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- Adapted VDR to the NEWSTRUCT driver. To use the new driver, compile VDR with 'make NEWSTRUCT=1' (thanks to Holger Wächtler for some valuable advice). By default it currently still uses the old driver. - Added some missing #includes (thanks to Martin Hammerschmid). - Changed the log error message "can't record MPEG1!" to "error in data stream!", since the mentioning of MPEG1 has irritated many people. - Consistently using malloc/free and new/delete (thanks to Andreas Schultz). - Temporarily made cDevice::ProvidesCa() virtual (Andreas Schultz needs this in his DXR3 plugin). - cDevice no longer exposes a file handle to cPlayer. A derived cPlayer class can now call DevicePoll() to see whether the replay device is ready for further data. A derived cDevice class must implement Poll() and shall check if any of its file handles is ready for data. - Implemented several replay modes to allow players that play only audio (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt). - Improved cCondVar::Wait() and implemented cCondVar::TimedWait() (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt). - VDR no longer gives up if there is no DVB device. It continues to work if there is at least one device, either a DVB device found by the core VDR code itself, or a device implemented by a plugin.
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Video Disk Recorder Revision History
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2000-02-19: Version 0.01
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- Initial revision.
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2000-03-11: Version 0.02
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- Fixed compilation with only DEBUG_REMOTE=1.
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- Menus now use colors.
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- Support for "Red", "Green", "Yellow", "Blue" buttons.
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- Channels and Timers can now be added, deleted and moved.
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- Basic record/play file handling support (no actual record/playback yet).
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2000-04-15: Version 0.03
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- Actual record/replay now works.
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- Dropped the idea of different "recording qualities" (a 36GB harddisk is
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able to store some 18 hours in full quality, so we don't really need that).
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- Termination signals are now caught and the program cleans up before exiting.
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- Support for CICAM.
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2000-04-24: Version 0.04
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- Changed name from 'osm' to 'vdr' to avoid mixups with the 'oms' program that
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appears to be in use with DVD replay.
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- Implemented a channel display in the top menu line.
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- Implemented replay progress display (press "Ok" when replaying to bring it up).
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- Implemented direct channel selecting by pressing the numeric keys.
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- Added several 'const' keywords to please stricter compilers.
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- The repeat function for the remote control no longer adapts dynamically
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to the timing of the RCU (this sometimes caused the repeat function to
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kick in too early).
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- Channel selection is now blocked when recording or replaying.
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- Improved process handling.
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2000-05-27: Version 0.05
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- Support for more than one DVB card.
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- Simultaneous record and replay (with two DVB cards).
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- Instant recordings no longer get the name "instant". They now get the name
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of the channel, with a prepended '@' character.
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- Timers that are not given an explicit Name now use the channel name with
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a prepended '@' character.
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- If an instant recording is currently active, the "Main" menu now contains
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an option to stop that recording.
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- Timers are now only processed when the Menu is not active. So after editing
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a timer the effect will take place only after the menu has been closed.
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In order to avoid missing a timer event by inadvertently leaving the menu
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open, the menu will be closed automatically after about two minutes of
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inactivity.
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- If a recording is currently being replayed, the "Main" menu now contains an
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option to stop replaying.
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- Displaying the recording DVB interface status in the decimal points of the
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RCU display.
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- Reduced the number of remote control keys. Modified the key assignments for
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the PC keyboard to better resemble the "up-down-left-right-ok" layout on
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menu controlling remote control units.
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2000-07-25: Version 0.6
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- Added support for LIRC remote control (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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There are now three different remote control modes: KBD (PC-Keyboard), RCU
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and LIRC. See the INSTALL file for information on how to enable either of
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these modes. The default mode is now KBD, not RCU as before (to make it
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work immediately even if there is no actual remote control).
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- Fixed small bug in dvbapi.c that was causing some channels (many on hotbird)
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not to be correctly tuned (thanks to Plamen Ganev!).
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- Now clearing the replay buffer in search forward/back, which results in
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faster reaction.
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- The 'Recordings' menu is now listed alphabetically (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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- The new 'epg2timers' tool (thanks to Carsten Koch!) can be used to convert
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an EPG "merkliste" page (http://www.tvtv.de) to vdr timer entries.
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- The new 'xtvrc2vdr' tool (thanks to Plamen Ganev!) can be used to convert
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'xtvrc' channel files into 'vdr' format.
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- When more than one timer matches at the same time, the first one in the list
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with the highest 'Priority' is selected.
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- The MANUAL section on "Programming the Timer" has been filled in.
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- The year in the "Recordings" menu as well as in the progress display during
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replay has been reduced to 2 digits to allow more space for the recording's
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title. In the internal file structure the year is still stored with 4 digits,
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so there will be no problem at the next turn of the century ;-)
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- Channel names and timer filenames can now contain blanks. To avoid problems
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with file names that contain blanks, all blanks in recording file names are
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converted to underscores.
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- The polarization can now be given in uppercase or lowercase characters in
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'channels.conf'.
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- Fixed buffer initialization to work with DVB driver version 0.6.
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- Implemented the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP) to control
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the VDR over a network connection.
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- Implemented command line option handling.
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- The program can now run in full background mode by using the --daemon option.
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- Added a "summary" field to the timers (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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This field can contain a descriptive text of the programme and will be
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displayed when the "Blue" key is pressed on a recording that was created by
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this timer. If the text contains the special character '|', a newline will
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be inserted at that place. When pressing "Ok" on a timer that contains a
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summary field, the summary will be displayed. To edit such a timer the "Red"
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key must be pressed. Timers without a summary still go into Edit mode when
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pressing "Ok". The summary field can only be filled in directly by editing
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the 'timers.conf' file with a text editor, or by defining/modifying the timer
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via the SVDRP interface.
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2000-08-06: Version 0.61
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- When scrolling through a list it now moves a full page up or down when the
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cursor reaches the top or bottom of the menu (thanks to Heino Goldenstein!).
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- Added missing '#include <sys/stat.h>' to recording.c.
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- The video directory can now be defined with the command line option -v.
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- There can now be more than one video directory (in case you have several
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disks).
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- Fixed learning key codes for PC keyboard.
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- New command line option '-l' to set the log level.
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- Times in timers.conf are now always printed with 4 digits (leading '0').
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- Slow forward/back mode (thanks to Guido Fiala!).
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- The "Up" key in replay mode no longer restarts replay at the very beginning,
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but rather resumes normal replay mode after a "pause", "forward" or "backward"
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operation. Use the "Skip -60s" function repeatedly to go back to the beginning
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of the recording.
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- Improved reaction on user input in fast/slow forward/back modes.
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- No more upper limit for the value of 'Pnr'.
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- Checking if the video card is really a DVB card.
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- New SVDRP command UPDT to update an existing timer (or add a new one if it
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doesn't yet exist).
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- New version of the 'epg2timers' tool (with a modified channel list).
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- Bugfix in closing window in DEBUG_OSD mode.
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2000-09-03: Version 0.62
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- The Makefile now defines DVBDIR to easily point to where the DVB driver
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source is located.
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- When switching channels the current/next information is now displayed if
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available (thanks to Robert Schneider). Since there is now more information
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to read when switching channels, the timeout for displaying it has been
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increased from 2 to 5 seconds (remember that this info can always be recalled
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by pressing the "Ok" button).
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For this feature to work it is necessary that the 'Pnr' parameter in the
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channel setup ('channels.conf') is set to the proper value. This has been
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done for some of the channels in the default 'channels.conf'. Some other
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parameters in the default 'channels.conf' have also been updated, so please
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make sure your timers still use the correct channels!
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2000-09-10: Version 0.63
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- The new "Setup" menu allows the user to configure several parameters to his/her
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personal taste (see MANUAL for details).
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- Workaround for a driver timing problem in cDvbApi::Cmd(), which sometimes caused
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the OSD to no longer be displayed (thanks to Niels de Carpentier).
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- Added the '-m486' option to the compiler call.
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- If a channel name contains a colon (':') it is now replaced with a '|' in
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'channels.conf'.
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- Not everybody appears to like the "page scrolling" mechanism introduced by
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Heino Goldenstein in version 0.61, so this is now configurable via the "Setup"
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menu.
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- The new 'dvbrc2vdr' tool (thanks to Plamen Ganev!) can be used to convert
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'dvbrc' channel files into 'vdr' format.
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- Channels can now be "grouped" (thanks to Plamen Ganev!). See MANUAL for details.
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There is currently no mechanism to define and maintain "Channel groups" via
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the menu, so you'll have to insert "Channel group" control lines into your
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'channels.conf' file manually (for example with a text editor).
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- Started a new file named FORMATS with a description of the various file
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formats used by VDR.
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- The "Primary DVB interface" can now be chosen via the "Setup" menu.
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- Display of the "current/next" information when switching channels can now
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be disabled via the "Setup" menu.
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- The "current/next" display now only shows those lines that actually contain
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information.
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- When directly selecting a channel by entering the channel number, the digits
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entered so far together with the name of that channel are displayed on the
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OSD (suggested by Martin Hammerschmid).
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2000-09-20: Version 0.64
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- NOTE: If you are using DVB driver version 0.7 you need to load the dvb.o
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module with option outstream=0, so your insmod statement should read
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'insmod dvb.o outstream=0'. This is currently necessary because 'vdr'
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still works with AV_PES data.
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- Video files now have the 'group read' bit set.
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- Fixed handling errors in 'readstring()'.
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- Handling SIGPIPE and re-establishing handler after intercepting a signal.
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- The configuration files are now by default read from the video directory.
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This can be changed by using the new '-c' option. Make sure you copy your
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current '*.conf' files to your video directory ('/video' by default), or
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use "-c ." to get the old behaviour of loading the configuration files
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from the current directory.
