
connection to the broadcasting VDR, and in turn send out a broadcast to make
other VDRs connect to them. That way all VDRs within the local network will
have permanent "peer-to-peer" SVDRP connections between each other. The
configuration in the svdrphosts.conf file is taken into account when considering
whether or not to respond to an SVDRP discover broadcast.
- The new SVDRP command PING is used by automatically established peer-to-peer
connections to keep them alive.
- The new function GetSVDRPServerNames() can be used to get a list of all VDRs
this VDR is connected to via SVDRP.
- The new function ExecSVDRPCommand() can be used to execute an SVDRP command on
one of the servers this VDR is connected to, and retrieve the result.
The helper functions SVDRPCode() and SVDRPValue() can be used to easily access
the codes and values returned by ExecSVDRPCommand().
- The cTimer class now has a new member named 'remote', which holds the name of the
remote server this timer will record on. If this is NULL, it is a local timer.
- Timers from other VDRs that are connected to this VDR via SVDRP are now
automatically fetched and stored in the global Timers list. In order for this
to work, all of the channels used by timers on the remote VDR must also be
defined on the local VDR (however, not necessarily in the same sequence).
Automatic channel syncing will be implemented later.
- The main menu of the LCARS skin now displays a small rectangle on the left side
of a timer if this is a remote timer. The color of that rectangle changes if
the timer is currently recording on the remote VDR.
- Accessing the global Timers list now has to be protected by proper locking,
because SVDRP commands are now executed in a separate thread.
The introduction of this locking mechanism required the following changes:
+ The new classes cStateLock and cStateKey are used to implement locking
with quick detection of state changes.
+ cConfig::cConfig() now has a parameter that indicates whether this list
requires locking.
+ The global lists of Timers, Channels, Schedules and Recordings are no longer
static variables. They are now pointers that need to be retrieved through
a call to cTimers::GetTimersRead/Write(), cChannels::GetChannelsRead/Write(),
cSchedules::GetSchedulesRead/Write() and cRecordings::GetRecordingsRead/Write(),
respectively.
+ References from/to link channels are now removed in cChannels::Del() rather
than cChannel::~cChannel(), to make sure the caller holds a proper lock.
+ cChannel::HasTimer() has been removed. This information is now retrieved
via cSchedule::HasTimer().
+ Several member functions of cChannel, cTimer, cMarks and cRecording have
been made 'const', and some of them are now available as both 'const' and
'non-const' versions.
+ The cChannel::Set...() functions are now 'bool' and return true if they have
actually changed any of the channels's members.
+ cChannels::SetModified() has been renamed to cChannels::SetModifiedByUser().
+ cChannels::Modified() has been renamed to cChannels::ModifiedByUser(), and
now has a 'State' parameter that allows the caller to see whether a channel
has been modified since the last call to this function with the same State
variable.
+ The macros CHANNELSMOD_NONE/_AUTO/_USER have been removed.
+ cMarks now requires locking via cStateKey.
+ cSortedTimers now requires a pointer to the list of timers.
+ cEvent::HasTimer() no longer scans the list of timers to check whether an event
is referenced by a timer, but rather keeps score of how many timers reference
it. This was necessary in order to avoid having to lock the list of timers from
within a cEvent.
+ The new class cListGarbageCollector is used to temporary store any objects deleted
from cLists that require locking. This allows pointers to such objects to be
dereferenced even if the objects are no longer part of the list.
+ cListBase::Contains() can be used to check whether a particular object is still
contained in that list.
+ Outdated events are no longer "phased out", but rather deleted right away and thus
taken care of by the new "garbage collector" of the list.
+ Deleted cRecording objects are no longer kept in a list of "vanished" recordings,
but are rather taken care of by the new "garbage collector" of the list.
+ cSchedules::ClearAll() has been removed. The functionality is now implemented
directly in cSVDRPServer::CmdCLRE().
+ tEventID has been changed to u_int16_t in order to make room for the new member
numTimers in cEvent.
+ cSchedule now has a member Modified(), which can be used with a State variable
to quickly determine whether this schedule has been modified since the last call
to this function with the same State variable.
+ cSchedulesLock has been removed. Locking the list of schedules is now done via
the cList's new locking mechanism.
+ The 'OnlyRunningStatus' parameters in cEpgHandler::BeginSegmentTransfer() and
cEpgHandler::EndSegmentTransfer() are now obsolete. They are still present in
the interface for backward compatibility, but may be removed in a future version.
