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This is a summary of the changes in VDR 2.0.0 since the last stable
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version 1.6.0. It only contains things that are of actual importance
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to the user and doesn't mention the many fixes and improvements that
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have been made "behind the scenes".
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See the file HISTORY for a detailed list of all changes.
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Full support for HDTV:
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- VDR now fully supports HDTV.
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Satellite Channel Routing:
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- VDR now supports "Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) according to EN50494 (based on
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the "unicable" patch).
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Since "Unicable" is a registered trademark and stands for only one of many
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implementations of SCR, the following changes have been made compared to the patch,
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which need to be taken into account by people who have set up their system using
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the patch:
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- The 'U' parameter in the diseqc.conf file has been changed to 'S' ("Scr").
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- The configuration file name has been changed from "unicable.conf" to "scr.conf".
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Device Bonding:
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- The new setup options "LNB/Device n connected to sat cable" can be used to define
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which DVB-S devices are connected to the same sat cable and are therefore "bonded".
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This obsoletes the LNBSHARE patch. Users of the LNBSHARE patch will need to newly
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set up their sat devices with the above options.
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Subtitles:
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- Implemented handling of HD resolution subtitles according to v1.3.1 of
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ETSI EN 300 743, chapter 7.2.1.
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- Fixed handling DVB subtitles and implemented decoding textual DVB subtitles.
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Plugins:
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- Added cDevice::NumProvidedSystems() to PLUGINS.html (was missing since it had
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been implemented).
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- The 'sky' plugin is no longer part of the VDR source.
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- IMPORTANT NOTE TO PLUGIN AUTHORS: a plugin that implements a derived cDevice
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class that can replay video must now call the MakePrimaryDevice() function of
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its base class.
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- Implemented cDeviceHook to allow plugins more control over which device can
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provide which transponder.
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- Plugins can now define new sources. In order to implement this, the following
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changes were made:
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+ The transponder parameter string is no longer interpreted by cChannel, but rather
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stored as is and used only by the respective device. That way plugins can use a
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channel's parameter string to store arbitrary data (see vdr.5).
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+ The new class cSourceParam can be used by plugins to define new sources, and to
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implement OSD items that will be used in the channel editor for editing the source
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specific parameters of a channel (see dvbdevice.c for an example of how this is
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done for the default DVB devices).
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+ Purely numerical values are no longer accepted in the 'source' parameter of a
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channel.
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This obsoletes the PLUGINPARAM patch.
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- The dvbhddevice plugin is now part of the VDR distribution archive.
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- The pic2mpg script of the 'pictures' plugin now generates HD images.
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The old SD version is still available as pic2mpg-sd.
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- The dvbsddevice plugin now supports the new option --outputonly, which disables
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receiving on SD FF devices and uses the device only for output.
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- The code for the RCU remote control unit has been moved into a separate plugin
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named "rcu".
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The REMOTE=RCU option in the 'make' call for VDR is now obsolete.
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The command line option --rcu is now obsolete. Use -Prcu instead. If you have
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used --rcu with a device path, use -P"rcu -d<device>".
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- Removed the obsolete function cEITScanner::UsesDevice(). If a plugin has used this
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function to find out whether a call to its cStatus::ChannelSwitch() function was
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due to a live channel switch, it can use that function's new parameter LiveView.
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Any plugins that implement cStatus::ChannelSwitch() need to add the parameter
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'bool LiveView' to that function.
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- Added a new plugin interface for implementing EPG handlers.
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+ A plugin can implement an EPG handler by creating an object derived from
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cEpgHandler and implementing the necessary member functions.
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+ The special handling of events with table id 0x00 has been dropped.
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For backwards compatibility EPG events with table ids lower than 0x4E will
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be treated as if they had a table id of 0x4E, and the new plugin 'epgtableid0'
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can be used to have them handled like in previous versions.
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+ The default table id for a newly created cEvent has been changed to 0xFF,
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which is higher than any normal table id that is broadcast in the EIT data.
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See PLUGINS.html, section "Electronic Program Guide" for more information.
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- The cThread constructor now has an additional boolean parameter that can be set to
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true to have this thread run at a lower priority. Plugin authors that use low
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priority threads may want to use this instead of the calls to SetPriority(19) and
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SetIOPriority(7). The priority of a thread ("low" or "high") is now logged when the
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thread starts.