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- Waiting for input is now handled by a common function, which improves
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response time on user actions. As a consequence the EIT data may sometimes
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not be displayed, but this will change later when cEIT runs as a separate
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thread.
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- The new SVDRP command 'HITK' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to 'hit'
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a remote control key. Establish an SVDRP connection and enter HITK without
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a parameter for a list of all valid key names.
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- The new SVDRP command 'GRAB' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to grab
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the current frame and save it to a file.
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- The new SVDRP commands 'OVL*' can be used to control video overlays (thanks
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to Guido Fiala!). This is mainly for use in the 'kvdr' tool (see the 'kvdr'
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page at http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala).
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- If the name of the video directory used with the '-v' option had trailing
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slashes, the recording file names have been damaged. Trailing slashes are
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now silently removed.
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- Fixed a buffer overflow in EIT parsing.
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- Added a security warning regarding SVDRP to the INSTALL file.
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- Fixed 'confirm' dialog.
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- The daemon mode (option '-d') now no longer works with REMOTE=KBD (there
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is no stdin in daemon mode, so KBD makes no sense - plus it sometimes
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crashed).
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2000-10-03: Version 0.65
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- Modified LIRC interface to better handle repeat function.
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- Faster OSD by first writing into a bitmap and then sending the entire bitmap
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to the DVB driver at once (requires the patch 'dvb.c.071.diff' to be applied
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against the version 0.71 DVB driver file 'dvb.c').
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- When switching channels the channel is now immediately displayed, and the
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current/next information is shown as soon as it becomes available.
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- No longer displaying the year in the 'Recordings' menu to save space for the
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title.
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- The 'Recordings' menu now displays a '*' to indicate new recordings.
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- Added the description of the timers.conf file to the FORMATS file (thanks to
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Bastian Guse).
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- Displaying as much as possible of the current/next info (dropping characters
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that would display only partially).
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- In normal viewing mode the '0' key now toggles between the current and the
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previous channel.
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2000-10-08: Version 0.66
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- Remote control data is now received in a separate thread, which makes things
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a lot smoother.
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- Repeat and release of remote control keys is now explicitly distinguished.
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- In replay mode the search forward/back and skip functions now have two modes:
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Pressing the key shortly and releasing it starts the function, and pressing it
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again stops it. Pressing and holding down the key starts the function and
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releasing the key stops it.
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- The '@' character that marks an "instant recording" can now be turned off
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in the "Setup" menu (thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer).
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- Pressing the "Back" button while replaying now stops replaying and brings up
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the "Recordings" menu (suggested by Carsten Koch). This can be used to easily
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delete a recording after watching it, or to switch to a different recording.
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- The "Recordings" menu now places the cursor on the last replayed recording, if
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that file still exists.
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- The "Blue" button in the "Main" menu can now be used to "Resume" a previously
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stopped replay session (suggested by Martin Hammerschmid).
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- The low and high LNB frequencies can now be changed in the "Setup" menu.
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2000-11-01: Version 0.67
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- The EIT information is now gathered in a separate thread.
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- The sytem time can now be synchronized to the time broadcast in the DVB data
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stream. This can be enabled in the "Setup" menu by setting "SetSystemTime" to
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1. Note that this works only if VDR is running under a user id that has
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permisson to set the system time.
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- The new item "Schedule" in the "Main" menu opens VDR's EPG (thanks to Robert
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Schneider). See the MANUAL file for a detailed description.
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- The new setup parameters MarginStart and MarginStop define how long (in
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minutes) before the official start time of a broadcast VDR shall begin
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recording, and how long after the official end time it shall stop recording.
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These are used when a recording is programmed from the "Schedules" menu.
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- The delay value in the dvb.c.071.diff patch to the driver has been increased
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to '3', because on some systems the OSD was not displayed correctly. If you
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are running an already patched version 0.71 driver and encounter problems
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with the OSD, please make sure the parameter in the ddelay call is '3', not
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'2'.
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- Fixed initializing the RCU remote control code (didn't work after switching
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on the system).
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- Problematic characters in recording names (which can come from timers that
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are programmed via the "Schedules" menu) are now replaced by suitable
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substitutes.
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2000-11-19: Version 0.68
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- Date and time in the title of an event info page are now always right adjusted.
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- The 'current channel' is now handled device specific (in case there is more
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than one DVB card).
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- The 'SetSystemTime' option in the "Setup" menu is now shown as "yes/no".
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- Implemented "internationalization" (see 'i18n.c' for information on how to
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add new languages). Thanks to Miha Setina for translating the OSD texts to
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the Slovenian language.
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- Fixed learning keys on the PC keyboard (display oscillated).
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- Fixed a timing problem with OSD refresh and SVDRP.
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- Avoiding multiple definitions of the same timer in the "Schedule" menu (this
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could happen when pressing the "Red" button while editing the timer).
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- There can now be a configuration file named 'commands.conf' that defines
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commands that can be executed through the "Main" menu's "Commands" option
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(see FORMATS for details on how to define these commands).
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- Added a 'fixed' font for use with the output of system commands.
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- The 'Priority' parameter of the timers is now also used to interrupt a low
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priority timer recording if a higher priority timer wants to record.
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- A timer recording on a DVB card with a CAM module will now be interrupted
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by a timer that needs to use this specific DVB card to record an encrypted
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channel, if the timer currently occupying this DVB card doesn't need the
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CAM module (and thus can continue recording on a different DVB card).
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- The "Yellow" button in the "What's on now/next?" menus now displays the
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schedule of the current channel from that menu.
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- All DVB cards in a multi-card system now write their EIT information into the
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same data structure.
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- If there is more than one DVB card in the system, the non-primary cards are
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now used to periodically scan through the channels in order to keep the
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EPG info up-to-date. Scanning kicks in after 60 seconds of user inactivity
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(timeout in order to keep user interactions instantaneously) and each channel
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that has the 'pnr' parameter defined in 'channels.conf' is switched to for
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20 seconds. If there is only one DVB card in the system, that card will start
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scanning after 5 hours (configurable through the "Setup" menu) of user inactivity
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and will switch back to the channel it originally displayed at the first sign of
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user activity. Any scanning will only occur if that particular card is not
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currently recording or replaying.
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- Now shifting the 'Subtitle' info into the 'ExtendedDescription' on stations
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that don't send the EIT information correctly (like, e.g., 'VOX').
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- Implemented a 10 seconds latency when removing files.
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- Fixed unwanted reaction on the "Green" and "Yellow" button in the "Event" display.
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- Implemented 'Transfer Mode' to display video data from the DVB card that actually
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can receive a certain channel on the primary interface. This is currently in
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an early state and may still cause some problems, but it appears to work nice
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already.
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2001-01-18: Version 0.70
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- VDR now requires driver version 0.8.1 or higher.
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- Recordings are now saved in PES mode. Note that you now need to install the
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driver *WITHOUT* 'outstream=0'! This is the default when you 'make insmod' in
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the DVB/driver directory.
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Old recordings (in AV_PES mode) can still be replayed (as long as the driver
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still supports replaying AV_PES files). The only limitation with this is that
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in fast forward/back mode the picture may be slightly distorted and there may
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be sound fragments.
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- The EPG data is now dumped into the file /video/epg.data every ten minutes.
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Use the Perl script 'epg2html.pl' to convert the raw EPG data into a simple
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HTML programme listing.
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- Fixed handling of channel switching with the "Blue" button in the "What's on
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now/next?" menus.
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- Fixed saving the MarginStop setup parameter.
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- Fixed missing initialization in cConfig.
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- Implemented "On Disk Editing".
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- There is no more default 'timers.conf' file.
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- Added Italian language texts (thanks to Alberto Carraro).
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- Fixed starting a replay session when the program is currently in 'Transfer
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Mode'.
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- Fixed setting/modifying timers via SVDRP with empty summary fields.
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- Fixed a problem with recordings that have a single quote character in their
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name (this is now mapped to 0x01).
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- Changed the value for Diseqc to '0' in the default 'channels.conf'.
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- Fixed displaying channels and recording status in the RCU's LED display when
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a recording is interrupted due to higher priority.
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- Implemented safe writing of config files (first writes into a temporary file
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and then renames it).
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- In case the video data stream is broken the log message will come only every
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5 seconds.
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- The current channel is now saved in the 'setup.conf' file when VDR is cancelled,
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and will be restored next time it is started (thanks to Deti Fliegl).
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- The EIT scanning thread is now locked when switching channels to avoid problems.
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- Encrypted channels can now be selected even without knowing the PNR (however, it
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is still necessary for the EPG info).
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2001-02-24: Version 0.71
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- Fixed 'Transfer Mode' in cases where a non-primary interface was switched to
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a channel that only the primary interface can receive (which could happen in
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the EPG scanner).
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- The EPG scanner now starts with the first channel (it used to start with the
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second channel).
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- Reacitvated setting the PNR.
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- Adapted the frame scanning to the new muxing of the driver.
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- The new compile time option REMOTE=NONE can be used to compile VDR without
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any remote control support (for applications where it shall be controlled
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exclusively via SVDRP).
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- The new command line option -D can be used to define which DVB interfaces
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a certain instance of VDR shall use.
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- The "Left" and "Right" keys are now used to page up and down in lists (thanks
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to Martin Hammerschmid). Since the "Timers" menu already uses these keys to
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(de)activate timers, this functionality is not available there.
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- The "Main" and "Commands" menu now support "hotkeys", which means that if the
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first non-blank character of a menu item is a digit in the range 1..9, that
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item can be selected by pressing the respective numeric key on the remote
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control.