Their value is always 'false'.
+ The constant tcMod is no longer used in cStatus::TimerChange(). The definition is
still there for backward compatibility.
Plugins that access the global lists of Timers, Channels, Recordings or Schedules
will need to be adapted as follows:
+ Instead of directly accessing the global variables Timers, Channels or Recordings,
they need to set up a cStateKey variable and call the proper getter function,
as in
cStateKey StateKey;
if (const cTimers *Timers = cTimers::GetTimersRead(StateKey)) {
// access the timers
StateKey.Remove();
}
and
cStateKey StateKey;
if (cTimers *Timers = cTimers::GetTimersWrite(StateKey)) {
// access the timers
StateKey.Remove();
}
See timers.h, thread.h and tools.h for details on this new locking mechanism.
+ There are convenience macros for easily accessing these lists without having
to explicitly set up a cStateKey and calling its Remove() function. These macros
have the form LOCK_*_READ/WRITE (with '*' being TIMERS, CHANNELS, SCHEDULES or
RECORDINGS). Simply put such a macro before the point where you need to access
the respective list, and there will be a pointer named Timers, Channels, Schedules
or Recordings, respectively, which is valid until the end of the current block.
+ If a plugin needs to access several of the global lists in parallel, locking must
always be done in the sequence Timers, Channels, Recordings, Schedules. This is
necessary to make sure that different threads that need to lock several lists at
the same time don't end up in a deadlock.
+ Some pointer variables may need to be made 'const'. The compiler will tell you
about these.
- cSectionSyncer has been improved to better handle missed sections.
- Added a missing initialization of 'seen' in cChannel's copy constructor.
- Background modifications of channels, timers and events are now displayed immediately
in the corresponding menus.
- cEIT now checks the version of the tables before doing any processing, which saves
a lot of locking and processing.
- If a timer is newly created with the Red button in the Schedule menu, and the timer
is presented to the user in the "Edit timer" menu because it will start immediately,
it now *must* be confirmed with "Ok" to set the timer. Otherwise the timer will not
be created.
- Recordings and deleted recordings are now scanned in a single thread.
- The new SVDRP command POLL is used by automatically established peer-to-peer
connections to trigger fetching remote timers.
- You can now set DumpSVDRPDataTransfer in svdrp.c to true to have all SVDRP
communication printed to the console for debugging.
- Added a missing 'const' to cReceiver::Receive(), to protect the given Data from
being modified.
- The SVDRP commands that deal with timers (DELT, LSTT, MODT, NEWT, NEXT and UPDT)
as well as any log messages that refer to timers, now use a unique id for each
timer, which remains valid as long as this instance of VDR is running. This means
that timers are no longer continuously numbered from 1 to N in LSTT. There may be
gaps in the sequence, in case timers have been deleted.
- The Timers menu now displays the name of the remote VDR in front of the timer's
file name, if this is a remote timer.
- The new options "Setup/Miscellaneous/SVDRP peering", ".../SVDRP host name" and
".../SVDRP default host" can be used to configure automatic peering between VDRs
in the same network. Peering is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting
"SVDRP peering" to "yes".
- The function cTimer::ToText() no longer returns a newline character at the end of
the string. The newline is now added by the caller as necessary. This was changed
because cTimer::ToText() is now also needed in a context where the terminating
newline can't be used. Consequently, cChannel::ToText() and cMark::ToText() have
been modified accordingly.
- All timer related response strings from SVDRP commands now use the channel ID
instead of channel numbers.
- The "Edit timer" menu now has a new parameter "Record on", which can be used to
select the VDR on which this timer shall record. Timers can be freely moved
between connected VDRs by simply selecting the desired machine in this field.
- The SVDRP command DELT no longer checks whether the timer that shall be deleted
is currently recording.
- The character 0x0D is now stripped from EPG texts (reported by Janne Pänkälä).
- The EPG scanner no longer moves the dish if there is a positioner.
- The 'newplugin' script now creates the 'po' subdirectory for translations (thanks
to Thomas Reufer).
- Skins can now implement cSkinDisplayMenu::MenuOrientation() to display horizontal
menus (thanks to Stefan Braun).
- Fixed a possible stack overflow in cListBase::Sort() (thanks to Oliver Endriss).
- Changed the description of the --chartab option in the INSTALL file to refer to
"DVB SI table strings" instead of "EPG data".