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- The plugin Makefiles now have a separate 'install' target.
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- Plugin Makefiles now use DESTDIR and the 'install' program.
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- Plugin Makefiles can now include a configuration file for compile time parameters.
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- Plugins that implement an interface to any kind of remote controls shall use the
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new parameters Setup.RcRepeatDelay and Setup.RcRepeatDelta to allow the user to
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adjust the behavior of the remote control's repeat function. They shall also
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remove any setup options they might have that serve the same purpose.
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- Added demos of the DrawEllipse() and DrawSlope() function to the 'osddemo'
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plugin (press '1' or '2', respectively).
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Skins:
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- The 'sttng' skin now displays two colored bars at the bottom of the channel display,
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indicating the strength (upper bar) and quality (lower bar) of the received signal.
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The number to the left of these bars indicates the actual device the current
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channel is being received with.
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- Skins can now inquire the menu category for which their cSkinDisplayMenu is currently
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being used. This can be done either through a call to cSkinDisplayMenu::MenuCategory()
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or by reimplementing cSkinDisplayMenu::SetMenuCategory(). This information allows a
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skin to use special icons or decorations for the various types of menus in VDR.
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- The new member function cSkinDisplayReplay::SetRecording() allows a skin to display
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more information about the currently played recording.
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- The new skin "LCARS" is an enhanced version of the "ST:TNG" skin (which is still
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there in its original layout, for those who don't like the LCARS skin, or can't use
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it due to OSD limitations). The LCARS skin utilizes the new "menu category" feature
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to display additional information on the main menu page. It shows upcoming timers
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and the system's devices, as well as which device is recording which timers. The
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upper pane of the main menu displays the programme data in live and replay mode,
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and a progress bar. An indicator on the right side of the device list shows which
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device is currently used for live viewing, and whether it is in transfer mode.
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The individual device displays show the device number, the device type, which CAM
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(if any ) is currently assigned to the device, and the signal strength and quality.
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On the left side of the OSD there is a permanent display of the current date and
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time, the disk usage and the system load.
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"LCARS" is the new default skin of VDR. It requires at least a 4bpp (16 color) full
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screen OSD, but you can still operate it if your OSD can handle only fewer colors
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(in which case you may want to switch to the "ST:TNG" or "Classic VDR" skin).
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- The new functions SetItemEvent(), SetItemTimer(), SetItemChannel() and
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SetItemRecording() of the cSkinDisplayMenu class can be reimplemented by skin
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plugins to display these items in a more elaborate way than just a simple line of
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text.
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Remote control:
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- Changed the default location for the LIRC socket to /var/run/lirc/lircd.
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- The new setup options "OSD/Color key [0123]" can be used to adjust the sequence
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of the color buttons displayed in the menus to that of the color keys on your
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remote control.
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Authors of plugins that implement skins may want to adapt their SetButtons()
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function in order to make use of this new feature. See, for instance, the function
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cSkinClassicDisplayMenu::SetButtons() in skinclassic.c for details.
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- Added user defined key kUser0.
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- The new remote control key "Play/Pause" can be used with remote controls that don't
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have separate keys for "Play" and "Pause", but rather have a single key for both
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functions.
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- The new options "Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delay" and
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"Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delta" can be used to adjust the
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behavior of the remote control in case a key is held pressed down for a while, so
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that the repeat function kicks in.
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Devices:
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- Re-implemented handling of DVB-S2, which first appeared in version 1.5.14, but was
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revoked in version 1.5.15 in favor of making a stable version 1.6.0.
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Note that the channels.conf file now supports additional parameters, so you may
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want to make sure you have a backup of this file in case you need to go back to
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the previous version of VDR!
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- cDvbDevice now uses the FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION flag to determine whether a device
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can handle DVB-S2.
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- The support for full featured DVB cards of the TT/FuSi design has been moved
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into the new plugin 'dvbsddevice'. On systems that use such a card as their
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primary device, this plugin now needs to be loaded when running VDR in order
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to view live or recorded video. If the plugin is not loaded, the card will
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be treated like a budget DVB card, and there will be no OSD or viewing
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capability.