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- The channel data in 'channels.conf' now contains the teletext PID (thanks to
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Dave Chapman). Existing files will be read normally (and the teletext PID set
|
||
to 0), but once they are written back (due to some channel editing) the file
|
||
will have the new format.
|
||
- The EPG scanner now scans each transponder only once per cycle.
|
||
- Deleted recordings are now automatically removed from disk after a while (not
|
||
only when disk space is being needed for a new recording).
|
||
- Fixed repeat function in LIRC remote control.
|
||
- Changed the MAXDVBAPI macro in dvbapi.c to 4 in order to directly support the
|
||
maximum possible number of DVB cards.
|
||
- The 'Ca' parameter in the default 'channels.conf' has been changed from '2'
|
||
to '3' because the VDR prototype now has 3 DVB cards (and currently the CAM
|
||
module only works if it is inserted into the last DVB card).
|
||
- The "Now", "Next" and "Schedule" menus now remember the current channel and
|
||
restore the list when switching between them.
|
||
- The "Green" button in the "Recordings" menu can now be used to rewind a
|
||
recording and play it from the very beginning.
|
||
- Fixed handling ':' in timer filenames and '\n' in timer summaries (see FORMATS).
|
||
- When removing recordings empty directories are now removed from the video
|
||
directory.
|
||
- Added the "schnitt" tools from Matthias Schniedermeyer.
|
||
- New SVDRP command MESG to display a short message on the OSD.
|
||
- The Perl script 'svdrpsend.pl' can be used to send SVDRP commands to VDR.
|
||
- SVDRP can now immediately reuse the same port if VDR is restarted.
|
||
- SVDRP now has a timeout after which the connection is automatically closed
|
||
(default is 300 seconds, can be changed in "Setup").
|
||
- The compile time switch VFAT can be used to make VDR avoid the ':' character
|
||
in file names (VFAT can't handle them). Do 'make VFAT=1' to enable this.
|
||
- Support for DVB-C (thanks to Hans-Peter Raschke and Peter Hofmann).
|
||
See the INSTALL file for more information about the use of VDR with cable.
|
||
- Fixed an occasional segfault in the EIT processor.
|
||
- A value of '0' for the EPGScanTimeout setup parameter now completely turns off
|
||
scanning for EPG data on both single and multiple card systems.
|
||
- New setup parameter "PrimaryLimit" that allows to prevent timers from using the
|
||
primary DVB interface in multi card systems. Default value is 0, which means
|
||
that every timer may use the primary interface.
|
||
- The 'active' field of a timer will now be explicitly set to '1' if the user
|
||
modifies an active timer (see FORMATS for details).
|
||
- The new command line option -w can be used to activate a watchdog that makes
|
||
VDR exit in case the main program loop does not respond for more than the
|
||
given number of seconds. This is mainly useful in combination with the new
|
||
'runvdr' script that restarts VDR in case is has exited.
|
||
|
||
2001-04-01: Version 0.72
|
||
|
||
- Fixed SVDRP commands LSTC and LSTT to make them return an error message if
|
||
no channels or timers are defined.
|
||
- Enhanced 'channels.conf.cable' (thanks to Hans-Peter Raschke).
|
||
- Fixed switching to another channel via the EPG while a recording is being
|
||
replayed.
|
||
- Fixed a memory leak in the EIT processor that happened when the system time
|
||
was set.
|
||
- Removed some redundant code from the cListBase destructor.
|
||
- Fixed internationalization of some "Main" menu texts.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' after the recent changes of Premiere World (thanks
|
||
to Axel Gruber).
|
||
- Redesigned the ring buffer to make it work with two separate threads for
|
||
input and output (also prepared for using a remultiplexer).
|
||
- Fixed setting system time from transponders.
|
||
- Fixed a segfault in the Schedule menu in case there is no EPG information.
|
||
- The 'runvdr' script now kills any leftover vdr threads before restarting it.
|
||
- Fixed a problem with Daylight Saving Time when displaying the times of
|
||
recordings.
|
||
- Added Dutch language texts (thanks to Arnold Niessen).
|
||
- The new command line option -t can be used to set the controlling terminal
|
||
(thanks to J<>rgen Sauer). This is especially useful when starting VDR through
|
||
an entry in /etc/inittab (see INSTALL).
|
||
- Since the CAM module only works if it is installed in the "highest" DVB card,
|
||
recordings now search for a free DVB card from lowest to highest index (as
|
||
opposed to the previous "highest to lowest" search) in order to not use the
|
||
CAM card for FTA recordings unless necessary. This is only important for
|
||
systems with three or more DVB cards.
|
||
- Added the "statdvb2vdr" tool from Hans-Peter Raschke.
|
||
- Fixed a segfault that sometimes happened when killing VDR.
|
||
- VDR now returns an exit status of '2' in case of an error at startup, instead
|
||
of terminating with 'abort()' (which caused a core dump).
|
||
- SVDRP now also works with clients that don't do line buffering (like the
|
||
Windows 'telnet').
|
||
- Empty lines in config files no longer cause error messages.
|
||
- New SVDRP command LSTE to list the EPG data.
|
||
- The SVDRP HELP command now prints the topics in several columns.
|
||
|
||
2001-06-02: Version 0.80
|
||
|
||
- VDR now requires driver version 0.9.0 or higher.
|
||
- Switched to the "new API" (thanks to Dave Chapman for his great support in
|
||
this task).
|
||
- New setup parameter "LnbSLOF" that defines the switching frequency of the LNB.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the EPG scanner with more than one DVB card.
|
||
- Fixed checking for free disk space, so that it works with NFS mounted drives.
|
||
- Files are now created with mode 644.
|
||
- Fixed checking the exit status in the 'runvdr' script.
|
||
- Activated loading the driver in 'runvdr'. Please read the comments in 'runvdr'
|
||
for details.
|
||
- The new "emergency exit" feature automatically triggers a restart of VDR (if
|
||
used with 'runvdr', otherwise it simply exists) if
|
||
* tuning the channel for a recording fails
|
||
* no useful data is received within the first 1MB of a recording
|
||
* no data is received within a recording for more than 5 seconds
|
||
This should make sure that a recording is successfully restarted after any
|
||
problems.
|
||
- Processing the EIT data is now disabled during replay and 'Transfer Mode' in
|
||
order to avoid video and audio glitches (there appears to be a bandwidth
|
||
problem somewhere in the driver/firmware/hardware).
|
||
- Due to the reduced amount of OSD memory provided by the driver the number of
|
||
lines in the OSD had to be reduced by 2. By rearranging some of the display
|
||
items the amount of visible information remained the same as before, though.
|
||
If your DVB card has even less memory (which would result in only the
|
||
channel switching display and the replay progress display being visible, but
|
||
no "Main" menu), try reducing the constant 'MenuLines' in dvbapi.h (currently
|
||
'13') even further.
|
||
- There are two new setup parameters to define the "Default Priority" and
|
||
"Default Lifetime" when creating a new timer event.
|
||
- The meaning of the "Lifetime" parameter has been modified: a value of '99'
|
||
now means that the recording will live "forever", and a value of '0' means
|
||
that the recording has no guaranteed lifetime and will be deleted whenever
|
||
a new recording with higher priority needs disk space.
|
||
- Updated version of Matthias Schniedermeyer's 'schnitt' tools.
|
||
- New 'master-timer' tool (thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer).
|
||
|
||
2001-06-12: Version 0.81
|
||
|
||
- Fixed handling the case where the driver reports EAGAIN during recording,
|
||
but no data comes within 5 seconds.
|
||
- Fixed EPG scanning on single DVB card systems.
|
||
- There can now be two audio PIDs per channel, which can be toggled via the
|
||
"Green" button in the "Main" menu. The "Edit Channel" menu therefore now
|
||
has two audio PID fields (Apid1 and Apid2). By default, Apid2 is 0, which
|
||
means there is no alternate audio track.
|
||
- Fixed replaying in case the driver reports EAGAIN.
|
||
- Now 'runvdr' checks if the driver is already loaded (thanks to Henning
|
||
Holtschneider).
|
||
- Fixed removing recordings with Lifetime = 99.
|
||
- Improved channel switching.
|
||
|
||
2001-06-16: Version 0.82
|
||
|
||
- Increased timeout until reporting "broken video data stream" when recording.
|
||
- Increased amount of non-useful data received by cRemux before assuming the
|
||
recording will fail.
|
||
- If there are two audio PIDs defined for a channel, both audio tracks will
|
||
now be recorded and can be selectively replayed later. See the FORMATS file
|
||
for details on how these different audio tracks are stored in the recorded
|
||
files. In order for this to work properly you need to use a driver version
|
||
dated 2001-06-16 or later, where the default PES filter buffer size has been
|
||
reduced. This will create packets for the second audio track that are small
|
||
enough to multiplex smoothly with the video data.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the editing mechanism (didn't work with recordings that
|
||
consist of more than one data file).
|
||
- The compile time switch VFAT has been fixed to recognize the ':' character
|
||
in recording names, too.
|
||
- Setting all PIDs to 0x1FFF before switching channel.
|
||
- New setup parameter "VideoFormat" to define the aspect ratio of the tv set
|
||
in use (4:3 or 16:9).
|
||
|
||
2001-06-26: Version 0.83
|
||
|
||
- Avoiding "Device or resource busy" error message when setting PIDs.
|
||
- Added Portugese language texts (thanks to Paulo Lopes).
|
||
- Recording and replaying Dolby Digital (AC3) sound.
|
||
- No longer getting stuck when a channel doesn't sync while switching
|
||
with the 'Up' and 'Down' keys.
