[vdr] MP3/MPlayer plugin 0.9.4 (development)

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

Hi all,
a new release of the MP3/MPlayer plugin is available from my
homepage. This release brings a feature which has been requested
often: a queue manager. For now you can only add files, but this
will change in future.

This release has to be considered unstable, as may ancient code
parts have been touched and changed.

BTW: I know that this announcement will find quickly the way into
vdrportal. That's fine. But please note, that I don't read
vdrportal on a regular basis. So if you want to comment on this
release or report a bug, please use the mailing list or direct
mail.

NEWS:
03.09.2004: Version 0.9.4 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)
- Added a queue manager. During playback you can add new songs to the playlist
  by selecting them from the MP3 menu/browser. To flush the playlist you have
  to stop the player for now. You can add new songs even if the player is kept
  idle (see below).
- Replaced setup option "mute at end of list" with "abort player at end of
  list". If you set this option to "no" and the end of playlist is reached, the
  player is kept idle. To restart playback select a song to restart from there
  or "up" to restart from the begining.
- Background scan (formerly known as ID3 prescan) now also can determine the
  song level. Note that level scan requires to decode the complete song. This is
  done on a seperate thread with nice 5 but nevertheless it needs CPU cycles. If
  your system crawls, you can set background scan to "ID3 only" in the plugin
  setup menu.
- Added commanline option -C to specify the directory to place the id3cache
  file. The default is to place the file into the video directory.
- MPlayer resume feature can now be disabled in the plugin setup menu. No resume
  file is created in this case.
- Another fix to the OSS output. Now using little-endian samples only (which
  should be supported by all soundcard drivers).
- Fixed mounting/unmounting of MPlayer sources (Bug introduced in 0.9.2). Thanks
  to Bill Blough for spotting this one.
- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

-- 
Stefan Huelswitt
s.huelswitt@gmx.de  | http://www.muempf.de/