vdr February 2015

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Updated Swedish translation strings
by Magnus Sirwiö 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Attached is the updated Swedish translations. If there are other Swedish speaking readers/users I urge you to review the translations added. Especially adding the texts for the adaptive skipping strings proved to be tricky. - Magnus

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 2.1.10
by Klaus Schmidinger 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

VDR developer version 2.1.10 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.10.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.9-2.1.10.diff MD5 checksums: 889f053463e2720f1ad6517cc19e82f6 vdr-2.1.10.tar.bz2 c126fb89a79db55867ae9d9a869569aa vdr-2.1.9-2.1.10.diff Approaching version 2.2.0: ========================== I have decided to release one more developer version because there were complaints about missing functionality from the "jumpingseconds" and "binary skip" patches regarding the Green/Yellow and Prev/Next keys, and I didn't want to cause another "patch frenzy" in this newly refurbished area of VDR. The other (more important) reason for this additional developer release was the change in the return value of cOsd::RenderPixmaps(), which is very important for plugins that implement their own version of cPixmap, e.g. for use with fast graphics hardware. If there are no more serious bug reports, the final version 2.2.0 of VDR shall be released on February 19, 2015, which marks the 15th anniversary of VDR. So please test this developer version intensely and report any problems you might encounter as soon as possible. The following language files still have the given number of untranslated texts: ar.po: 54 ca_ES.po: 54 cs_CZ.po: 54 da_DK.po: 187 el_GR.po: 250 es_ES.po: 54 et_EE.po: 3 fi_FI.po: 3 hr_HR.po: 187 hu_HU.po: 4 it_IT.po: 3 lt_LT.po: 3 mk_MK.po: 3 nn_NO.po: 315 pl_PL.po: 54 pt_PT.po: 82 ro_RO.po: 3 ru_RU.po: 54 sk_SK.po: 54 sl_SI.po: 55 sr_RS.po: 54 sv_SE.po: 54 tr_TR.po: 187 uk_UA.po: 3 zh_CN.po: 54 If nobody takes care of these, they will remain untranslated in version 2.2.0. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING TRANSLATIONS IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18! The changes since version 2.1.9: - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Macedonian OSD texts (thanks to Dimitar Petrovski). - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Updated the Ukrainian OSD texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk). - Added "#REMOTE=LIRC" to Make.config.template (suggested by Martin Dauskardt). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Increased the width of the left text column in the Setup menus to avoid cutting off German texts. - Added an empty target to the Makefile to make sure the sub-make for libsi is always called (thanks to Sören Moch). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto and Nino Gerbino). - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras). - The new options "Setup/Replay/Skip distance with Green/Yellow keys" and "Setup/Replay/Skip distance with Green/Yellow keys in repeat" can be used to configure the number of seconds to skip when pressing these keys once or pressing and holding them (based on a patch from Matthias Senzel, originally from Tobias Faust). - The new option "Setup/Replay/Use Prev/Next keys for adaptive skipping" can be used to change the behavior of these keys during replay. They normally jump between editing marks, but with this option set to 'yes' they will do adaptive skipping. - The new command line option --chartab can be used to set the default character table to use for strings in the DVB data stream that don't begin with a proper character table indicator (suggested by Christopher Reimer). The old mechanism of using the environment variable VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE still works, but is now deprecated and may be removed in a future version. The value given in the --chartab option takes precedence over that in VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE. - cOsd::RenderPixmaps() now returns a pointer to cPixmap instead of cPixmapMemory (suggested by Thomas Reufer). This is necessary to allow plugins with derived cPixmap implementations to use this function. Plugins that use this function with cPixmapMemory now need to add a dynamic cast to the call, as in cPixmapMemory *pm = dynamic_cast<cPixmapMemory *>(RenderPixmaps())); They also need to call DestroyPixmap(pm) instead of "delete pm" to properly release the resulting pixmap after use. The dvbhddevice plugin has been modified accordingly. - A cPixmap with a negative layer no longer marks any portion of the OSD's view port as "dirty" when drawing on it. This may improve performance when drawing on a hidden pixmap, because it avoids unnecessary refreshes of the OSD. - Added a missing initialization of "panning" to the constructor of cPixmapMemory. - Updated the Dutch OSD texts (thanks to Erik Oomen). - Updated the French OSD texts (thanks to Régis Bossut). - Fixed the German translation of "Zap timeout". Have fun! Klaus

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 2.1.9
by Klaus Schmidinger 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