|
||
|
||
2001-07-22: Version 0.84
|
||
|
||
- Fixed video packet scanning to make it recognize the whole range of
|
||
allowed video packet ids.
|
||
- Added an additional "emergency exit" in case channel switching doesn't
|
||
work several times in a row (when will the driver finally become stable
|
||
enough to allow rock solid channel switching??).
|
||
- No longer sending a Diseqc command if the Diseqc value for a given channel
|
||
is '0'. Previously this caused problems with some multi-switches (thanks to
|
||
Markus Lang and Ulrich R<>der).
|
||
- When switching channels by entering the channel number via the numeric keys
|
||
on the remote control, the channel number displayed is now followed by the
|
||
'-' character to indicate that additional digits can be entered.
|
||
- Increased the timeout for numeric channel switching from 500ms to 1s.
|
||
- Fixed handling the "Green" button in the "Schedules" menu for channels that
|
||
have a second audio PID.
|
||
- Fixed high system load when displaying a still picture in replay.
|
||
- Fixed a hanging SVDRP connection if the client dies without issuing QUIT.
|
||
- Increased the frame buffer size to 192KB.
|
||
- Removed a superfluous VIDEO_FREEZE call in the replay buffer.
|
||
- Added French language texts (thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto).
|
||
- Modified OSD to use 2bpp windows (4 colors) in order to work with less
|
||
memory, allow a larger OSD window and be faster. The group separators in the
|
||
"Channels" menu had to be given a different color.
|
||
- Moved the channel display to the bottom of the screen.
|
||
- Displaying the frame counter in the replay progress display only when editing
|
||
a mark.
|
||
- Fixed handling characters above 0xEF in SVDRP.
|
||
- Fixed a possible crash in parsing incorrect lines in 'channels.conf'.
|
||
- New channel settings for Premiere World (Dolby Digital PIDs not yet
|
||
available).
|
||
- Increased the buffer for key names received from LIRC (thanks to Andre
|
||
Valentin).
|
||
- Fixed handling a channel group separator at the very beginning of the
|
||
'channels.conf' file.
|
||
|
||
2001-07-29: Version 0.85
|
||
|
||
- Added Norwegian language texts (thanks to J<>rgen Tvedt).
|
||
- Increased the usleep value in cDvbOsd::Cmd() to 5000 in order to work on
|
||
systems with the KURT/utime-patch (thanks to Guido Fiala).
|
||
- Changed the check whether the driver is loaded in runvdr to check for the
|
||
'dvb' module (the last one loaded).
|
||
- Fixed repeat function with LIRC (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Increased the upper limit for the symbol rate to 30000 (thanks to Ulrich
|
||
R<>der).
|
||
- Made the position of the channel display configurable (thanks to Stefan
|
||
Huelswitt).
|
||
- Made the width and height of the OSD configurable (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- DiSEqC support can now be generally enabled/disabled in the Setup menu. This
|
||
may be necessary if your multiswitch gets irritated by the default DiSEqC
|
||
codes '0' (thanks to Markus Lang).
|
||
- Fixed replaying in case there is no index file.
|
||
- Fixed jumping to an editing mark when replay has been paused.
|
||
- Avoiding unnecessary code execution in the replay progress display (thanks
|
||
to Guido Fiala).
|
||
- When entering time values the digits that still have to be entered are now
|
||
shown as '-' (as in "1-:--").
|
||
- When setting an editing mark while the progress display is not active, the
|
||
display will now be turned on for a short while to indicate the successful
|
||
setting of the mark.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' for Premiere World (thanks to Mel Sch<63>chner).
|
||
Check your timers if you use this channels.conf file, since the sequence of
|
||
several PW channels has been changed.
|
||
- Changed the color of "Info" messages to "black on green" and that of the
|
||
confirmation messages (like "Delete...") to "black on yellow".
|
||
- Fixed display with DEBUG_OSD (it still crashes sometimes, esp. when replaying,
|
||
but I can't seem to find what causes this... any ideas anybody?).
|
||
- Avoiding audio/video distortions in 'Transfer Mode' by no longer actually
|
||
tuning the primary interface (which can't receive this channel, anyway).
|
||
Apparently the driver gets irritated when the channel is switched and a
|
||
replay session is started immediately after that.
|
||
- Increased timeout until reporting "video data stream broken" when recording.
|
||
- Explicitly switching back to the previously active channel after ending a
|
||
replay session (to have it shown correctly in case it was in 'Transfer Mode').
|
||
|
||
2001-08-06: Version 0.90
|
||
|
||
- Modified the display of the channel group separators (thanks to Markus Lang
|
||
for this suggestion).
|
||
- Added support for replaying DVDs (thanks to Andreas Schultz). See INSTALL for
|
||
instructions on how to compile VDR with DVD support.
|
||
- Fixed replay progress display in case replay is paused while watching an
|
||
ongoing recording.
|
||
- Ringbuffer uses semaphores to signal empty/full conditions.
|
||
- Fixed calculating the timeout value in cFile::FileReady() (thanks to
|
||
Wolfgang Henselmann-Weiss).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-12: Version 0.91
|
||
|
||
- Fixed displaying colored button texts that are too long.
|
||
- Suppressing replay progress display when replaying a DVD.
|
||
- Updated channels.conf.cable (thanks to Uwe Scheffler).
|
||
- Updated French OSD texts (thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto).
|
||
- Improved AC3 decoding when replaying DVDs (thanks to Matjaz Thaler).
|
||
- Fixed handling DVB card indexes when using only one card in a multi-card
|
||
system.
|
||
- Changed the 'Eject DVD' button text to a simple 'Eject' (the German text
|
||
was too long...).
|
||
- Made the font file generation more stable (thanks to Artur Skawina).
|
||
- Changed the default value for the "DiSEqC" setup parameter to "off".
|
||
- The new command line option '-E' can be used to define where the EPG data
|
||
shall be written to. This is especially useful if VDR runs in a system
|
||
that turns off the video disk when it is not used, and therefore needs
|
||
to write the EPG file to a ramdisk (or turn off writing it alltogether).
|
||
See 'vdr --help' for details.
|
||
- Making sure the disk is up and running before starting recording (this
|
||
is important for systems that turn off the video disk when it is not used).
|
||
- Added the "Jump" function in replay mode (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
See the description of the "Red" key in MANUAL under "Replay Control" for
|
||
details.
|
||
- Fixed displaying editing marks when toggling a mark in "pause" mode.
|
||
- If there is no free DVB device to record, the log message will now be given
|
||
only once.
|
||
- Made I/O more robust by handling EINTR (thanks to Werner Fink).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-18: Version 0.92
|
||
|
||
- The "channel not sync'ed" log message now also lists the card number.
|
||
- Now using the EIT services from 'libdtv' (thanks to Rolf Hakenes), which
|
||
provides EPG information for NVOD ("Near Video On Demand") channels.
|
||
- Doing some bug fixing on the EPG data (some tv stations apparently have
|
||
their own idea on how to fill in the data...). The level up to which EPG
|
||
bugs are fixed can be controlled with the EPGBugfixLevel parameter in the
|
||
"Setup" menu (see MANUAL for details, and cEventInfo::FixEpgBugs() in eit.c
|
||
for the actual implementation).
|
||
- Fixed broken recordings after a driver buffer overflow.
|
||
- Fixed the chirping sound after Pause/Play of a DVD (thanks to Andreas
|
||
Schultz).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-26: Version 0.93
|
||
|
||
- The menus and the channel display now show the current date and time.
|
||
- The new Setup parameter MaxVideoFileSize can be used to customize the
|
||
maximum size of the recorded video files.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in handling repeating timers that record over midnight (the
|
||
calculation of matching timers has been completely rewritten).
|
||
- Timers that are currently recording are now marked with '#' in the "Timers"
|
||
menu.
|
||
- Timers are now sorted in the "Timers" menu, showing the sequence in which
|
||
they will be recording. This can be disabled in the "Setup" menu. Note
|
||
that the "Mark" button doesn't work if timers are displayed sorted.
|
||
|
||
2001-09-02: Version 0.94
|
||
|
||
- Implemented automatic shutdown (see INSTALL and MANUAL for details).
|
||
- New SVDRP command NEXT to show the next timer event.
|
||
- The new remote control key "Power" can be used to turn the VDR machine
|
||
off (this requires the presence of the '-s' option).
|
||
- Fixed code for the default "Ok" button on the PC keyboard (was 0x162 on
|
||
the "good old" keyboards (with the F-keys at the left side), while it changed
|
||
to 0x15E on the newer keyboards).
|
||
- When a recording is edited, the summary information (if present) is now
|
||
also copied.
|
||
- When a recording is running on the primary interface, any attempt to change
|
||
the current channel will now lead to a "Channel locked" message.
|
||
- The main program loop now first checks whether any timer recordings are
|
||
finished, before starting a new timer recording. This is important in case
|
||
one timer ends at the same time another timer starts.
|
||
- New setup parameter OSDMessageTime to define how long an OSD message shall
|
||
be displayed.
|
||
- The "File" parameter of a timer can now contain the '~' character to store
|
||
the recording in a hierarchical directory structure. The '~' character has
|
||
been chosen since the file system's directory delimiter '/' may be part of
|
||
a regular programme name (showing the directory hierarchy in the "Recordings"
|
||
menu will follow later).
|
||
- Repeating timers now create recordings that contain the 'Subtitle' information
|
||
from the EPG data in their file name. Typically (on tv stations that care
|
||
about their viewers) this contains the episode title of a series. The
|
||
subtitle is appended to the timer's file name, separated by a '~' character,
|
||
so that it results in all recordings of this timer being collected in a
|
||
common subdirectory. You can disable this with the 'UseSubtitle' parameter
|
||
in the "Setup" menu.