- The width and height of the OSD are now limited to the actual maximum dimensions
of the output device, taking into account the top and left offset.
- The new setup option "Recording/Record key handling" can be used to define
what happens if the Record key on the remote control is pressed during
live tv (suggested by Dietmar Spingler).
- Empty adaptation field TS packets are now skipped when recording (thanks to
Christopher Reimer, based on the "AFFcleaner" by Stefan Pöschel).
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 2.1.2
VDR developer version 2.1.2 is now available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.2.tar.bz2
A 'diff' against the previous version is available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.1-2.1.2.diff
MD5 checksums:
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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.
From the HISTORY file:
- Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- Fixed displaying DVB subtitles (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for helping to debug and
understand subtitle page refreshes):
+ Fixed handling DVB subtitle fill region codes for 2 and 8 bpp.
+ Fixed handling pages without an explicit END_OF_DISPLAY_SET_SEGMENT.
The FINISHPAGE_HACK is no longer necessary.
+ Fixed handling "page refreshes". The data is now parsed and stored closer to the
DVB standard specs, introducing "object refs" and "region refs".
+ The debug output now goes into an HTML file named dbg-log.htm and shows the actual
bitmaps (dbg-nnn.jpg) used to display the subtitles. That way it is much easier to
see what's actually going on.
+ Fixed handling subtitles encoded as a string of characters (the very first
character was always skipped).
- Fixed wrong initialization of Setup.PositionerSwing (reported by Arthur Konovalov).
- Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov).
- Fixed cleaning up old EPG events in case no epg data file is given (reported by
Dave Pickles).
- Unified the internal sequence of actions when pressing the Blue and the Back key,
respectively, during replay (reported by Thomas Maass).
- The Yellow button in the main menu no longer acts as "Pause" if "Pause key handling"
is set to "do not pause live video" (suggested by Ulf Kiener).
- The code for distributing recordings over several video directories has been
removed. VDR now by default assumes that the video directory is one big disk.
If you absolutely need to use several separate disks to store recordings, you can
write a plugin that uses the new cVideoDirectory API to implement the necessary
functionality (see PLUGINS.html, section "The video directory"). You can copy the
respective code from previous versions of videodir.c.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you write a plugin that implements a distributed video directory,
=============== be sure to make cVideoDirectory::Rename() follow symbolic links!
This functionality was never implemented in VDR and it therefore
used a workaround in cutter.c. See the section marked with
// XXX this can be removed once RenameVideoFile() follows symlinks
in previous versions of cutter.c.
+ CloseVideoFile() is obsolete and has been removed.
+ The functions OpenVideoFile(), RenameVideoFile(), RemoveVideoFile(), VideoFileSpaceAvailable(),
VideoDiskSpace(), RemoveEmptyVideoDirectories(), IsOnVideoDirectoryFileSystem() and
PrefixVideoFileName() are now static members of cVideoDirectory and need to be called
with the proper prefix.
+ The name of the video directory is now available through cVideoDirectory::Name().
- Added renaming and moving recordings and folders, editing a recording's priority and
lifetime, and queueing cutting jobs (inspired by the "extrecmenu" plugin from Martin
Prochnow).
+ The "Recording info" menu now has a new Blue button named "Edit", which opens a
dialog in which several properties of the selected recording can be changed. It can
be renamed or moved into another folder and its priority and lifetime can be
modified (inspired by the "extrecmenu" plugin from Martin Prochnow).
The new blue "Edit" button in the "Recordings" menu opens a dialog in which a folder
can be renamed or moved. See MANUAL, section "Managing folders".
+ In the "Edit recording" menu the Yellow button ("Delete marks") allows you to delete
all editing marks of the selected recording.
+ cCutter is no longer a static class. Cutting requests should now be invoked by
calling RecordingsHandler.Add(ruCut, FileName). See the new cRecordingsHandler
class in recording.h.
+ Cutting jobs are now placed in a queue (together with any move or copy jobs) and
are processed one by one.
+ The new SVDRP command RENR can be used to rename a recording (suggested by Rolf
Ahrenberg).
+ Note that in several places in the source code a "copy" operation is mentioned,
however there is no user interface for this, yet.
- Changed some variable names in positioner.c to match the names used in the page with
the explanation on vdr-portal.de.
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- Fixed writing group separators to channels.conf that contain a comma (reported by
Eike Edener).
- Now also checking the source (in addition to the transponder) when setting the
system time from the TDT, which avoids problems in case devices are tuned to the
same transponder on different sources, and these broadcast different time data
(reported by Torsten Lang).