VDR developer version 2.1.9 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.9.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.8-2.1.9.diff MD5 checksums: 59a63596f3fcfe7c81df8e92b4486f78 vdr-2.1.9.tar.bz2 e70d236f79bee5110f763a8109dba3d9 vdr-2.1.8-2.1.9.diff Approaching version 2.2.0: ========================== If there are no more serious bug reports, the final version 2.2.0 of VDR shall be released on February 19, 2015, which marks the 15th anniversary of VDR. So please test this developer version intensely and report any problems you might encounter as soon as possible. The following language files still have the given number of untranslated texts: ar.po: 51 ca_ES.po: 51 cs_CZ.po: 51 da_DK.po: 184 el_GR.po: 247 es_ES.po: 51 et_EE.po: 4 fi_FI.po: 1 fr_FR.po: 51 hr_HR.po: 184 it_IT.po: 4 lt_LT.po: 4 mk_MK.po: 51 nl_NL.po: 51 nn_NO.po: 312 pl_PL.po: 51 pt_PT.po: 79 ro_RO.po: 1 ru_RU.po: 51 sk_SK.po: 51 sl_SI.po: 52 sr_RS.po: 51 sv_SE.po: 51 tr_TR.po: 184 uk_UA.po: 4 zh_CN.po: 51 If nobody takes care of these, they will remain untranslated in version 2.2.0. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING TRANSLATIONS IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18! The changes since version 2.1.8: - Fixed a memory leak in case of broken Extended Event Descriptors (thanks to Lars Hanisch). - Fixed the German translation of "Binary skip timeout (s)" (thanks to Matthias Senzel). - Fixed the German translation of "VDR will shut down later - press Power to force". - Fixed the Finnish translation of "Binary skip timeout (s)" (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras). - Added SDNOTIFY to Make.config.template (suggested by Christian Richter). Also added NO_KBD and BIDI. - Added code from the "jumpplay" patch that makes the recording still be considered unviewed when stopping replay within RESUMEBACKUP seconds of the first mark. - The new option "Setup/Replay/Alternate behavior for adaptive skipping" can be used to make adaptive skipping only halve the skip distance when the direction changes. That way you can reach the desired point in a recording even if you make one too many skips in a certain direction (see MANUAL for details). - Fixed cCamSlot::Assign(), so that it actually ignores the value of Query if Device is NULL (as described in the header file). - Added a missing VDRDIR="$(CWD)" to the clean-plugins target of the Makefile, to avoid error messages regarding the missing vdr.pc file. - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Updated the Ukrainian OSD texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk). - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to István Füley). - Fixed switching channels in the Schedule menu after going through various Now and Schedule menus for different channels (reported by Matthias Senzel). - Fixed setting the Blue button in the Schedule/Now/Next menus, so that it only shows "Switch" if the selected event is on a different channel. - Added "NORDIG" to the list of "DVB/Standard compliance" options and using it to restrict the LCN (Logical Channel Numbers) parsing to networks that actually use this non-standard feature (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - In the "Edit recording" menu the '0' key can now be used on the "Name:" field to remove the name of the recording and replace it with the last element of the recording's folder path name (suggested by Christoph Haubrich). See MANUAL, section "Managing folders" for details. - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Nino Gerbino). - The "Select folder" menu now adds the folder names of all existing recordings to any names that have been predefined in "folders.conf" (suggested by Sören Moch). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed the German translations of "latitude" and "longitude" (they were swapped). - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to Mario Fenneis). - Modified runvdr.template to improve compatibility with the "bash" and "dash" shells. - Changed the German translations if the texts related to "binary skipping" (based on a suggestion by Thomas Reufer). - Updated sources.conf to reflect the fact that Astra 4A and SES5 are actually in two separate positions (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Fixed cMarks::GetNextBegin() and cMarks::GetNextEnd() (thanks to Stefan Herdler). The behavior of these two functions is now exacly as described in the header file. Editing marks that are placed at exactly the same offset in a recording are now preserved in the cutting process. - Changed the naming of "binary skip mode" to "adaptive skip mode" (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg and Derek Kelly). - cDvbPlayer and cReplayControl now use the same list of editing marks. This avoids inconsistent behavior with the "Skip edited parts" or "Pause replay at last mark" functions when the editing marks are manipulated during replay. - Fixed setting an empty recording name or folder to a blank in the "Edit recording" menu (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Added a confirmation before renaming a recording to its folder name (suggested by Christoph Haubrich). - Modified EntriesOnSameFileSystem(), so that it returns 'true' if either of the given files doesn't exist (to avoid any actions that might be triggered if files are on different file system), and changed handling the 'error' variable in cDirCopier, so that it is initialized to 'true' and will only be set to 'false' if the entire copy process has been successful (problem reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Added the UPDATE-2.2.0 file. Have fun! Klaus