|
||
- The summary information is now taken from the EPG data at the actual time of
|
||
recording (no longer at the time the timer is created in the "Schedule" menu).
|
||
If a timer already has summary data, that data will be used. If you have
|
||
repeating timers in your 'timers.conf', you may want to make sure they do
|
||
NOT contain any summary information (that's the last field in the timer
|
||
definitions). Use your favourite text editor to delete that information.
|
||
That way every recording will store the actual summary data at the time of
|
||
the recording.
|
||
|
||
2001-09-16: Version 0.95
|
||
|
||
- Fixed behaviour in case the shutdown didn't take place (there were many
|
||
"next timer event at..." messages in that case).
|
||
- Reduced the default value for MinEventTimeout to 30 minutes.
|
||
- Fixed detecting manual start in shutdown feature.
|
||
- An error message is now displayed in case the 'Transfer Mode' can't be
|
||
started because the necessary DVB card is currently recording (or there
|
||
is no DVB card that can access this channel).
|
||
- Fixed toggling channels with the '0' key in case the "Ok" button has been
|
||
pressed to display the current/next information.
|
||
- Pressing the "Power" key now always initiates the shutdown sequence (after
|
||
user confirmation in case of a recording timer), event if there is currently
|
||
a menu or a replay session active. Note the additional remarks in INSTALL
|
||
regarding the values of the two parameters given to the shutdown program
|
||
in case of a currently recording timer.
|
||
- Switching through channel groups with the "Left" and "Right" keys now
|
||
always starts at the group that contains the current channel.
|
||
- Implemented "Multi Speed Mode" (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Implemented backtracing to hit the right spot after fast forward/rewind
|
||
(thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Implemented replay mode display (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt, with a few
|
||
rewrites by kls).
|
||
- Changed the size of all input buffers used to parse config files or receive
|
||
SVDRP commands to the same value of 10KB. This allows long strings to be
|
||
used in the 'summary' field of a timer, for instance.
|
||
- The pipe to the Dolby Digital replay command (option '-a') now closes all
|
||
unused file descriptors in the child process to avoid crashing when the
|
||
OSD is used (thanks to Andreas Vitting).
|
||
- Switched to the driver's new tuning API (VDR now requires a driver version
|
||
dated 2001-09-14 or higher).
|
||
- Changed obsolete macro VIDEO_WINDOW_CHROMAKEY to VID_TYPE_CHROMAKEY (thanks
|
||
to Guido Fiala).
|
||
- New version of the "Master-Timer" tool (thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer).
|
||
- Better error handling when writing configuration files.
|
||
- Fixed putting the final editing mark into the edited version's marks file.
|
||
- Fixed manipulating an editing mark at the very end of a recording.
|
||
- Fixed starting a new replay immediately after stopping a previous one (had
|
||
caused a mix between live video and replay).
|
||
- Three new keys ("Volume+", Volume-" and "Mute") to control the DVB card's
|
||
audio output volume.
|
||
- New version of the 'epg2timers' tool (thanks to Carsten Koch).
|
||
|
||
2001-09-23: Version 0.96
|
||
|
||
- Made VDR compile with libdvdread-0.9.1 (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
Note that you now _need_ version 0.9.1 of libdvdread to compile VDR with
|
||
DVD support!
|
||
- Several fixes to the replay mode display (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt):
|
||
no more replay mode display when pressing the "Green" or "Yellow" button
|
||
(Skip +/-60s); fixed timeout when pressing '0' to set an editing mark while
|
||
the progress display is not shown; mode display is shown after progress
|
||
display is closed; pressing "Ok" while the mode display is on brings up
|
||
the progress display; no more unnecessary display of "normal play mode".
|
||
- Supplying the new frontend parameter 'Inversion' (currently it is always
|
||
set to INVERSION_AUTO, which should work with all channels on Astra).
|
||
- Removing unnecessary double quotes from EPG Subtitle in EPGBugfixLevel >=1.
|
||
- EPG info is now updated if the contents changes but the ID remains the same.
|
||
- Fixed handling SVDRP commands whith more than one blank between the command
|
||
word and the options.
|
||
- The current volume setting is now saved to setup.conf and restored at the
|
||
next program start.
|
||
- New command line option '-r' to define a command that gets called before and
|
||
after each recording (see INSTALL for details).
|
||
- Implemented a check to see whether the system time is running linearly.
|
||
- Writing the current time (as seen by VDR) into the log file when starting
|
||
a timer recording (this may help debugging cases where timers don't start
|
||
at the expected time).
|
||
- Made the volume, mute and power keys work when a menu is active, too (thanks
|
||
to Matthias Weingart).
|
||
|
||
2001-10-21: Version 0.97
|
||
|
||
- Implemented a lock file to prevent more than one instance of VDR from removing
|
||
files from the video directory at the same time.
|
||
- The new setup parameter SplitEditedFiles can be used to control whether or
|
||
not the result of an editing process shall be written into separate files.
|
||
- Fixed handling repeat function when using LIRC (thanks to Matthias Weingart).
|
||
- The shutdown program (defined with the '-s' option) now also gets the channel
|
||
number and recording title of the timer (see INSTALL).
|
||
- New channel data for 'Premiere One', 'Premiere X-Action', 'Fox Kids T<>rkce'
|
||
and 'N24' (thanks to Andreas Share, Ulrich R<>der, Uwe Scheffler and Simon
|
||
Bauschulte). Note that if you are using the default 'channels.conf' or
|
||
'channels.conf.cable' files you may need to check any exiting timers to see
|
||
whether they still use the correct channel number.
|
||
- Fixed the "EPG bugfix" (sometimes had duplicate information in Subtitle and
|
||
Extended Description).
|
||
- Fixed checking for valid video device when setting the video mode.
|
||
- The external command 'sort' is no longer required. VDR now sorts the list of
|
||
recordings itself, making sure that recordings that stem from repeating timers
|
||
are sorted chronologically. Sorting is done according to the setting of the
|
||
current locale, so you may want to make sure LC_COLLATE is set to the desired
|
||
value (see INSTALL).
|
||
- Fixed handling 'newline' characters in EPG texts (thanks to Rolf Hakenes for
|
||
an improved version of his 'libdtv').
|
||
Newline characters are always mapped to a single "blank" in VDR, because they
|
||
would otherwise disturb the Title and Subtitle layout in the channel display
|
||
(where these are assumed to be single line texts) and would have to be
|
||
specially handled in the 'epg.data' file and the LSTE command in SVDRP.
|
||
- Mapping ` ("backtick") characters in EPG texts to ' (single quote).
|
||
- Fixed timers starting and ending at unexpected times. 'localtime()' was not
|
||
thread safe, now using localtime_r().
|
||
- Removed the "system time seen..." message.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the replay mode display when pressing the Green or Yellow
|
||
button while in trick mode (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt)
|
||
- Closing all open file descriptors when calling external programs.
|
||
- The menu timeout now also works when pressing the "Back" button during replay
|
||
to enter the "Recordings" menu.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' for the "Bundesliga" channels of Premiere World
|
||
(thanks to Mel Sch<63>chner).
|
||
- Fixed reading timers.conf and channels.conf that contain blanks after numeric
|
||
values.
|
||
- Fixed handling trick modes near the beginning and end of a recording.
|
||
- Pressing the "Back" button while replaying a DVD now leads to the DVD menu.
|
||
|
||
2001-11-04: Version 0.98
|
||
|
||
- Completed storing the current audio volume in the setup.conf file (thanks
|
||
to Andy Grobb).
|
||
- Fixed closing the progress display with the "Back" key when in trick mode
|
||
and Setup.ShowReplayMode is enabled (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- New SVDRP commands LSTR and DELR to list and delete recordings (thanks to
|
||
Thomas Heiligenmann).
|
||
- Fixed a crash when pressing the '2' button while replaying a DVD.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' for the "Bundesliga" channels of Premiere World
|
||
(thanks to Mel Sch<63>chner).
|
||
- Changed the tuning code to use FrontendInfo to detect the type of DVB card.
|
||
- Removed the recursion stuff from cThread (cMutex already does this).
|
||
- Fixed handling the repeat function in the channel display.
|
||
- Avoiding multiple EPG entries for the same event (thanks to Rolf Hakenes
|
||
for some valuable information on how to do this).
|
||
- A recording on the primary interface can now be stopped to make it continue
|
||
on an other free DVB card (if one is free at the moment). See MANUAL for
|
||
details.
|
||
- Added some missing teletext PIDs (thanks to Norbert Schmidt).
|
||
- Added PTS to the converted PCM audio when replaying a DVD (thanks to Andreas
|
||
Schultz). Now the audio and video of a DVD replayed over the DVB card's A/V
|
||
out should always be in sync.
|
||
- Fixed handling the "Power" key in case Setup.MinUserInactivity is set to 0 to
|
||
disable automatic shutdown.
|
||
- Added a fifth parameter to the 'shutdown' call that indicates the reason for
|
||
this shutdown request (see INSTALL).
|
||
- Fixed releasing 'index' memory after recording or playback.
|
||
- Fixed ejecting a DVD while it is being replayed.
|
||
- Removed all video overlay stuff from cDvbApi and SVDRP. Guido Fiala's new
|
||
'kvdr' version 0.4 now does these things itself. As a consequence of this you
|
||
will now need to use kvdr 0.4 or later.
|
||
- The device /dev/video is now opened only if necessary (to GRAB an image),
|
||
allowing other programs (like 'kvdr', for instance) to use that device.
|
||
|
||
2001-11-25: Version 0.99pre1
|
||
|
||
- Fixed several channel definitions in 'channels.conf' (thanks to Thilo
|
||
Wunderlich).