- Changed cRecorder::Action() to use cTimeMs instead of time() to avoid problems with
unjustified "video data stream broken" errors in case the system time is changed
while a recording is active (reported by Torsten Lang).
- Revised the section on "Learning the remote control keys" in the INSTALL file to
avoid the impression that there actually is a default remote.conf file, and to
not use any alphabetic keys for special functions, so that they remain available
for textual input.
- The function cRecordings::MBperMinute() now only takes into account recordings with
less than 5 seconds per megabyte, in an attempt to filter out radio recordings
(thanks to Harald Koenig). The result of this function was way off any realistic
value in case there are many radio recordings in the video directory.
- Added maximum signal strength value for TechniSat SkyStar 2 DVB-S rev 2.3P (thanks
to Guido Cordaro).
- Fixed an inconsistent behavior between opening the Recordings menu manually via the
main menu and by pressing the Recordings key. In the latter case it automatically
opened all sub folders to position the cursor to the last replayed recording, which
is unexpected at this point (reported by Helmut Auer). You can still navigate to
the last replayed recording (if any) by pressing Ok repeatedly in the Recordings
menu.
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 2.1.1
VDR developer version 2.1.1 is now available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.1.tar.bz2
A 'diff' against the previous version is available at
ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.0.0-2.1.1.diff
MD5 checksums:
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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 main focus of this version is on adding basic support for positioners
to control steerable satellite dishes. Manually controlling the dish position
and storing individual positions will follow later.
The fixes contained in this version will be released in a stable version 2.0.3
later, if there are no problems.
From the HISTORY file:
- Fixed initializing cDevice::keepTracks.
- Fixed an endless loop in cTextWrapper::Set() in case the given Width is smaller than
one character (reported by Stefan Braun).
- Removed all "modified since version 1.6" markers from PLUGINS.html.
- Added definitions for older DVB API versions, back until 5.0 (based on a patch from
Udo Richter).
- Changed cThread::SetIOPriority() from "best effort class" to "idle class" in order to
improve overall performance when an editing process is running (thanks to Jochen
Dolze).
- Fixed handling '/' and '~' in recording file names in case DirectoryEncoding is
used (thanks to Lars Hanisch).
- Changed the sign of the satellite position value in cSource to reflect the standard
of western values being negative. The new member function cSource::Position() can be
used to retrieve the orbital position of a satellite.
- Fixed multiple occurrences of the same directory in the recordings list in case there
are directories that only differ in non-alphanumeric characters (was broken by
"Fixed selecting the last replayed recording in the Recordings menu in case there
are folders and plain recordings with names that differ only in non-alphanumeric
characters" in version 1.7.36).
- Fixed displaying the frame number when setting an editing mark (thanks to Thomas
Günther).
- Fixed no longer generating any editing marks if the edited recording results in just
one single sequence (reported by Halim Sahin).
- Fixed an error message when parsing SCR values in diseqc.conf.
- Fixed an unexpected RCS version tag in the newplugin script.
- Fixed an endless loop in the DrawEllipse() functions for very small ellipses (reported
by Stefan Braun).
- Fixed a crash in the LCARS skin's main menu in case there is no current channel
(reported by Dominique Dumont).
- Added basic support for positioners to control steerable satellite dishes (based on
a patch from Seppo Ingalsuo and Ales Jurik).
+ Supports GotoN (aka "DiSEqC 1.2") and GotoX (aka "USALS").
+ The new DiSEqC command code 'P' can be used to instruct a positioner to move the
dish to the required satellite position. When a 'P' code is processed, further
execution of the remaining DiSEqC sequence (if any) is postponed until the positioner
has reached the new satellite position.
+ The new special source value of "S360E" can be used in diseqc.conf to indicate that
an entry using a positioner can move the dish to any requested position within its
range. Think of it as "full circle".
+ The devices a particular cDiseqc or cScr applies to are now stored directly in each
cDiseqc or cScr, respectively.
+ A plugin can implement a custom positioner control (see PLUGINS.html, section "Positioners").
+ The new function cSkinDisplayChannel::SetPositioner() can be implemented by skins to
show the user a progress display when the dish is being moved. The default implementation
calls SetMessage() with a string indicating the new position the dish is being moved to.
The LCARS skin shows a progress bar indicating the movement of the dish.