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- Added support for DVB cards with multiple fontends. Note that this only
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works for DVB cards where each frontend can be used independently of all
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the others on the same adapter.
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- Added support for ATSC devices. This obsoletes the ATSC patch.
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- The new functions cDevice::SignalStrength() and cDevice::SignalQuality() can be
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used to determine the signal strength and quality of a given device.
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- The new function cDevice::ProvidesEIT() is used to determine whether a device can
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provide EIT data and will thus be used in cEITScanner::Process() to receive EIT
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data from the channels it can receive. Note that by default it is assumed that
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a device can't provide EIT data, and only the builtin cDvbDevice returns true
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from this function.
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- Added support for devices with more than one delivery system per frontend.
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This requires a DVB driver with version 5.5 or higher that can handle the
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DTV_ENUM_DELSYS call. With older drivers it will fall back to one delivery
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system per frontend.
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- Added support for handling DVB-T2 transponders. This requires a DVB driver
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with version 5.3 or higher that can handle the DTV_DVBT2_PLP_ID call (which has
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been renamed to DTV_STREAM_ID in DVB API 5.8).
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- The DVB device adapters/frontends are now probed by scanning the /dev/dvb directory
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instead of looping through adapter/frontend numbers. This allows for "holes" in the
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device numbering.
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- Removed the "PrimaryLimit". Old "full featured" DVB cards can be run with the
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--outputonly option to avoid problems with recording high bandwidth channels.
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Besides, with HDTV becoming ever more popular those cards are pretty much obsolete
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by now (the TT S2-6400 has no problems recording and replaying high bandwidth
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channels simultaneously). And, last but not least, people using software players
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won't notice this change, anyway.
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- The new function cDevice::DeviceName() returns a string identifying the name of
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the given device.
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- The new function cDevice::DeviceType() returns a string identifying the type of
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the given device.
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- The new function cDevice::ReadFilter() can be used by devices to implement their
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own way of retrieving section filter data.
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- The new function cDevice::HasInternalCam() can be implemented by devices that
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provide encrypted channels in an already decrypted form, without requiring explicit
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handling of a CAM.
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- The new functions cDevice::CanScaleVideo() and cDevice::ScaleVideo() can be used by
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derived output devices to implement scaling the video to a given size and location.
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- Added support for DVB-S2 and DVB-T2 transponders that use "multi streaming".
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DiSEqC:
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- Added device definitions to the diseqc.conf file format, so that certain satellite
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positions can be limited to a given list of devices.
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This obsoletes the SOURCECAPS patch.
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- Transponders that use "8psk turbo fec" (a non-standard mode used by North American
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providers) are now identified by assuming that all 8psk transponders on DVB-S use
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"turbo fec".
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EPG:
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- The epg.data file is now read in a separate thread to make the startup process
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faster in case the file is very large.
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- Moved cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data file into a separate
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thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems
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OSD:
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- The OSD and font sizes are now defined in percent of the actual video display
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size. The maximum OSD size has been raised to 1920x1080, to allow full
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screen OSD on HD systems.
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- The OSD size is now automatically adjusted to the actual video display
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(provided the output device implements the GetOsdSize() function).
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- The OSD now has full TrueColor support. There can be several "pixmaps" that can
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be overlaid with alpha blending. All existing skins should work out of the box
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with the TrueColor OSD - the only exception being cOsd::GetBitmap(). Since the
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TrueColor OSD doesn't use bitmaps, this function will return a dummy bitmap, which
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may not be what the plugin expects. As long as this bitmap is only used for setting
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the palette, there is no problem. However, any other operations on this bitmap will
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have no effect. See the description of the cPixmap functions in osd.h for details
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about the new functionalities.
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The "ST:TNG Panels" skin has been enhanced to automatically use the TrueColor OSD
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if available.
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The "osddemo" plugin has been extended to show some of the possibilities of the
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TrueColor OSD if it is run on a system that actually provides TrueColor support.
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- The Audio and Subtitles options are now available through the Green and Yellow
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keys in the Setup/DVB menu. This is mainly for remote controls that don't have
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dedicated keys for these functions.