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DVB-S2 PCIe or USB tuner recommendations?
by Stephan Loescher 08 Feb '15

08 Feb '15

Hi! I am planning to build a new VDR system for HDTV and DVB-S2. So I am searching for DVB-S2 tuners either PCIe (low profile) or USB. The best tuner would be one which is supported by the vanilla Linux kernel without patching or installing additional drivers. (Installing a firmware file is no problem.) I have already searched http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/, but there are only a few current tuners, which are documented as "works with vanilla kernel out of the box", e.g. Pinnacle PCTV DVB-S2 Stick (461e) or TeVii S471. (The others good working ones are not any longer available, even not as second hand.) So I am looking for your recommendations for current DVB-S2 PCIe/USB tuners, which work "out of the box" and work stable for a 7x24 running VDR. TIA and best regards, Stephan. -- loescher(a)gmx.de http://www.loescher-online.de/

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Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?
by Klaus Schmidinger 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

The next stable version of VDR (to be released on February 19) will contain the functionality from the "binary skip" patch (by Rolf Ahrenberg and Helmut Auer). Since most VDR users probably won't understand what the word "binary" means in that context, we're looking for a better wording for the setup parameters of this function. Currently these are (from the MANUAL): Binary skip initial value (s) = 120 Defines the number of seconds to jump from the current replay position in either direction, when pressing the '1' or '3' key for the first time after the "Binary skip timeout". The valid range is 10...600. Binary skip timeout (s) = 3 Defines the number of seconds after which pressing the '1' or '3' key falls back to the "Binary skip initial value". The valid range is 0...10. Setting the timeout to 0 disables the binary mode and makes '1' and '3' always skip the number of seconds configured as the initial value. Binary skip strict = yes When skipping in binary mode with the '1' and '3' keys, the distance of the skip is halved with every key press after the first change of direction. While this allows for locating a particular position in a recording very fast, once you make one step too many in the current direction you have no chance of ever reaching the desired point any more. You will have to wait for the timeout to occur and start binary skipping anew. If this option is set to 'no', the skip distance will only be halved if the direction actually changes. That way, even if you missed the target point, you can still back up to it. In this posting http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/p1231427-15-jahre-vdr-… M-Reimer suggested to change these to Initial value for bisecting skip distance (s) Timeout for bisecting skip distance (s) Always bisect skip distance The question now is: is "bisect" the right word here, which a native English speaker would use? Or should it rather be "halve"? Or something completely different? Please help us out here. Klaus

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15 years of VDR - time for a new stable version!
by Klaus Schmidinger 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

On February 19 (less than 3 weeks from now) it's going to be 15 years since the release of the very first revision of VDR. To celebrate this anniversary I'm planning on releasing a new stable version 2.2.0 on that very day. In order to help making this new version as stable as possible, please test the developer version 2.1.8 that I have just released today very thoroughly and report any bugs you might find. There will be one more developer version (2.1.9) which I plan to release next sunday (Feb 8). I would also appreciate if you could provide any missing translations for the OSD texts. Here's a list of all *.po files that need to be updated, followed by the number of missing translations: ar.po: 49 ca_ES.po: 49 cs_CZ.po: 49 da_DK.po: 182 el_GR.po: 245 es_ES.po: 49 et_EE.po: 10 fr_FR.po: 49 hr_HR.po: 182 hu_HU.po: 49 it_IT.po: 10 lt_LT.po: 49 mk_MK.po: 49 nl_NL.po: 49 nn_NO.po: 310 pl_PL.po: 49 pt_PT.po: 77 ro_RO.po: 10 ru_RU.po: 49 sk_SK.po: 49 sl_SI.po: 50 sr_RS.po: 49 sv_SE.po: 49 tr_TR.po: 182 uk_UA.po: 49 zh_CN.po: 49 Thanks to everyone for using VDR and contributing to its development, and for keeping this project alive for 15 years! Klaus

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Duplicate channels
by Adam Juraszek 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hello, I have a few months old system with vdr 2.0.6. VDR is used only as a backend for xbmc (via xvdr plugin). Everything works fine except for a few lags which I tracked to VDR creating new channels every now and then. When I checked the channels I noticed there are duplicates (there are 36374 channels and many of them are there about 500 times). I wouldn't be surprised if vdr would suffer performance problem with such number of channels. See the setup.conf (not changed in months), syslog and part of channels (got by LSTC command) and stats: https://gist.github.com/juriad/2b635ef475a6ddf829ab Why VDR creates duplicate channels? Is there problem with my configuration or is it a bug in vdr? What other information shall I provide? Thanks for your help.