+ The new parameters "Site latitude", "Site longitude", "Positioner speed", and
"Positioner swing" in the "Setup/LNB" menu can be used to configure the necessary
values for a steerable dish.
+ The cDvbTuner now has a new status tsPositioning, in which it waits until a steerable
dish has reached its target position. Parsing SI data is paused until the target
position has been reached.
- The LCARS skin now shows the source value of the current channel in its channel display.
- Fixed asserting free disk space in the cutter.
- No longer trying to delete old recordings in AssertFreeDiskSpace() if the given
Priority is less than 1.
- Fixed handling LIRC events in case repeated events are lost.
- Fixed a possible crash when shutting down VDR while subtitles are being displayed
(reported by Ville Skyttä).
- cDevice::IsPrimaryDevice() now also checks whether the primary device actually has
a decoder and returns false otherwise. This should improve device allocation on
systems that are only used as a receiver and don't actually display anything.
- Increased the value of MAXRETRIES to 20 to reduce the probability of disturbances
in transfer mode.
- All bonded devices (except for the master) now turn off their LNB power completely
to avoid problems when receiving vertically polarized transponders (suggested by
Manfred Völkel and Oliver Endriss).
- Reverted the change from version 1.5.7 that made all logging go to LOG_ERR (thanks
to Christopher Reimer).
- Added Begin/EndSegmentTransfer() to the EPG handler interface (thanks to Jörg Wendel).
- The code for distributing recordings over several video directories is now
deprecated and disabled by default.
You can re-enable this feature by removing the comment sign ('//') from the beginning
of the line
//#define DEPRECATED_DISTRIBUTED_VIDEODIR // Code enclosed with this macro is ...
in the file videodir.c. Note, though, that this can only be a temporary workaround.
This feature will be completely removed in one of the next developer versions.
Distributing the video directory over several disks was a useful feature in times
when disks were still relatively small, but it also caused serious problems in case
one of the disks failed. Nowadays hard disks come in sizes measured in terabytes,
and tools like "mhddfs" can be used to combine several disks to form one large volume.
A recommended method for a relatively safe disk setup in a VDR system is to use two
1TB (or larger) disks and use them as a RAID-1 (mirrored). That way, if one disk
fails, you can replace it without data loss.
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Klaus Schmidinger
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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
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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).
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 1.7.16
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Added missing Dtypes for ATSC (thanks to Alex Lasnier). - Updated the Portuguese language texts (thanks to Cristiano A. Silva). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed the array size of Atypes in cPatFilter::Process() (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Added locking to the cCutter functions to avoid a crash in case CutRecording() is called from a plugin (reported by Andreas Mair). - Fixed DDS detection for HD resolution subtitles (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Fixed following symbolic links in RemoveFileOrDir(). - Added support for languages that are written right-to-left (based on a patch from Osama Alrawab). See INSTALL for information on how to turn this on. - Added Arabian language texts (thanks to Osama Alrawab). |
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 1.7.11
- Fixed resetting the file size when regenerating the index file.
- The new function cDevice::PatPmtParser() can be used in derived devices to access
the PAT/PMT of the currently replayed material.
- Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- The PCR pid in generated PMTs is now set to 0x1FFF ("no PCR pid") in
cPatPmtGenerator::GeneratePmt(), because VDR doesn't record the PCR pid.
- Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov).
- The 'sky' plugin is no longer part of the VDR source.
- Improved SPU handling on devices with limited OSD capabilities (thanks to
Matthieu Castet).
- Several code modifications to avoid compiler warnings (thanks to Winfried Köhler).
- Added stream type 11172 AUDIO to cPatPmtParser::ParsePmt() (thanks to Johann
Friedrichs).
- Removed debug output of '-' from cTransfer::Receive().
- Added defines for large files to the 'newplugin' script (reported by Udo Richter).
- Removed the workaround for short channel names of "Kabel Deutschland", because
apparently they now have their data according to the DVB standard (thanks to
Johann Friedrichs).
- Some fixes to dvbspu.[hc] (thanks to Johann Friedrichs).
- Fixed a busy loop when moving editing marks (thanks to Johann Friedrichs).
- Updated sources.conf (thanks to Derek Kelly).
- Modified cCharSetConv so that it can be used to convert from "whatever VDR uses"
to a given code (thanks to Joachim Wilke).
- Channel names containing commas are now handled correctly in channels.conf.
If a channel's short name contains a comma, it is replaced with a '.'.
- cDevice now logs the device number when a new device is created.