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- The Recordings menu now displays the length (in hours:minutes) of each recording
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Note that the "new" indicator has been moved from the recording time to the length
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column. This new format is also used by the SVDRP command LSTR, so in case you have
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an application that parses the LSTR output, you will need to adjust it to the new
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format.
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- The new setup option "Replay/Show remaining time" can be used to switch between
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showing the total length or the remaining time of the recording that is currently
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replayed.
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- The replay progress display is now turned on whenever a mark is toggled (not
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only when one is set).
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- The Green button in the "Edit timer" menu can now be used to toggle between single
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shot and repeating timers. This is the same as pressing '0' when the "Day" field
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is selected, but it works at any time (and is more obvious).
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- When estimating the remaining disk space (in hours), the average data rate of all
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existing recordings is now taken into account. If this value can't be determined,
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the previous value of 25.75 MB/min is taken.
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- The disk usage is no longer automatically added to the title of the main and
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"Recordings" menus. This has always been a mekeshift solution and it is now up
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to the individual skin if, where and how it wants to display this information.
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A skin can use the new cVideoDiskUsage class to implement such a display. For
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compatibility, the default skins "Classic VDR", "ST:TNG Panels" and "Text mode"
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(i.e. curses) have been changed to behave like before. Other skins may want to
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display the disk usage in totally different ways.
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- A cOsdMenu can now handle skins that display different numbers of items in the
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various menu categories.
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- OSD and skin are now reinitialized after a plugin setup page has been confirmed,
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to have them react immediately in case any change to a plugin's setup parameter
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has an effect on the OSD.
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- Now making sure that the "small font" is never larger than the "osd font".
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- Within the "Recordings" menu, pressing the '0' key now toggles sorting between
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"by time" and "by name". The selected sort mode is stored separately for each
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folder (provided you have write access to that folder).
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If a folder is newly created by a repeating timer, the sort mode for that
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folder is initially set to "by time".
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Note that in previous versions the default sort order of the top level video
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directory was "by name" and all subdirectories were sorted "by time". Now the
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default sort order for all directories is "by name", so if you have an existing
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folder that shall be sorted "by time", press the '0' key once to achieve this.
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- The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Show channel names with source" can be used to
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turn on adding the source character to channel names whenever they are displayed.
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- Pressing the Play key during normal live viewing mode now opens the Recordings menu
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if there is no "last viewed" recording.
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The same behavior has been implemented for the Blue key in the main menu.
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- The new option "Setup/Replay/Progress display time" can be used to activate
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automatically displaying the progress display whenever replay of a recording is
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started.
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Time Shifting:
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- The new setup option "Recording/Pause key handling" can be used to define
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what happens if the Pause key on the remote control is pressed during
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live tv.
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- The new setup option "Recording/Delete timeshift recording" controls whether a timeshift
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recording is automatically deleted after viewing it.
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This obsoletes the DELTIMESHIFTREC patch.
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Note that the meaning of the values for this option is different from the DELTIMESHIFTREC
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patch: 0 means timeshift recordings are not automatically deleted (the default behavior
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as in previous versions), while 1 means to ask the user whether the recording shall be
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deleted.
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- The setup parameter "Recording/Instant rec. time (min)" can now be set to '0',
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which means to record only the currently running event.
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- When pausing live video, the current audio and subtitle tracks are now retained.
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Timers:
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- The "Edit timer" menu can now set the folder for the recording from a list of
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folders stored in "folders.conf".
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- The file name in the "Timers" menu now shows only the base name of the recording
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without the folder path (if any). Otherwise with long folder paths the actual
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recording name was not visible at all.
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- The new setup option "Folders in timer menu" controls whether the file names in
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the timer menu are shown with their full folder path.
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Recordings:
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- The recording format is now TS (Transport Stream).
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Existing recordings in PES format can still be replayed and edited, but new
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recordings are done in TS.
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All code for recording in PES has been removed.
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The following changes were made to switch to TS recording format:
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+ Since a TS needs to have a PAT/PMT, which requires the video stream type to
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be explicitly given, the format of the VPID field in the channels.conf file
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and the SVDRP commands NEWC/MODC/LSTC has been extended. The video stream type
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now follows the VPID and optional PPID, separated by an '=' sign.
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+ The index file format has been changed to support file sizes of up to 1TB
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(previously 2GB), and up to 65535 separate files per recording (previously
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255).