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[PATCH] vdr-2.1.7 Romanian translation update
by Lucian Muresan 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hello Klaus, good to hear about the plans on releasing a new stable version on the 15th anniversary of VDR. Congratulations, keep up this this wonderful piece of work! Here is a patch with the updated Romanian translation for vdr-2.1.8. Best regards, Lucian

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New conf.d support + ONEDIR option. Need opinions.
by VDR User 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

VDR-2.1.7 added the following: - VDR now reads command line options from *.conf files in /etc/vdr/conf.d (thanks to Lars Hanisch). See vdr.1 and vdr.5 for details. It seems like this is a welcome change. I plan on moving my command line options into a single .conf I can share with all my VDR clients for convenience, and to simplify my tv script. But, I also take advantage of the ONEDIR option in Make.config because it's easier for me to keep track of & backup all of VDRs files. And I hate having files spread all over the place anyways. For those unfamiliar: # Use 'make ONEDIR=1' to have all data in one single directory: ifdef ONEDIR VIDEODIR = /video CACHEDIR = $(VIDEODIR) CONFDIR = $(VIDEODIR) RESDIR = $(VIDEODIR) endif To stay in line with the idea that ONEDIR actually keeps all data in one single directory, it makes sense that $ARGSDIR (where the conf.d files would otherwise go) be included as well. Otherwise, ONEDIR isn't actually consolidating all VDR data. I'm proposing adding ARGSDIR = $(VIDEODIR) to the ONEDIR ifdef. If anyone can think of a good reason not to do this, please voice your opinion. Thanks

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 2.1.8
by Klaus Schmidinger 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

VDR developer version 2.1.8 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.8.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.7-2.1.8.diff MD5 checksums: 1d2751e87def9b18b448513f24e635e9 vdr-2.1.8.tar.bz2 0487e037278f6f6684a7933674910f05 vdr-2.1.7-2.1.8.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment, I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The changes since version 2.1.7: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed "warning: invalid suffix on literal" with GCC 4.8 and C++11 (thanks to Joerg Bornkessel). - Fixed the link to "svdrpsend (1)" in the vdr.1 man page (thanks to Chris Mayo). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Added functionality based on the "jumpplay" patch from Torsten Kunkel and Thomas Günther: + The new option "Setup/Replay/Pause replay when jumping to a mark" can be used to turn off pausing replay when jumping to an editing mark with the '9' key. + The new option "Setup/Replay/Skip edited parts" can be used to automatically skip the edited parts of a recording during replay, without the need to actually cut the recording. + The new option "Setup/Replay/Pause replay at last mark" can be used to make replay go into Pause mode when it has reached the last "end" mark. + The '8' key for testing an edited sequence now also jumps to the next *end* mark if "Setup/Replay/Skip edited parts" is active. This allows for testing edits in recordings that have actually been cut, as well as recordings that have not been cut, in case "Skip edited parts" is enabled. - Added support for "Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) according to EN50607, also known as "JESS" (thanks to Manfred Völkel and Frank Neumann). - The keys '1' and '3' can now be used in replay mode to position an editing mark in "binary" mode (based on a patch from Rolf Ahrenberg, with modifications by Helmut Auer). See MANUAL, section "Editing a Recording". - The Yellow button in the "Setup/CAM" menu can now be used to put the selected CAM into a mode where it remains assigned to a device that is tuned to the current channel until the smart card it contains is activated and the CAM thus starts to descramble (see MANUAL, section "Setup/CAM" for details). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Added ARGSDIR to the ONEDIR section of Make.config.template (suggested by Derek Kelly). - Made cRecording::GetResume() public (suggested by Stefan Braun). - Fixed setting the read index in cDvbPlayer::Goto() in case Still is false. - The function cDvbPlayer::Goto() now automatically calls Play() if Still is false. - Added support for LCN (Logical Channel Numbers), which plugins may use to sort channels (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). Have fun! Klaus

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