- Fixed handling STREAMTYPE_11172_AUDIO in cPatPmtParser::ParsePmt().
- cParsePatPmt now has functions to retrieve the audio, dolby and subtitle pids.
- cPatFilter::Process() now only stores CA descriptors for video and audio pids
(thanks to Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli for reporting a problem with channels
that have some encrypted components that VDR doesn't use).
- cDevice::AddPid() now stores the stream type of the given pid (thanks to Andreas
Regel).
- Added cFont::FontName() and cFont::Size() (thanks to Andreas Regel).
- cPatPmtParser now also stores the audio stream types.
- The support for full featured DVB cards of the TT/FuSi design has been moved
into the new plugin 'dvbsddevice'. On systems that use such a card as their
primary device, this plugin now needs to be loaded when running VDR in order
to view live or recorded video. If the plugin is not loaded, the card will
be treated like a budget DVB card, and there will be no OSD or viewing
capability.
- Fixed handling the "CA PMT" generation (revised a change not mentioned in version
1.7.9's changes, which caused a malfunction with Conax and Viaccess CAMs).
- Fixed stopping subtitle display when switching the primary device (thanks to
Anssi Hannula).
IMPORTANT NOTE TO PLUGIN AUTHORS: a plugin that implements a derived cDevice
class that can replay video must now call the MakePrimaryDevice() function of
its base class.
- Fixed compiler warnings "format not a string literal and no format arguments"
in some syslog calls (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- The new command line options --edit and --genindex can be used to edit a
recording or generate its index without actually starting the entire VDR
(based on a patch from Helmut Auer).
- Improved the description of the transponder parameters in vdr.5 (thanks to
Winfried Köhler).
- Avoiding setting the video stream type to 2 if the vpid is 0 (problem reported
by Arthur Konovalov).
- Implemented handling the "Content Descriptor" (based on a patch from Rolf
Ahrenberg). The 'classic', 'sttng' and 'curses' skins display the textual
representation of the content descriptors as "genre". The epg.data file stores
the genre using the tag character 'G'.
- Implemented handling the "Parental Rating Descriptor" (based on a patch from Rolf
Ahrenberg). The 'classic', 'sttng' and 'curses' skins display the parental
rating (if given) in their event displays. The epg.data file stores
the parental rating using the tag character 'R'.
IMPORTANT NOTE: if VDR doesn't display a parental rating, this does not
necessarily mean that the given programme is suitable for all audiences!
- Rearranged cEvent members to minimize memory waste.
- After a CLRE command, no further EPG processing is now done for 10 seconds,
so that data sent with subsequent PUTE commands doesn't interfere with data
from the broadcasters (suggested by Helmut Auer).
- Added support for DVB cards with multiple fontends. Note that this only
works for DVB cards where each frontend can be used independently of all
the others on the same adapter.
- Fixed plugin arguments corruption with glibc 2.11 on x86_64 (thanks to
Anssi Hannula).
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 1.7.0
- Re-implemented handling of DVB-S2, which first appeared in version 1.5.14, but was revoked in version 1.5.15 in favor of making a stable version 1.6.0. VDR now requires the "multiproto" DVB driver, e.g. from http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto. Note that the channels.conf file now supports additional parameters, so you may want to make sure you have a backup of this file in case you need to go back to the previous version of VDR! - Fixed displaying transponder data when it is modified (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Fixed handling the counter in detection of pre 1.3.19 PS data (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Improved logging system time changes to avoid problems on slow systems under heavy load (suggested by Helmut Auer). - Now setting the thread name, so that it can be seen in 'top -H' (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed initializing the timer's flags in the cTimer copy constructor (thanks to Andreas Mair). - Fixed setting the OSD level in the 'osddemo' example (thanks to Wolfgang Rohdewald). - Increased the time between checking the CAM status to 500ms to avoid problems with some CAMs (reported by Arthur Konovalov). |
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Klaus Schmidinger
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Version 1.1.4
- Added Hungarian language texts (thanks to Istvan Koenigsberger and Guido Josten). - Activated cutting. - Activated 'Transfer Mode'. - Moved handling of the Menu key entirely into vdr.c. - Switched VDR's own player to the new cPlayer/cControl structures. - Switched handling 'Transfer Mode' to the new cPlayer/cControl structures. - The following limitations apply to this version: + The '-a' option (for Dolby Digital audio) doesn't work yet. + Switching between different language tracks doesn't work yet. |