|
||
- Added MPEG audio support for DVD (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
- Implemented DVB-T support (thanks to Dave Chapman).
|
||
This currently works only for UK channels.
|
||
- Removed the range limits for the Frequency and Srate parameters of channel
|
||
definitions.
|
||
- Changed the maximum value for PIDs in channels.conf from 0xFFFE to 0x1FFF.
|
||
- Fixed DVD audio sync problems (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
- Fixed external AC3 replay for DVDs (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
|
||
2002-01-27: Version 0.99pre2
|
||
|
||
- Fixed setting the OSD size in the 'Confirm' interface call (thanks to
|
||
Deti Fliegl).
|
||
- Removed the 'read incomplete section...' error message in the EIT processor.
|
||
- Fixed channel data for "DW TV" (thanks to Axel Gruber).
|
||
- Added DPID to "PREMIERE MOVIE 1" in channels.conf.cable (thanks to Stephan
|
||
Schreiber).
|
||
- Prepared the OSD functions for multiple overlapping windows.
|
||
- Removed the check to see whether the system time is running linearly.
|
||
- Improved performance of SVDRP command entry.
|
||
- Removed EPGBugfixLevel '3' - after more than a year Pro-7 finally managed to
|
||
broadcast the correct timestamps for EPG events between 0:00 and 6:00!
|
||
- Fixed failing watchdog timer if program hangs in OSD activities (thanks to
|
||
Carsten Koch).
|
||
- No longer requiring 'libncurses' if compiling without DEBUG_OSD=1 and
|
||
REMOTE=KBD (thanks to Lauri Pesonen).
|
||
- The "Recordings" menu now displays a hierarchical structure if there are
|
||
subdirectories for the recordings. This can be controlled through the
|
||
"RecordingDirs" parameter in the "Setup" menu.
|
||
See "MANUAL/Replaying a Recording" for details.
|
||
- Improved speed of setting the Help button texts.
|
||
- Fixed handling file names that contain single quotes (') or dollar signs ($)
|
||
in the call to the shutdown command (option '-s') and the recording command
|
||
(option '-r').
|
||
- Improved error handling in the editing process; the resulting file will be
|
||
deleted if an error occured.
|
||
- A message is now prompted at the end of the editing process, indicating
|
||
whether the process succeeded or failed.
|
||
- Fixed setting the LastActivity timestamp after a shutdown prompt (thanks to
|
||
Sergei Haller).
|
||
- A message is now prompted if free disk space becomes low during recording.
|
||
- The editing process now calls AssertFreeDiskSpace() to remove deleted
|
||
recordings if the disk becomes full.
|
||
- The "Main" menu now displays in its title the used disk space (in percent)
|
||
and the estimated free disk space (in hh:mm), assuming a data rate of 30 MB
|
||
per minute.
|
||
- Activating the "Recordings" menu now displays "scanning recordings..." to
|
||
give the user some feedback in case this takes longer.
|
||
- Status messages are now displayed centered.
|
||
- Removed the 'Tools' subdirectory from the VDR archive. All contributed tools
|
||
can now be found at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/Tools.
|
||
|
||
2002-01-29: Version 0.99pre3
|
||
|
||
- Fixed handling improper buffer lengths in the EIT parser (thanks to Deti
|
||
Fliegl).
|
||
|
||
2002-01-30: Version 0.99pre4
|
||
|
||
- Fixed handling improperly formatted EIT data (thanks to Rolf Hakenes).
|
||
|
||
2002-02-03: Version 0.99pre5
|
||
|
||
- Updated channel settings for 'N24' (thanks to Andreas Gebel).
|
||
- Fixed handling hierarchical recordings menu in case of directories starting
|
||
with the same sequence of characters.
|
||
- Fixed handling timers on the 29th, 30th or 31st of a month in case the next
|
||
month has less than 31 days.
|
||
- Added a description of the sort order of individual episodes in the
|
||
recordings menu to the MANUAL.
|
||
- Removed the EPG bugfix for "Title / Subtitle" cleanup. Apparently Pro-7 has
|
||
finally stopped this nasty habit.
|
||
- Added some EPG bugfix statistics (printed to the log file every time the EPG
|
||
data is cleaned up and when VDR is terminated). Maybe somebody in charge of
|
||
the EPG data at the listed channels will read this and take the necessary
|
||
actions to fix these things...
|
||
- Changed the [dei]syslog macros in tools.h to use a variable number of args,
|
||
thus making it safe to use them in nested 'if/else' statements.
|
||
- Fixed error handling in establishing an SVDRP connection (thanks to Davide
|
||
Achilli for pointing out this one).
|
||
- The new configuration file 'svdrphosts.conf' is now used to define which
|
||
hosts may access the SVDRP port (by default only 'localhost' has access).
|
||
See FORMATS for details.
|
||
- The special keywords TITLE and EPISODE can now be used in timer file names
|
||
(see MANUAL and FORMATS for details).
|
||
- The new setup parameter NameInstantRecord can be used to define how an
|
||
instant recording will be named (see MANUAL for details).
|
||
- When looking for the EPG record of the timer that starts a recording, now
|
||
that record is taken which covers the time calculated as
|
||
'start + (Setup.MarginStart * 2) + 1)' in order to have a better chance of
|
||
hitting the right record in case of an instant recording. Timers that start
|
||
further in the future should always be programmed via the "Schedules" menu.
|
||
- The special VPIDs '0' and '1' are now used to enable recording radio channels.
|
||
Actually '0' should be enough, but '1' must be used with encrypted channels
|
||
(driver bug?). Note, though, that since VDR is mainly a *video recorder*, some
|
||
features like, e. g., the progress display, may not work as expected with
|
||
radio recordings. Thanks to Michael Paar.
|
||
- Fixed a problem with the ERR macro defined by ncurses.h (thanks to Artur
|
||
Skawina).
|
||
|
||
2002-02-10: Version 0.99
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a bug in moving timers or channels to the last position in the list
|
||
(thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer for helping to debug this one).
|
||
- Changed the estimated data rate for calculating the remaining disk capacity
|
||
to 25.75 MB/min.
|
||
- Only reporting the 'EPG bugfix statistics' if there really were any fixes.
|
||
- Added Finnish language texts (thanks to Hannu Savolainen).
|
||
- Reverted to the previous way of searching for the EPG record of the current
|
||
recording in case of a repeating timer (i.e. taking the one that is in the
|
||
middle between start and end time).
|
||
- Added a typedef for 'in_addr_t' to make it work with glibc < 2.2 (thanks to
|
||
J<>rgen Schmidt).
|
||
- When the last entry in a "Recordings" menu page is deleted, that page is now
|
||
automatically closed (suggested by Uwe Freese).
|
||
- Changed the default name for instant recordings to "TITLE EPISODE" (avoiding
|
||
the '-').
|
||
- If Setup.ShowInfoOnChSwitch is set to "no", the box for the EPG display is no
|
||
longer shown (thanks to Andy Grobb).
|
||
- If compiled with VFAT=1, characters that can't be handled by a VFAT system are
|
||
now encoded to '#XX'.
|
||
- When the user presses the "Power" button and there is a timer about to start
|
||
recording within Setup.MinEventTimeout minutes, there is now a confirmation
|
||
prompt telling the user that there is an upcoming timer event.
|
||
- If a recording has no episode title, the trailing '~' is no longer shown in
|
||
the progress display.
|
||
|
||
2002-02-24: Version 1.0.0pre1
|
||
|
||
- Added scanning for EPG data for another 4 days on channels that support this
|
||
(thanks to Oleg Assovski).
|
||
- Removed '#define VFAT 1' from recording.c (was a leftover from testing).
|
||
- Fixed the "Low disk space!" message (thanks to Sergei Haller).
|
||
- Added the TPID to Hessen-3 in 'channels.conf' (thanks to Sergei Haller).
|
||
- Fixed a crash when replaying with DEBUG_OSD=1 (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Implemented the "First day" parameter for repeating timers. See FORMATS for
|
||
information about the enhanced 'timers.conf' file format, and MANUAL for
|
||
a description of the new item in the "Edit Timer" menu and the enhanced
|
||
functionality of the "Blue" button in the "Timers" menu.
|
||
- When deleting a recording that is currently still being recorded, the related
|
||
timer will now automatically be terminated. If this is a repeating timer, it
|
||
will receive a "First day" setting that skips the timer for this day.
|
||
- Fixed closing all unused file descriptors when opening a pipe (thanks to
|
||
Werner Fink).
|
||
- Instant recordings now take the EPG data from the point in time at 5 minutes
|
||
from the start time of the recording. In order for this to work the 'active'
|
||
parameter of a timer now uses the second bit to indicate that this is an
|
||
"instant" recording (see FORMATS for details).
|
||
- Fixed the SVDRP GRAB command in case the video device can't be opened (thanks
|
||
to Adrian Stabiszewski).
|
||
- At startup the data written into 'epg.data' is now read into the EPG data
|
||
structures. In order for this to work, the 'E' record has been extended to
|
||
(optionally) contain the 'table ID' (see FORMATS for details).
|
||
- The new SVDRP command PUTE can be used to put EPG data into the EPG list.
|
||
See FORMATS for details about the required data format.
|
||
- Taking the German umlauts 'as is' when compiled with VFAT.
|
||
- The new Setup parameter RecordDolbyDigital can be used to generally turn off
|
||
recording the Dolby Digital audio channels in case you want to save disk space
|
||
or don't have the equipment to replay Dolby Digital audio.
|
||
- Reading the 'setup.conf' file no longer terminates in case of an error, but
|
||
rather attempts to read the rest of the file.
