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Klaus Schmidinger	ec0ec6da01	Version 2.3.2 ... Merry Christmas to all VDR users! It's been a very busy year for me, in which I was unable to spend as much time on VDR as I would have liked to. But now things are settled again and I managed to prepare a new developer version with the most important fixes and improvements. Please feel free to tell me if I missed something important - some things may well have slipped under my radar ;-). So here's my Christmas gift for you! VDR developer version 2.3.2 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.3.2.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.3.1-2.3.2.diff MD5 checksums: 6dbb208ea3d59658a18912b49af175b3 vdr-2.3.2.tar.bz2 68a0ed9f01048026333939d30e0a6474 vdr-2.3.1-2.3.2.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. From the HISTORY file: - Fixed a crash when deleting a recording (reported by Oliver Endriss). - Fixed an overflow of PIDs in a receiver (thanks to Robert Hannebauer). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed initializing device specific parameters in cDvbTransponderParameters. - The function SetCurrentChannel(const cChannel *Channel) is now deprecated and may be removed in a future version. Use SetCurrentChannel(int ChannelNumber) instead. - The SVDRP command DELC now refuses to delete the very last channel in the list, to avoid ending up with an empty channel list. - The cRwLock class now allows nested read locks within a write lock from the same thread. This fixes possible crashes when moving or deleting channels in the menu or through SVDRP (as well as other operations that try to acquire a read lock within a write lock). - Fixed a crash when trying to delete a channel that is being used by a timer. - Fixed setting the current item and counter values in the Recordings menu after deleting the last recording in a subfolder. - Fixed a crash when deleting a recording that is currently being replayed. - Fixed a crash when moving a recording to a folder on a different volume. The cRecordingsHandler now performs its actual operations in a separate thread, thus avoiding locking problems and reducing the time between subsequent operations. - Added a note to the description of cFont::Size(), regarding possible differences between it and cFont::Height() (suggested to Thomas Reufer). - Made the cPlayer member functions FramesPerSecond, GetIndex and GetReplayMode 'const' (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Fixed resuming replay at a given position, which was off by one frame (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Improved handling frame numbers to have a smoother progress display during replay of recordings with B-frames (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Fixed replaying recordings to their very end, if they don't end with an I-frame (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Implemented a frame parser for H.265 (HEVC) recordings (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Added cFont::Width(void) to get the default character width and allow stretched font drawing in high level OSDs (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Fixed regenerating the index of audio recordings (thanks to Thomas Reufer). - Fixed building VDR with systemd >= 230 (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - Sorted sources.conf by continous azimuth (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Added 'S58.5E Kazsat 3' to sources.conf (thanks to Aitugan Sarbassov). - Fixed truncated date/time strings in the skins on multi-byte UTF-8 systems (reported by Sergey Chernyavskiy). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Added a 'const' version of cTimers::GetTimer() (thanks to Lars Hanisch). - Fixed a typo in the description of cTimers::GetTimersRead() (thanks to Lars Hanisch). - Fixed a possible buffer overflow in handling CA descriptors (suggested by Lars Hanisch). - Avoiding some duplicate code and unnecessary work in nit.c (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - Added support for the systemd watchdog (thanks to Marc Perrudin), - Added a short sleep to cTSBuffer::Action() to avoid high CPU usage (thanks to Sergey Chernyavskiy).	2017-02-01 00:05:46 +01:00
Klaus Schmidinger	a26aae3ce8	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 MD5 checksums: 391c2ed60e2f7d24563fe3ed5854bc4f vdr-2.3.1.tar.bz2 983fd4bad7d19cd98301d54173107129 vdr-2.2.0-2.3.1.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. *** 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).	2015-09-18 00:04:12 +02:00
Klaus Schmidinger	bb4ef3b380	Version 2.1.9 ... VDR developer version 2.1.9 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.9.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.8-2.1.9.diff MD5 checksums: 59a63596f3fcfe7c81df8e92b4486f78 vdr-2.1.9.tar.bz2 e70d236f79bee5110f763a8109dba3d9 vdr-2.1.8-2.1.9.diff Approaching version 2.2.0: ========================== If there are no more serious bug reports, the final version 2.2.0 of VDR shall be released on February 19, 2015, which marks the 15th anniversary of VDR. So please test this developer version intensely and report any problems you might encounter as soon as possible. The following language files still have the given number of untranslated texts: ar.po: 51 ca_ES.po: 51 cs_CZ.po: 51 da_DK.po: 184 el_GR.po: 247 es_ES.po: 51 et_EE.po: 4 fi_FI.po: 1 fr_FR.po: 51 hr_HR.po: 184 it_IT.po: 4 lt_LT.po: 4 mk_MK.po: 51 nl_NL.po: 51 nn_NO.po: 312 pl_PL.po: 51 pt_PT.po: 79 ro_RO.po: 1 ru_RU.po: 51 sk_SK.po: 51 sl_SI.po: 52 sr_RS.po: 51 sv_SE.po: 51 tr_TR.po: 184 uk_UA.po: 4 zh_CN.po: 51 If nobody takes care of these, they will remain untranslated in version 2.2.0. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING TRANSLATIONS IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18! From the HISTORY file: - Fixed a memory leak in case of broken Extended Event Descriptors (thanks to Lars Hanisch). - Fixed the German translation of "Binary skip timeout (s)" (thanks to Matthias Senzel). - Fixed the German translation of "VDR will shut down later - press Power to force". - Fixed the Finnish translation of "Binary skip timeout (s)" (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras). - Added SDNOTIFY to Make.config.template (suggested by Christian Richter). Also added NO_KBD and BIDI. - Added code from the "jumpplay" patch that makes the recording still be considered unviewed when stopping replay within RESUMEBACKUP seconds of the first mark. - The new option "Setup/Replay/Alternate behavior for adaptive skipping" can be used to make adaptive skipping only halve the skip distance when the direction changes. That way you can reach the desired point in a recording even if you make one too many skips in a certain direction (see MANUAL for details). - Fixed cCamSlot::Assign(), so that it actually ignores the value of Query if Device is NULL (as described in the header file). - Added a missing VDRDIR="$(CWD)" to the clean-plugins target of the Makefile, to avoid error messages regarding the missing vdr.pc file. - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Updated the Ukrainian OSD texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk). - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to István Füley). - Fixed switching channels in the Schedule menu after going through various Now and Schedule menus for different channels (reported by Matthias Senzel). - Fixed setting the Blue button in the Schedule/Now/Next menus, so that it only shows "Switch" if the selected event is on a different channel. - Added "NORDIG" to the list of "DVB/Standard compliance" options and using it to restrict the LCN (Logical Channel Numbers) parsing to networks that actually use this non-standard feature (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - In the "Edit recording" menu the '0' key can now be used on the "Name:" field to remove the name of the recording and replace it with the last element of the recording's folder path name (suggested by Christoph Haubrich). See MANUAL, section "Managing folders" for details. - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Nino Gerbino). - The "Select folder" menu now adds the folder names of all existing recordings to any names that have been predefined in "folders.conf" (suggested by Sören Moch). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed the German translations of "latitude" and "longitude" (they were swapped). - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to Mario Fenneis). - Modified runvdr.template to improve compatibility with the "bash" and "dash" shells. - Changed the German translations if the texts related to "binary skipping" (based on a suggestion by Thomas Reufer). - Updated sources.conf to reflect the fact that Astra 4A and SES5 are actually in two separate positions (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Fixed cMarks::GetNextBegin() and cMarks::GetNextEnd() (thanks to Stefan Herdler). The behavior of these two functions is now exacly as described in the header file. Editing marks that are placed at exactly the same offset in a recording are now preserved in the cutting process. - Changed the naming of "binary skip mode" to "adaptive skip mode" (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg and Derek Kelly). - cDvbPlayer and cReplayControl now use the same list of editing marks. This avoids inconsistent behavior with the "Skip edited parts" or "Pause replay at last mark" functions when the editing marks are manipulated during replay. - Fixed setting an empty recording name or folder to a blank in the "Edit recording" menu (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Added a confirmation before renaming a recording to its folder name (suggested by Christoph Haubrich). - Modified EntriesOnSameFileSystem(), so that it returns 'true' if either of the given files doesn't exist (to avoid any actions that might be triggered if files are on different file system), and changed handling the 'error' variable in cDirCopier, so that it is initialized to 'true' and will only be set to 'false' if the entire copy process has been successful (problem reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Added the UPDATE-2.2.0 file.	2015-02-08 15:47:29 +01:00
