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- The new "Setup" menu allows the user to configure several parameters to his/her
personal taste (see MANUAL for details).
- Workaround for a driver timing problem in cDvbApi::Cmd(), which sometimes caused
the OSD to no longer be displayed (thanks to Niels de Carpentier).
- Added the '-m486' option to the compiler call.
- If a channel name contains a colon (':') it is now replaced with a '|' in
channels.conf.
- Not everybody appears to like the "page scrolling" mechanism introduced by
Heino Goldenstein in version 0.61, so this is now configurable via the "Setup"
menu.
- The new 'dvbrc2vdr' tool (thanks to Plamen Ganev!) can be used to convert
'dvbrc' channel files into 'vdr' format.
- Channels can now be "grouped" (thanks to Plamen Ganev!). See MANUAL for details.
There is currently no mechanism to define and maintain "Channel groups" via
the menu, so you'll have to insert "Channel group" control lines into your
'channels.conf' file manually (for example with a text editor).
- Started a new file named FORMATS with a description of the various file
formats used by VDR.
- The "Primary DVB interface" can now be chosen via the "Setup" menu.
- Display of the "current/next" information when switching channels can now
be disabled via the "Setup" menu.
- The "current/next" display now only shows those lines that actually contain
information.
- When directly selecting a channel by entering the channel number, the digits
entered so far together with the name of that channel are displayed on the
OSD (suggested by Martin Hammerschmid).
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Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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* Remote Control Keys
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The following remote control keys are used to control the VDR
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operation. To keep the number of different keys as small as
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possible, several keys have different meanings in the various
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modes:
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Key Normal Main Channels Timer Edit/New Recordings Replay
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Up Ch up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Play
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Down Ch down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Pause
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Left Prev group - - Disable Decrement - Search back
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Right Next group - - Enable Increment - Search forward
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Ok Ch display Select Switch Edit Accept Play Progress disp.
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Menu Menu on Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu on
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Back - Menu off Main menu Main menu Discard Main menu -
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Red - Record Edit Edit - Play -
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Green - - New New - - Skip -60s
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Yellow - - Delete Delete - Delete Skip +60s
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Blue - - Mark Mark - - Stop
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0..9 Ch select - - - Numeric inp. - -
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* Navigating through the On Screen Menus
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The "Main" menu can be called up with the "Menu" key of your remote
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control unit. The "Up" and "Down" keys are used to select a specific
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item. The "Left" and "Right" keys can be used to change options, and
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the numeric keys allow direct input of numeric data. The "Ok" key
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confirms any changes (or switches to a channel in the "Channels" menu).
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The "Back" key goes back one level in the menu structure, discarding
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any changes that might have been made in the current menu.
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In the "Timers" menu, the current timer can be enabled or disabled with
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the "Right" or "Left" key, respectively (enabled timers are marked with ">").
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"Ok" here opens the "Edit timer" menu.
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Textual options, like channel names or recording file names, can be edited
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by pressing the "Right" button (which puts brackets around the current
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character as in "[R]TL"), selecting the desired character position with
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"Left" and "Right", and changing the character with the "Up" and "Down"
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keys. "Ok" then confirms the changes. The special character '^' can be used
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to "cut off" a string at this position. When this character is visible in the
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brackets (as in abc[^]), the next press to the "Left" or "Ok" button will
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actually cut off the string. Using "Up" and/or "Down" brings back the
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original rest of the string (unless you have pressed "Left" or "Ok").
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The "Red", "Green", "Yellow" and "Blue" buttons have special meanings
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in various menus and are listed at the bottom of the on-screen-display.
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At any point in the menu system, pressing the "Menu" key again will
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immediately leave the menu system (discarding any pending changes).
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* Selecting a Channel
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There are three ways to select a channel:
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1. With no On Screen Menu displayed press the "Up" or "Down" key to switch
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to the next higher or lower channel.
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2. Press the "Menu" button to bring up the On Screen Menu, select "Channels"
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and browse through the list with the "Up" and "Down" key; to switch to the
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selected channel press "Ok".
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2. Directly type in the channel number with the numeric keys ('0'..'9');
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if no key is pressed for about half a second, the digits collected so
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far will define the channel number.
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After switching to a different channel the channel number and name, as well
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as the current time are displayed at the top of the screen. This line
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automatically goes away after about two seconds, or if any key is pressed.
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To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press
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the "Ok" button.
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* Switching through channel groups
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If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
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through these groups by pressing the "Left" and "Right" key while no
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menu is being displayed. The channel display will show the name of the
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group, and if you press the "Ok" button while the group name is being
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displayed, you will switch to the first channel of that group.