|
||
- Removed DVD support from the core VDR source, since the current version from
|
||
Andreas Schultz is already much further developed (DVD menu navigation) and
|
||
the concept of "additional players" in VDR is going to change in version 1.1.0,
|
||
where a new "plugin" interface shall allow the easy implementation of new
|
||
players without having to patch the core VDR source. Until then, Andreas has
|
||
agreed to provide his DVD support as a completely external patch.
|
||
- The contents of the distribution archive now contains the directory name with
|
||
the current version number, as in 'vdr-1.0.0pre1/...' in order to avoid
|
||
inadvertently overwriting an existing VDR directory with a new version.
|
||
- Added a missing error message in SVDRP command LSTC in case the given channel
|
||
can't be found.
|
||
|
||
2002-02-25: Version 1.0.0pre2
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a crash in case there is no 'epg.data' at program start (thanks to
|
||
Andreas Schultz).
|
||
|
||
2002-03-03: Version 1.0.0pre3
|
||
|
||
- Fixed parsing 'E' records in epg2html.pl.
|
||
- Fixed a deadlock when switching channels via Schedule/Now|Next/Switch (reported
|
||
by Martin Hammerschmid).
|
||
- Changed the meaning of the 'Ca' parameter in 'channels.conf'. Each channel can
|
||
now define which decryption method it needs in order to be accessed. The new
|
||
configuration file 'ca.conf' contains the defined values, and the default
|
||
'channels.conf' has been modifed to contain the new values for 'Premiere World'
|
||
and 'ORF'. If you use the default 'channels.conf' and have the conditional
|
||
access hardware to receive encrypted channels, please make sure you copy the
|
||
file 'ca.conf' into your /video directory (or wherever your configuration files
|
||
are located) and go into the "Setup" menu and set the CICAM values according
|
||
to your hardware setup. Currently there are two possible CICAM entries per
|
||
DVB card, so any card can implement up to two different conditional access
|
||
modes (besides the default "Free To Air" mode, which is always assumed to be
|
||
available on any DVB card).
|
||
- Updated French language texts (thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto).
|
||
|
||
2002-03-17: Version 1.0.0pre4
|
||
|
||
- Added 'Ca' code 201 for 'Cryptoworks, GOD-DIGITAL' to 'ca.conf' (thanks to
|
||
Bernd Schweikert).
|
||
- Fixed avoiding the primary DVB interface in case Setup.PrimaryLimit is 0.
|
||
- Fixed handling CICAM settings if the first one of a DVB card was FTA.
|
||
- Fixed reacting on changes in CICAM settings (needed to restart VDR before).
|
||
- The "Blue" button in the "Main" menu now works as "Stop" button if a recording
|
||
is currently being replayed.
|
||
- New command line option '-m' to mute audio of the primary DVB device at
|
||
startup (suggested by Mirko G<>nther).
|
||
- The new SVDRP command VOLU can be used to control the audio volume (suggested
|
||
by Mirko G<>nther).
|
||
- Fixed resetting 'mute' state when setting the volume to a non-zero value.
|
||
- Added log messages when deleting recordings in case the disk runs full while
|
||
recording.
|
||
- Fixed closing a pipe (used for replaying Dolby Digital audio), which
|
||
sometimes left 'zombie' processes behind (thanks to Werner Fink for helping
|
||
to debug this one).
|
||
- Now starting the Dolby Digital output thread only if the recording actually
|
||
contains Dolby Digital audio data (thanks to Werner Fink).
|
||
- Implemented OSD for Volume and Mute (works only if there is no other OSD
|
||
activity, but this should be no problem for normal use).
|
||
- Changed the MANUAL description of the "Conditional Access" setup parameters
|
||
to reflect the actual "CICAM DVBn m" notation in the "Setup" menu.
|
||
- The new Setup parameter "Use time from transponder" can be used to define which
|
||
transponder shall be used to set the system time (see MANUAL for details).
|
||
If you have been using the SetSystemTime option previously, you now MUST
|
||
select a channel that you trust to have a reliable time base.
|
||
- Grouped the Setup parameters into several sub-menus, so that each group of
|
||
parameters fits on a single screen - unless the height of the OSD has been
|
||
set to a small value (based on code from Markus Lang).
|
||
- Changed the title of the "Main" menu to "VDR".
|
||
- Fixed displaying a system message while the replay mode is being shown.
|
||
- Physically removing a deleted recording if one with the same name shall be
|
||
deleted again.
|
||
- The "Left" and "Right" keys are now used to page up and down in text displays
|
||
(like the EPG descriptions or the results of commands executed from the
|
||
"Commands" menu).
|
||
- Fixed high CPU usage in 'Transfer Mode'.
|
||
- Replaced 'killproc' with 'killall' in 'runvdr', since apparently 'killproc'
|
||
is not available by default on some Linux distributions, whereas 'killall' is.
|
||
Please check if your system provides 'killall' - if it doesn't, please change
|
||
this back in 'runvdr' and report this (thanks to Achim Lange).
|
||
- The "Commands" menu now automatically assigns number keys as hotkeys to the
|
||
commands. If you have preceeded your commands with digits you may want to
|
||
remove these from your 'commands.conf' file.
|
||
- The new Setup item "Restart" can be used to force a complete restart of VDR,
|
||
including reloading the driver. Note that this can only work if VDR and the
|
||
driver are wrapped into a mechanism that actually performs this action if VDR
|
||
exits. The 'runvdr' script can be used for this purpose.
|
||
- Refined texts of the "Setup" menu.
|
||
|
||
2002-04-01: Version 1.0.0pre5
|
||
|
||
- Fixed restoring CICAM setup values for a fourth DVB card (thanks to Klaus Wolf).
|
||
- Completed internationalization of OSD texts (thanks to Hannu Savolainen,
|
||
Arnold Niessen, Paulo Lopes, Jean-Claude Repetto, Alberto Carraro, Matjaz
|
||
Thaler and Truls Slevigen).
|
||
- Improved file I/O in case of EINTR, which may occur e.g. with heavy system
|
||
load (thanks to Werner Fink).
|
||
- Now writing the title of a recording into the 'summary.vdr' file.
|
||
- Workaround for displaying still frames with the unpatched LinuxDVB driver
|
||
(if anybody ever finds out why the unpatched driver doesn't display VDR's
|
||
still frames, please let me know).
|
||
- When executing a command from the "Commands" menu, the title of that command
|
||
is now immediately shown in the status line (followed by "...") to give the
|
||
user some feedback that the command is being executed, which is especially
|
||
important if this takes some time.
|
||
- Fixed scrolling the "Channels" menu in case the cursor ends up on a group
|
||
delimiter (thanks to Bernd Zierath for helping to debug this one).
|
||
- Added manual pages vdr(1) and vdr(5) (which made the FORMATS file obsolete).
|
||
- New command command line option '-V' to display the VDR version.
|
||
- Adjusting column width for channel numbers in case there are more than 999
|
||
channels.
|
||
- Checking the return value of '...FileReady...' calls in dvbapi.c for better
|
||
performance under heavy system load.
|
||
- New 'make' target 'install', which copies the manual pages and executables
|
||
to their appropriate system locations and creates the /video directory if
|
||
it doesn't exist yet.
|
||
- Automatic hotkey assignment is now suppressed if the first entry in
|
||
commands.conf starts with a digit in the range '1'...'9', followed by a blank.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in switching back the replay mode display in time shift mode
|
||
(thanks to Achim Lange for reporting this one).
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the "First day" timer parameter for timers that record over
|
||
midnight.
|
||
- Added units to Setup parameters.
|
||
- Changed time entry in the 'Jump' command during replay, so that it is filled
|
||
up from right to left.
|
||
- Now using statfs() to determine the amount of free disk space, which avoids
|
||
the use of an external 'df' command (thanks to Ruben Nunez Francisco).
|
||
- Fixed skipping the next hit of a repeating timer (thanks to Rainer Zocholl
|
||
for reporting this one).
|
||
- Fixed a bug when a timer records over midnight of a day that had a change in
|
||
Daylight Saving Time (thanks to Mirko D<>lle for reporting this one).
|
||
- Added Polish language texts (thanks to Michael Rakowski).
|
||
- Fixed a bug in parsing group separators in channels.conf (thanks to Henning
|
||
Holtschneider for reporting this one).
|
||
- Changed the default 'Ok' key when using the PC keyboard from '5' (in the
|
||
numeric block) to 'Enter', because the '5' key didn't work on keyboards with
|
||
the F-keys on top.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the EPG bugfix mechanism if the extended description is shorter
|
||
than 3 characters (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
|
||
2002-04-07: Version 1.0.0
|
||
|
||
- Fixed a problem with wrong EPG data in the Schedules menu (thanks to Tobias
|
||
Kerner, problem was initially reported by Michel Moster, but somehow I had
|
||
misplaced his message...).
|
||
- Added Spanish language texts (thanks to Ruben Nunez Francisco).
|
||
- Fixed resetting the "First day" timer parameter once the timer actually starts
|
||
recording.
|
||
- Fixed the still picture workaround in case the progress display is active
|
||
(thanks to Gerald Raaf).
|
||
- Fixed a problem with accessing the epg.data file before it is fully written
|
||
(thanks to Thilo Wunderlich for reporting this one).
|
||
- Now the EPG scan skips channels that have their 'Ca' parameter explicitly set
|
||
to an other DVB card (suggested by Sergei Haller).
|
||
- Fixed a possible hangup when reading a broken epg.data file (thanks to Henning
|
||
Holtschneider for pointing out this one).