Klaus Schmidinger	4ee983a294	Version 2.1.8 ... VDR developer version 2.1.8 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.8.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.7-2.1.8.diff MD5 checksums: 1d2751e87def9b18b448513f24e635e9 vdr-2.1.8.tar.bz2 0487e037278f6f6684a7933674910f05 vdr-2.1.7-2.1.8.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. From the HISTORY file: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed "warning: invalid suffix on literal" with GCC 4.8 and C++11 (thanks to Joerg Bornkessel). - Fixed the link to "svdrpsend (1)" in the vdr.1 man page (thanks to Chris Mayo). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Added functionality based on the "jumpplay" patch from Torsten Kunkel and Thomas Günther: + The new option "Setup/Replay/Pause replay when jumping to a mark" can be used to turn off pausing replay when jumping to an editing mark with the '9' key. + The new option "Setup/Replay/Skip edited parts" can be used to automatically skip the edited parts of a recording during replay, without the need to actually cut the recording. + The new option "Setup/Replay/Pause replay at last mark" can be used to make replay go into Pause mode when it has reached the last "end" mark. + The '8' key for testing an edited sequence now also jumps to the next *end* mark if "Setup/Replay/Skip edited parts" is active. This allows for testing edits in recordings that have actually been cut, as well as recordings that have not been cut, in case "Skip edited parts" is enabled. - Added support for "Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) according to EN50607, also known as "JESS" (thanks to Manfred Völkel and Frank Neumann). - The keys '1' and '3' can now be used in replay mode to position an editing mark in "binary" mode (based on a patch from Rolf Ahrenberg, with modifications by Helmut Auer). See MANUAL, section "Editing a Recording". - The Yellow button in the "Setup/CAM" menu can now be used to put the selected CAM into a mode where it remains assigned to a device that is tuned to the current channel until the smart card it contains is activated and the CAM thus starts to descramble (see MANUAL, section "Setup/CAM" for details). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Added ARGSDIR to the ONEDIR section of Make.config.template (suggested by Derek Kelly). - Made cRecording::GetResume() public (suggested by Stefan Braun). - Fixed setting the read index in cDvbPlayer::Goto() in case Still is false. - The function cDvbPlayer::Goto() now automatically calls Play() if Still is false. - Added support for LCN (Logical Channel Numbers), which plugins may use to sort channels (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).	2015-02-01 16:58:18 +01:00
Klaus Schmidinger	5076cfb2ed	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: b17f9838bb8ddee9620f838fea7a171d vdr-2.1.1.tar.bz2 8b8ca593885c380cd370e6d19a5b16a1 vdr-2.0.0-2.1.1.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 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.	2013-08-25 18:40:45 +02:00
Klaus Schmidinger	c2d9577b3d	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: ======== 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).	2012-02-19 16:36:45 +01:00
Klaus Schmidinger	771986b89f	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).	2008-04-13 18:00:00 +02:00
Klaus Schmidinger	54d069c95c	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.	2002-06-23 18:00:00 +02:00
Klaus Schmidinger	f06d2c27fc	Version 1.1.3 ... - Improved the VDR Makefile to avoid a warning if the '.dependencies' file does not exist, and also using $(MAKE) to call recursive makes. - Changed the name of the 'package' target in the plugin Makefiles to 'dist' (following the suggestions in the "GNU Make" manual). If you already have started a plugin project, you may want to change this in your Makefile accordingly. - Improved the plugin Makefile to avoid a warning if the '.dependencies' file does not exist, and also using $(shell...) to get the version numbers. If you already have started a plugin project, you may want to change this in your Makefile accordingly. - Fixed some function headers to make them compile with gcc 3.x (thanks to Gregoire Favre). - Fixed the cutting mechanism to make it re-sync in case a frame is larger than the buffer (thanks to Sven Grothklags). - Added an error message if the directory specified in the '-L' option can't be accessed (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt). - Rearranged OSD class names to make 'cOsd' available for the main OSD interface. - Completely moved OSD handling out of the cDvbApi class, into the new cOsd. - Implemented cStatus to allow plugins to set up a status monitor. See PLUGINS.html for details. - Moved the cEITScanner out of dvbapi.h/.c, into the new eitscan.h/.c. - Added Swedish language texts (thanks to Tomas Prybil). - Fixed parsing 'E' records in epg2html.pl (thanks to Matthias Fechner for pointing out this one). - Removed compiler option '-m486' to make it work on non-Intel platforms. If you have already started a plugin project, you may want to make sure you remove this option from your existing Makefile. - Completely rearranged the recording and replay functions to make them available to plugins. - Replay is now done in a single thread (no more syncing between input and output thread necessary). - It is now possible to record several channels on the same transponder with "budget cards". VDR automatically attaches a recording timer to a card that already records on the appropriate transponder. How many parallel recordings can actually be done depends on the computer's performance. Currently any number of recordings gets attached to a card, so you should carefully plan your timers to not exceed the limit. On a K6-II/450 it was possible to record three channels from transponder 12480 with a single WinTV NOVA-S. - Timers that record two successive shows on the same channel may now overlap and will use the same DVB card. During the time where both timers record the data is simply saved to both files. - The following limitations apply to this version: + Transfer mode doesn't work yet. + The '-a' option (for Dolby Digital audio) doesn't work yet. + Switching between different language tracks doesn't work yet. + Cutting doesn't work yet.	2002-06-16 18:00:00 +02:00