vdr/FORMATS
Klaus Schmidinger 3fe3c15d5d Version 0.70
- VDR now requires driver version 0.8.1 or higher.
- Recordings are now saved in PES mode. Note that you now need to install the
  driver *WITHOUT* 'outstream=0'! This is the default when you 'make insmod' in
  the DVB/driver directory.
  Old recordings (in AV_PES mode) can still be replayed (as long as the driver
  still supports replaying AV_PES files). The only limitation with this is that
  in fast forward/back mode the picture may be slightly distorted and there may
  be sound fragments.
- The EPG data is now dumped into the file /video/epg.data every ten minutes.
  Use the Perl script 'epg2html.pl' to convert the raw EPG data into a simple
  HTML programme listing.
- Fixed handling of channel switching with the "Blue" button in the "What's on
  now/next?" menus.
- Fixed saving the MarginStop setup parameter.
- Fixed missing initialization in cConfig.
- Implemented "On Disk Editing".
- There is no more default 'timers.conf' file.
- Added Italian language texts (thanks to Alberto Carraro).
- Fixed starting a replay session when the program is currently in "transfer
  mode".
- Fixed setting/modifying timers via SVDRP with empty summary fields.
- Fixed a problem with recordings that have a single quote character in their
  name (this is now mapped to 0x01).
- Changed the value for Diseqc to '0' in the default 'channels.conf'.
- Fixed displaying channels and recording status in the RCU's LED display when
  a recording is interrupted due to higher priority.
- Implemented safe writing of config files (first writes into a temporary file
  and then renames it).
- In case the video data stream is broken the log message will come only every
  5 seconds.
- The current channel is now saved in the 'setup.conf' file when VDR is cancelled,
  and will be restored next time it is started (thanks to Deti Fliegl).
- The EIT scanning thread is now locked when switching channels to avoid problems.
- Encrypted channels can now be selected even without knowing the PNR (however, it
  is still necessary for the EPG info).
2001-01-18 18:00:00 +01:00

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Video Disk Recorder File Formats
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* channels.conf
This file contains the channel setup.
It consists of two types of lines: "group delimiters" and "channel
definitions".
A "group delimiter" is a line starting with a ':' as the very first
character, followed by arbitrary text.
Example: ":First group"
A "channel definition" is a line with channel data, where the fields
are separated by ':' characters:
Example: "RTL:12188:h:1:27500:163:104:0:12003"
The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left
to right):
- Name: the channel's name (if the name originally contains a ':' character
it has to be replaced by '|')
- Frequency in MHz (as an integer)
- Polarization (one of 'h', 'H', 'v', 'V')
- Diseqc number
- Symbol rate
- Video PID
- Audio PID
- Conditional Access (0 = Free To Air, 1 = can be decrypted by the first
DVB card, 2 = can be decrypted by the second DVB card)
- Program Number
* timers.conf
This file contains the timer setup.
The fields in a timer definition have the following meaning (from left
to right):
- Timer active (0 = inaactive, 1 = active)
- Program number of the channel to record
- Day of recording, either one or more of
M------ = Monday
-T----- = Tuesday
--W---- = Wednesday
---T--- = Thrusday
----F-- = Friday
-----S- = Saturday
------S = Sunday
(any combination is possible, for example MTWTF--, and the days may be
indicated by any characters except '-', so for example ABC---- would set
a timer that records on monday, tuesday and wednesday) or the "day of month"
(1..31)
- Start time (first two digits for the hour, second two digits for the minutes)
- End time (first two digits for the hour, second two digits for the minutes)
- Priority (from 00 to 99, 00 = lowest prioity, 99 = highest priority)
- Guaranteed lifetime of recording (in days)
- Name of timer (will be used to name the recording)
- Summary
* setup.conf
This file contains the basic configuration options for VDR.
Each line contains one option in the format "Name = Value".
See the MANUAL file for a description of the available options.
* commands.conf
This file contains the definitions of commands that can be executed from
the "Main" menus "Commands" option.
Each line contains one command definition in the following format:
title : command
where 'title' is the string the will be displayed in the "Commands" menu,
and 'command' is the actual command string that will be executed when this
option is selected. The delimiting ':' may be surrounded by any number of
white space characters.
In order to avoid error messages to stderr, every command should have
stderr redirected to stdout. Everything the command prints to stdout will
be displayed in a result window, with 'title' as its title.
Examples:
Check for new mail: /usr/local/bin/checkmail 2>&1
CPU status : /usr/loval/bin/cpustatus 2>&1
Disk space : df -h | grep '/video' | awk '{ print 100 - $5 "% free"; }'
* marks.vdr
This file (if present in a recording directory) contains the editing marks
defined for this recording.
Each line contains the definition of one mark in the following format:
hh:mm:ss.ff comment
where 'hh:mm:ss.ff' is a frame position within the recording, given as "hours,
minutes, seconds and (optional) frame number". 'comment' can be any string
and may be used to describe this mark. If present, 'comment' must be separated
from the frame position by at least one blank.
The lines in this file need not necessarily appear in the correct temporal
sequence, they will be automatically sorted by time index.
CURRENT RESTRICTIONS:
- the 'comment' is currently not used by VDR
- marks must have a frame number, and that frame MUST be an I-frame (this
means that only marks generated by VDR itself can be used, since they
will always be guaranteed to mark I-frames).