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+ The recording file names are now of the form 00001.ts (previously 001.vdr).
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+ The frame rate is now detected by looking at two subsequent PTS values.
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The "frames per second" is stored in the "info" file using the new tag F.
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+ The directory name for a recording has been changed from
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YYYY-MM-DD-hh[.:]mm.pr.lt.rec (pr=priority, lt=lifetime) to
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YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ch-ri.rec (ch=channel, ri=resumeId).
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Priority and Lifetime are now stored in the "info" file with the new
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tags P and L (if no such file exists, the maximum values are assumed by
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default, which avoids inadvertently deleting a recording if disk space
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is low). No longer storing Priority and Lifetime in the directory name
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avoids starting a new recording if one of these is changed in the timer
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and the recording is re-started for some reason.
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Instead of Priority and Lifetime, the directory name now contains the
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channel number from which the recording was made, and the "instance id"
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this instance of VDR. This avoids problems if several VDR instances record
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the same show on different channels, or even on the same channel.
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The '-' between channel number and resumeId prevents older versions of
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VDR from "seeing" these recordings, which makes sure they won't even try
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to replay them, or remove them in case the disk runs full.
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+ The files "index", "info", "marks" and "resume" within a TS recording
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directory are now created without the ".vdr" extension.
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+ The "resume" file is no longer a binary file, but contains tagged lines
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to be able to store additional information, like the selected audio or
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subtitle track.
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+ cDvbPlayer::Goto() no longer appends a "sequence end code" to the data.
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If the output device needs this, it has to take care of it by itself.
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- The index file for TS recordings is now regenerated on-the-fly if a
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recording is replayed that has no index. This can also be used to
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re-create a broken index file by manually deleting the index file and then
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replaying the recording (at least until the index file has been generated).
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- The new command line options --edit and --genindex can be used to edit a
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recording or generate its index without actually starting the entire VDR.
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- The new command line options --filesize and --split can be used together with --edit
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to set the maximum video file size and turn on splitting edited files at the editing
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marks. These options must be given before --edit to have an effect.
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- The start time of an edited recording is now set to the time of the first
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editing mark.
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This obsoletes the CUTTIME patch.
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- An ongoing editing process is now canceled if either the original or the edited
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version of the recording is deleted from the Recordings menu.
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- If a frame position in the 'marks' file of a recording doesn't point to an I-frame,
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it will now be shifted towards the next I-frame (either up or down, whichever is
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closer).
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- Editing marks can now be placed directly on top of each other, in which case they
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simply mark a position, but have no effect on the actual cutting process.
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- When positioned at an offset where two (or more) editing marks are placed on top
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of each other, the '4' key moves the first one of them to the left, while the '6'
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key moves the last one of them to the right. The '7' and '9' key handle multiple
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marks at the same place as if it were one single mark.
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- The '7' and '9' keys now jump to the very beginning or end, respectively, of the
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recording, even if there is no mark set at that point.
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- The new option "Setup/Replay/Pause on mark set" can be used to activate automatically
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going into Pause mode if an editing mark is set during replay.
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- Timers no longer do any special "VFAT" handling to shorten directory names to 40
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characters. When a string is used as a directory name for a recording, the maximum
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length of the directory path, as well as the individual directory names, is now
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limited to the values specified by the new command line option --dirnames (see
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man vdr(1) for details). For backwards compatibility the option --vfat is still
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available and has the same effect as --dirnames=250,40,1.
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- Improved cutting videos.
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SVDRP:
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- The SVDRP signon message now indicates the character encoding in use, as in
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"220 video SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 1.7.1; Fri May 2 16:17:10 2008; ISO-8859-1".
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This may be useful for instance for external tools that provide EPG data, so that
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they can correctly encode the strings.
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- The SVDRP command PUTE now supports reading the EPG data from a given file.
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- After a CLRE command, no further EPG processing is now done for 10 seconds,
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so that data sent with subsequent PUTE commands doesn't interfere with data
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from the broadcasters.
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- If svdrphosts.conf contains only the address of the local host, the SVDRP port
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is opened only for the local host.
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- The default SVDRP port is now 6419 (registered with ICANN/IANA).
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Use '-p 2001' to switch back to the old port if necessary.