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the editing process in case a previously edited file with the
|
||
same name was manually deleted on a system with more than one video directory
|
||
(thanks to Dirk Wiebel for reporting this one).
|
||
|
||
2002-04-21: Version 1.0.1
|
||
|
||
- Added some DVB-T channels for Berlin (Germany) to channels.conf.terr (thanks to
|
||
Andreas Roedl).
|
||
- Implemented enhanced string editing with upper-/lowercase, insert/overwrite
|
||
and delete (thanks to Sergei Haller).
|
||
- Fixed color palette handling on "big endian" systems (thanks to Jean Martin
|
||
for pointing out this one).
|
||
- Updated the "Blue Movie" channels to the new "Premiere Erotik" (thanks to
|
||
Thilo Wunderlich). NOTE: this adds a new channel to 'channels.conf', so that
|
||
any timers referencing a channel with a number higher than 102 should be
|
||
checked and adapted if necessary (this only applies if you are using the default
|
||
'channels.conf').
|
||
- Improved thread locking in the ring buffer to avoid possible race conditions
|
||
under heavy load (thanks to Werner Fink).
|
||
- Fixed a crash when selecting the "Jump" function directly after setting an
|
||
editing mark (thanks to Steffen Koch for reporting and Stefan Huelswitt for
|
||
fixing this one).
|
||
- Fixed some missing ',' in i18n.c (thanks to Matthias Hilbig).
|
||
- Fixed a possible endless loop in shifting recordings between DVB cards (thanks
|
||
to Stefan Huelswitt for reporting this one).
|
||
- Updated the Premiere World Formula 1 channels in 'channels.conf' (thanks to Mel
|
||
Sch<63>chner).
|
||
- No longer setting PIDs 0x1FFF, which apparently fixes problems with CAMs and
|
||
AC3 sound only working the first time (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Now encoding '.' at the end of a directory name in case of VFAT=1, since Windows
|
||
can't handle these (thanks to Simon Dean for reporting this one).
|
||
|
||
2002-05-05: Version 1.0.2
|
||
|
||
- Now taking an active video cutting process into account when doing shutdown or
|
||
housekeeping (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- The default duration of an instant recording has been increased to 3 hours and
|
||
is now configurable in the "Setup/Recording" menu.
|
||
- Added Greek language texts (thanks to Dimitrios Dimitrakos).
|
||
- Fixed the unit of the "SVDRP timeout" setup parameter (thanks to Marcus Kuba
|
||
for reporting this one).
|
||
- Fixed a crash on systems with disks that have a block size larger than 1MB
|
||
(thanks to Ulrich Petri for helping to debug this one).
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' for the new PW settings (thanks to Andreas Share,
|
||
Carsten Koch, Gerald Raaf and Mel Sch<63>chner). Note that all channels with numbers
|
||
over 50 may have moved, so you should carefully check any timers you have set!
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf.cable' for the new PW settings (thanks to Oliver Lorei
|
||
Stephan Schreiber and Uwe Scheffler). Note that all channels may have moved, so
|
||
you should carefully check any timers you have set!
|
||
For future updates of this file somebody with digital cable should take the role
|
||
of the "maintainer" and send me updated versions based on the file that comes
|
||
with the most recent version of VDR. I will then simply replace the entire file
|
||
'channels.conf.cable' whenever a new version is sent to me.
|
||
- Fixed skipping forward in time shift mode near the end of the recording (thanks
|
||
to Andreas B<>ttger for reporting this one).
|
||
|
||
2002-05-09: Version 1.1.0
|
||
|
||
- Begin of the 1.1 development branch. THIS IS NOT A STABLE VERSION!
|
||
The current stable version for every day use is still the 1.0 branch.
|
||
- First step towards a universal plugin interface. See the file PLUGINS.html
|
||
for a detailed description. The man page vdr(1) describes the new options '-L'
|
||
and '-P' used to load plugins. This first step implements the complete "outer"
|
||
shell for plugins. The "inner" access to VDR data structures will follow.
|
||
- The VDR version number is now displayed in the title line of the "Setup" menu.
|
||
|
||
2002-05-11: Version 1.1.1
|
||
|
||
- Separated the actual DVB hardware OSD implementation from the abstract OSD
|
||
interface. 'osdbase.c/.h' now implements the abstract OSD, while 'dvbosd.c/.h'
|
||
is the actual implementation for the DVB hardware. This is in preparation for
|
||
allowing additional kinds of OSD hardware implementations.
|
||
- Fixed leftover references to the file FORMATS in MANUAL and svdrp.c (thanks to
|
||
Onno Kreuzinger for reporting this one).
|
||
- Avoiding ambiguities in the cList template class in case one defines a "list of
|
||
lists" (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Simplified the basic cMenuSetupPage class for easier use in plugins.
|
||
- Added setup parameters and a Setup menu to the 'hello' plugin example.
|
||
- Fixed logging error message for unknown config parameters in plugins.
|
||
- Rearranged cleanup sequence at the end of the main program.
|
||
- Adapted PLUGINS.html to use the actual code examples from the 'hello' plugin.
|
||
|
||
2002-05-13: Version 1.1.2
|
||
|
||
- Changed the cPlugin::Start() function to return a boolean value that indicates
|
||
if the plugin will not be able to perform its task (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Added the cPlugin::Housekeeping() function (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Updated channels.conf.cable (thanks to Uwe Scheffler).
|
||
- Added 'insert' capabilities to cList (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Changed the 'package' target in the plugin's Makefile to produce a package that
|
||
expands to a directory with just the plugin name and version number (suggested
|
||
by Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Made the config directory available to plugins (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
See PLUGINS.html, section "Configuration files" for details.
|
||
- Improved the [eid]syslog() macros, so that the LOG_... macros don't need to be
|
||
given any more.
|
||
|
||
2002-05-26: Version 1.0.3
|
||
|
||
- Updated 'Premiere Sport 2' in channels.conf (thanks to Rudi Hofer).
|
||
- 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 Swedish language texts (thanks to Tomas Prybil).
|
||
|
||
2002-06-10: Version 1.0.4
|
||
|
||
- Added Romanian language texts (thanks to Paul Lacatus).
|
||
- Removed compiler option '-m486' to make it work on non-Intel platforms (thanks
|
||
to Alastair McKinstry for pointing this out).
|
||
|
||
2002-06-16: 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.
|
||
|
||
2002-06-23: 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.
|
||
|
||
2002-07-21: Version 1.1.5
|
||
|
||
- Added direct access to the index data of cPalette (needed for displaying SPUs,
|
||
thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
- The status monitor function cStatus::Replaying() now gets a 'cControl *' argument instead
|
||
of a 'cDvbPlayerControl *' in order to allow additional players to call this function.
|
||
cPlayer and cControl have been given the functions GetIndex() and GetReplayMode() to
|
||
allow access to the player's status.
|
||
- Added cOsd::OpenRaw() to create a raw OSD (needed for displaying SPUs).
|
||
- Changed the symantics of the Name parameter in cStatus::Recording() and
|
||
cStatus::Replaying(). It is no longer the full directory name of the recording,
|
||
but rather just the basic name. This has been changed to allow players that can't
|
||
provide a name to simply use a string that describes the player type (like, e.g.,
|
||
"DVD").
|
||
- Fixed a hangup when switching to the next file during replay.
|
||
- Fixed a possible race condition in the cDvbPlayer (thanks to Andreas Schultz
|
||
for pointing out this one).
|
||
- Disabled channels on Transponder 12070 in 'channels.conf', which apparently no longer transmits.
|
||
|
||
2002-08-04: Version 1.1.6
|
||
|
||
- Re-visited the race condition fix in the cDvbPlayer (thanks again to Andreas
|
||
Schultz).
|
||
- Changed the VFAT handling to allow users who normally use it but have forgotten
|
||
to set it when compiling a new version of VDR to at least see their recordings
|
||
made with VFAT enabled (thanks to Christian Rienecker).
|
||
- Added some missing teletext PIDs (thanks to Joerg Riechardt).
|
||
- Fixed PID handling for cReceiver.
|
||
- Added a missing #include to ringbuffer.c (thanks to Martin Hammerschmid).
|
||
- Now using CC, CFLAGS, CXX and CXXFLAGS in Makefile.
|
||
- Changed the cDevice class to allow plugins to implement their own devices (see
|
||
PLUGINS.html for details).
|
||
|
||
2002-08-16: Version 1.1.7
|
||
|
||
- Adapted VDR to the NEWSTRUCT driver. To use the new driver, compile VDR with
|
||
'make NEWSTRUCT=1' (thanks to Holger W<>chtler for some valuable advice).
|
||
By default it currently still uses the old driver.
|
||
- Added some missing #includes (thanks to Martin Hammerschmid).
|
||
- Changed the log error message "can't record MPEG1!" to "error in data stream!",
|
||
since the mentioning of MPEG1 has irritated many people.
|
||
- Consistently using malloc/free and new/delete (thanks to Andreas Schultz).
|
||
- Temporarily made cDevice::ProvidesCa() virtual (Andreas Schultz needs this
|
||
in his DXR3 plugin).
|
||
- cDevice no longer exposes a file handle to cPlayer. A derived cPlayer class
|
||
can now call DevicePoll() to see whether the replay device is ready for
|
||
further data. A derived cDevice class must implement Poll() and shall
|
||
check if any of its file handles is ready for data.
|
||
- Implemented several replay modes to allow players that play only audio (thanks
|
||
to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Improved cCondVar::Wait() and implemented cCondVar::TimedWait() (thanks to
|
||
Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- VDR no longer gives up if there is no DVB device. It continues to work if
|
||
there is at least one device, either a DVB device found by the core VDR code
|
||
itself, or a device implemented by a plugin.
|