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Channel groups can be whatever you decide them to be. You can either
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group your channels by "Bouquet", by language, genre or whatever your
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preferences may be.
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* Instant Recording
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You can start recording the current channel by pressing the "Red" button
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in the Main menu. This will create a timer event named "@channelname" that
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starts at the current time and records for two hours.
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If you want to modify the recording time you need to edit the timer.
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Stop instant recording by pressing the "Menu" button and selecting
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"Stop Recording", or by disabling the timer.
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* Replaying a Recording
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All recordings are listed in the "Recordings" menu. Browse through the
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list with the "Up" and "Down" button and press "Ok" (or the "Red" button)
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to start playback.
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Playback can be stopped via the Main menu by selecting "Stop replaying",
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or by pressing the "Blue" button outside the menu.
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* Replay Control
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The following keys have the listed meaning in Replay mode:
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- Up Resumes normal replay from any "pause", "forward" or "backward"
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mode.
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- Down Halts playback at the current position. Press again to continue
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playback.
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- Blue Stops playback and stores the current position, so that
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playback can be resumed later at that point.
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- Left
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Right Runs playback forward or backward at a higher speed; press
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again to resume normal speed. If in Pause mode, runs forward or
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backward at a slower speed; press again to return to pause mode.
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- Green
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Yellow Skips about 60 seconds back or forward.
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- Ok Brings up the replay progress display, which shows the date,
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time and title of the recording, a progress bar and the
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current and total time of the recording.
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Press "Ok" again to turn off the progress display.
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* Programming the Timer
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Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings.
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The parameters in the "Edit Timer" menu have the following meanings:
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Active: Defines whether the timer will be processed (set it to 'no' to
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temporarily desable a timer).
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Channel: The channel to be recorded (as defined in the "Channels" list).
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Any changes made in the "Channels" list (like renaming or
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reordering channels) will be automatically reflected in the
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timers settings.
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Day: The day on which this timer shall start. This can be either a
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"day of month" (1..31), which allows programming a "single shot"
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timer that hits once and is deleted after it ends. Single shot
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timers can be programmed up to one month into the future.
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Another option here are "repeating timers" which are defined
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by listing the days of the week on which they shall record.
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For example, a timer that shall record every monday and wednesday
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would have a Day setting of "M-W----".
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Start: The start time of the timer in hh:mm as 24 hour ("military") time.
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Stop: The stop time of the timer.
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Priority: The Priority (0..99) is used to decide which timer shall be
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started in case there are two or more timers with the exact same
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start time. The first timer in the list with the highest Priority
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will be used. This value is also stored with the recording and is
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later used to decide which recording to remove from disk in order
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to free space for a new recording. If the disk is full and a new
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recording needs more space, an existing recording with the lowest
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Priority (and which has exceeded its guaranteed Lifetime) will be
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removed.
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Lifetime: The number of days (0..99) a recording made through this timer is
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guaranteed to remain on disk before it is automatically removed
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to free up space for a new recording. Note that setting this
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parameter to very high values for all recordings may soon fill up
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the entire disk and cause new recordings to fail due to low disk
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space.
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File: The name under which a recording created through this timer will
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be stored on disk (the actual name will also contain the date and
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time, so it is possible to have a "repeating timer" store all its
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recordings under the same name; they will be distinguishable by
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their date and time).
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If this field is left blank, the channel name will be used to form
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the name of the recording.
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* Parameters in the "Setup" menu
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Select "Setup" from the main menu to enter the setup menu. From there you can
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modify the following system parameters (note that "boolean" values will be
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displayed as "no" and "yes" in the "Setup" menu, while in the setup file they
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are stored as '0' and '1', respectively):
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PrimaryDVB = 1 Defines the primary DVB interface (i.e. the one that
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will display the menus and will react on input through
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the remote control). Valid values range from '1' to the
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number of installed DVB cards. If more than one DVB card
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is installed and a recording is to be started, the
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program will try to use a free DVB card that is different
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from the primary DVB interface, so that the viewer will
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be disturbed as little as possible.
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ShowInfoOnChSwitch = 1 Turns the display of the current/next information on
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or off when switching the channel. The information is
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always displayed when pressing the "Ok" button in
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normal viewing mode.
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MenuScrollPage = 1 0 = when pressing the "Down" ("Up") key while the cursor
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is on the last (first) line of a list page, the
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list is advanced by a full page and the cursor will
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be at the top (bottom) of that page
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1 = dto., but the cursor remains at the bottom (top) of
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the page (this mode allows for faster scrolling
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through long lists).
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