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- The SVDRP command HITK now accepts multiple keys (up to 31).
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- The SVDRP command LSTC now also accepts channel IDs.
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- The new SVDRP command UPDR can be used to trigger an update of the list of
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recordings.
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- The SVDRP command DELR now won't delete a recording that is currently being edited.
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- The SVDRP command LSTR now knows the additional parameter "path", which can be
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given to get the actual file name of a recording's directory.
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- The SVDRP command NEWT no longer checks whether a timer with the given data already
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exists.
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Audio:
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- Implemented handling the standard component descriptor for AC3 (stream=4).
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The previously used "Premiere pseudo standard" (stream=2, type=5) still works, but
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has apparently been wrongfully used by broadcasters from the beginning.
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- Improved fast-forward/-rewind for audio recordings. The actual data is now sent
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to the output device, so that it can be replayed and thus cause the proper delay.
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For pure audio recordings the audio is no longer muted in fast-forward/-rewind
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mode, so that some orientation regarding the position within the recording is
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possible.
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- The option "Setup/DVB/Use Dolby Digital" now only controls whether Dolby Digital
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tracks appear in the "Audio" menu. Dolby Digital is always recorded.
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This obsoletes the DOLBYINREC patch.
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Internationalization:
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- Added Lithuanian language texts.
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- Added Slovakian language texts.
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- Added Macedonian language texts.
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- Added support for languages that are written right-to-left.
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See INSTALL for information on how to turn this on.
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- Added Arabian language texts.
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- Added Serbian language texts.
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Misc:
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- Errors in config files no longer keep VDR from starting.
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- The new command line option -i can be used to set an "instance id", which will
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be used to distinguish recordings of the same broadcast made by different instances
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of VDR.
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- Implemented handling the "Parental Rating Descriptor".
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The 'classic', 'sttng' and 'curses' skins display the parental
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rating (if given) in their event displays. The epg.data file stores
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the parental rating using the tag character 'R'.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: if VDR doesn't display a parental rating, this does not
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necessarily mean that the given programme is suitable for all audiences!
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- Renamed 'runvdr' to 'runvdr.template' and no longer copying it to the BINDIR
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in 'make install'.
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- The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Channels wrap" controls whether the current
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channel wraps around the beginning or end of the channel list when zapping.
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- The files "commands.conf" and "reccmd.conf" can now contain nested lists of
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commands. See vdr.5 for information about the new file format.
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This obsoletes the CMDSUBMENU patch.
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- The new setup option "OSD/Number keys for characters" can be used to control whether
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the number keys can be used to enter characters in a text input field.
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- While replaying, the editing marks are now updated every 10 seconds.
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- Added generating a pkg-config file to the Makefile.
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- Removed the '.pl' suffix from all scripts.
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- The new setup option "DVB/Standard compliance" can be used to switch between different
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variations of the DVB standard. Currently there is "DVB" (for the original DVB
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|
standard) and "ANSI/SCTE", which is used to properly handle certain private stream
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|
types.
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- By default VDR is now built according to the FHS ("File system Hierarchy Standard"),
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and a plain "make" in the VDR source directory just builds everything, but doesn't
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copy it to ./PLUGINS/lib and ./locale any more. You can use a Make.config file
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(copied from Make.config.template) and set the parameter LCLBLD=1 to have everything
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built and installed under the VDR source tree (as was the default in previous
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|
versions). If you already have your own Make.config file, you may want to copy the
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|
new Make.config.template and adapt it to your needs. If you don't want VDR's data
|
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files to be spread around your system according to the FHS, you can set the
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|
parameter ONEDIR=1 (using Make.config) to have all files in one /video directory as
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|
before.
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- The script given to VDR with the '-r' option is now also called whenever a
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recording is deleted.
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|
- Synchronizing system time to the transponder time is now done using adjtime() in order
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|
to avoid discontinuities. If the time difference is more than 10 seconds, stime() is
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|
still used to do the initial sync.
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- Implemented scaling of SPU bitmaps.
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- WARNING: Using multiple disks to form one large video directory is deprecated and
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will be removed from VDR in a future version! Either use one of today's large
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terabyte disks (preferably with a backup disk in a RAID-1 array), or use something
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like "mhddfs".
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