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- Introduced the new function cPlugin::Initialize(), in order to be able to separate the startup of a plugin into an "early" (Initialize()) and "late" (Start()) phase (suggested by Andreas Schultz). Plugin authors should please read the section about "Getting started" in PLUGINS.html and adapt their code if applicable. - Implemented the CableDeliverySystemDescriptor and TerrestrialDeliverySystemDescriptor in libdtv (thanks to Sven Grothklags and Andreas Schultz). - Fixed keeping live video active in case the primary device doesn't have an MPEG decoder (thanks to Wolfgang Goeller for reporting this one). - Implemented cDevice::ActualDevice(), which returns the actual receiving device in case of 'Transfer Mode', or the primary device otherwise. This may be useful for plugins that want to attach a cReceiver to the device where the current live video is actually coming from. - Added VDRVERSNUM to config.h, which can be used by the preprocessor to check the actual VDR version (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt). - Removed the WaitForPut/WaitForGet stuff from cRingBuffer, since it appears to no longer be necessary due to the implementation of cNonBlockingFileReader in dvbplayer.c. Also, the long timeout in WaitForPut caused problems with cReceivers that use a ring buffer and didn't immediately return from their Receive() function if the buffer runs full (thanks to Sascha Volkenandt for reporting this one). - Fixed handling EPG data where the "extended event descriptor" comes before the "short event" or a "time shifted event" (thanks to Jonan Santiago). - Disabled the "Received stuffing section in EIT" log message. - Updated 'channels.conf.terr' for Berlin (thanks to Juri Haberland). - Avoiding short display of the "Main" menu when pressing the "Recordings" button or the "Back" button during replay. - Further increased the timeout until an index file is considerd no longer to be written. - Implemented separate PausePriority and PauseLifetime parameters for the recordings created when pausing live video (suggested by Alfred Zastrow). - Changed C++ style comments in libdtv into C style to avoid warnings in gcc 3.x (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: Klaus Schmidinger <kls@cadsoft.de> Project's homepage: www.cadsoft.de/vdr Latest version available at: www.cadsoft.de/vdr See the file COPYING for license information. Description: The 'sky' plugin implements a new device for VDR, which is based on the MPEG2 encoder card described at linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml. It allows you to connect the analog a/v output of your Sky Digibox to VDR, so that you can enjoy the full recording flexibility of VDR with your Sky subscription. Note that this is NOT something that does anything illegal, like decrypting the Sky programme without a subscription. You will need a Sky Digibox and a valid subscription in order to use this plugin. The 'kfir' module must be loaded with the option 'streamtype=4' to make it produce a Transport Stream. The Digibox is remotely controlled through VDR via LIRC (see lirc.org). The file lircd.conf.sky contains the remote control codes necessary to control the Digibox. In order to access the Sky channels VDR needs to know the channel number under which each channel is stored in the Sky Digibox. These numbers are used as 'frequency' parameters in the channels.conf definitions of the Sky channels (see the file 'channels.conf.sky'). Since these numbers are always less than 1000, they can be easily distinguished from normal satellite transponder frequencies. The VPID is 160 and the APID is 80 for all Sky channels. These are just fake PIDs, since the Kfir card always uses these fixed PIDs. The 'Ca' parameter of the Sky channels is set to 301, which is defined as "Videoguard, Sky Digital" in VDR's 'ca.conf' file. Again, please note that VDR doesn't do any decrypting here, this is just to mark these channels as "conditionally accessible" and have a way of setting the CICAM value for the Kfir device in VDR's Setup menu. The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.ananova.com. The Perl script getskyepg.pl extracts the EPG data from these pages and sends it to VDR via an SVDRP connection. The channel numbers Sky uses to generate the EPG pages are stored as the 'sid' parameter in the channels.conf definitions of the Sky channels. You can keep your EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl into your /etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options. The getskyepg.pl script requires the programs /usr/bin/wget and /usr/bin/logger to be installed on your system.