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Problem when editing a recording
by Jose Alberto Reguero 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

When pressing the key 2 to cut a recording with marks, give and error and say "Index file regeneration failed!" and the index is not generated. Fisrt time the recording is played, the index is regenerated properly. That is with vdr 2.8.2 and all the recordings. Best regards. Jose Alberto Reguero

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.8.2 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 01 Jun '26

01 Jun '26

VDR version 2.8.2 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with https://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.8.1: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed setting the color buttons in the "Recordings" menu. - Fixed checking frames when cutting a recording, in case an I-frame contains no video data. APIVERSNUM is now 30013. - Fixed wrong start times in the timer given to calls to cStatus::TimerChange() (reported by Robert Hannebauer). - Fixed setting the texts on the color buttons in the "What's on..." menu in case the current channel has no events. - Fixed pausing replay at the last editing mark (reported by Andreas Baierl). - Added cRemote::InEditMode(), which allows remote controls to detect when a string item is being edited. - The first column in the Setup menus is now sized dynamically, to avoid truncating texts. If any of the values in a call to cOsdMenu::SetCols() or cSkinDisplayMenu::SetTabs() is negative, it is now considered to be given as actual pixels. Plugins that reimplement cSkinDisplayMenu::SetTabs() need to adapt this function to handle negative values. See the default implementation in cSkinDisplayMenu::SetTabs(). - Added constants osUser11...osUser20 (suggested by Matthias Senzel). - Fixed displaying subtitles with the same PTS as the previous ones. - Improved recursive locking in cMutex (thanks to Dirk Nehring). - Made LastSignal in vdr.c 'volatile sig_atomic_t' (thanks to Dirk Nehring). - Added missing calls to Close() in cSocket (thanks to Dirk Nehring). - Increased ERROR_HANDLING_DELTA to 5 in cutter.c (suggested by Matthias Senzel). - Improved handling repeated keys in cRemote (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Added an upper limit of 2000 to "Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delay" and "Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delta" (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Changed incrementing PanicLevel, since '++' in this place is deprecated in C++20 (thanks to Dirk Nehring). - Extended the "Channel selection" section in PLUGINS.html (thanks to Winfried Köhler). - Now logging an error if the format string in a call to one of the *syslog() macros is too long (suggested by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Improved lirc.c (thanks to Jörg Riechardt and Stefan Herdler). - Fixed skipping forward to the next error if that error is exactly on the next I-frame. - Stale .timer files are now deleted when VDR is restarted (reported by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed the total error count in case of several edited sequences that contain errors (reported by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed a precedence problem in cLircDevRemote::Action(). - Added missing 'override' keywords. - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: https://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.8.1 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 21 Mar '26

21 Mar '26

VDR version 2.8.1 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with https://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.9: - Removed leftover cMenuRecordings::path. - Fixed a typo in the German OSD texts (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Opening a folder in the "Recordings" menu now selects the most recently played recording in that folder (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). APIVERSNUM is now 30012. - The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Open Recordings menu at last replayed" can be used to make the "Recordings" key on the remote control open the menu at the last replayed recording (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). See MANUAL for details. - Fixed handling the resume data in case the recording is renamed or moved (reported by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed an invalid lock sequence when deleting a recording that is currently being edited (thanks Matthias Senzel). - Fixed handling calls to cRecordings::DelByName() with extensions other than '.rec' (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). - Fixed estimating missing frames at the end of a recording (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - The resume file of a recording is now initialized when starting replay, to make sure it will be treated as "last replayed" (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed the description of cSkinDisplayReplay::SetJump() (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Fixed removing the Jump prompt in the replay display of the default skins. - Increased MAXFRAMESIZE to 3MB (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Now calling _exit() if exit() fails in the Watchdog (thanks to Stefan Herdler). - Revised the fix in handling kPause, kPlayPause and kRecord in case they are pressed during replay while a menu is open (thanks to Johann Friedrichs). - Increased the maximum number of devices to 32. - Now automatically updating items in the Recordings menu for ongoing recordings (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to István Füley). - The new menu category mcRecordingDel is now used to mark the "Deleted recordings" menu. - Added cSpuDecoder::setResolution(), plus implementation in cDvbSpuDecoder (thanks to Andreas Regel). For backwards compatibility with plugins that might derive from cSpuDecoder, the base class function is not pure, like the others, but simply empty, so that these plugins will still compile. - The new color constant clrTranslucent can be used to have the OSD's DrawText() functions actually set background pixels, which clrTransparent doesn't (reported by Matthias Senzel). - Changed the call to Skins.Message() to Skins.QueueMessage() in cEITScanner::Process(), to avoid an invalid lock sequence in case the skin's SetMessage() or Flush() function sets locks (reported by Stefan Herdler). - Changed all calls to Skins.Message() that don't use mtStatus and don't check the return value to to Skins.QueueMessage(), to avoid invalid lock sequences. - The "Edit recording" menu can now modify the value of the parental rating (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). - The function cRecordingInfo::SetData() is now deprecated. Use the explicit functions SetTitle(), SetShortText() and SetDescription() instead. - Finishd editing processes are now reported even if a menu is open. - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Marko Mäkelä). - Updated the Polish OSD texts (thanks to Tomasz Maciej Nowak). - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: https://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.9 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

VDR version 2.7.9 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.8: - Fixed the latest change in the SVDRP command NEWT for pattern timers (reported by Jürgen Schneider). - Added DELETEDRECORDINGS to the section about Locking in PLUGINS.html (suggested by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Fixed setting the title of the "Recordings" menu in case it becomes empty or non-empty. - Fixed handling kPause, kPlayPause and kRecord in case they are pressed during replay while a menu is open. - The "Deleted recordings" menu can now be entered via a dynamic item in the main menu, which replaces the "Red" key in the "Setup" menu. APIVERSNUM is now 30011. - Revised the German translation of "Number keys for characters" (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Removed an unused variable in cCutter::Start(). - Extended the descriptions of the Delete(), Remove() and Undelete() functions in cRecording. - Fixed deleting existing destinations in cRecordingsHandlerEntry (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Fixed cRecordings::DelByName() to work with file names that have '.del' as extension (reported by Stefan Herdler). - cRecordings::DelByName() is now deprecated because every caller has different requirements. - cVideoDirectoryScannerThread::ScanVideoDir() now also checks for vanished deleted recordings. - Added some debug output to the error message in cTimer::Matches(time_t t, int Margin) (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). - The language of title and short text of EPG events is now stored in cEvent (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). The 'X' tag in epg.data now uses the special "<stream> <type>" string of "0 00" to encode the language of title and short text. The three letter language codes in i18n.c have been adjusted to conform to iso639-2 (T/B). Users may want to check whether their preferred audio and subtitle language settings are still correct (this applies to the language codes "alb" "chi", "cze", "dut", "mac" and "rom"). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Marko Mäkelä). - Commented out unused parameters in cSdtFilter::Process() (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - When a replay ends by reaching the end of the recording, it automatically opens the "Recordings" menu at the location of that recording (suggested by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.8 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

VDR version 2.7.8 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.7: - Fixed a memory leak in cMark::Parse() (thanks to Fabian Wolter). - Revised the German language texts (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - The SVDRP command NEWT now returns code 550 if a timer with the same channel, day, start and stop time already exists (reported by Robert Hannebauer). - cVector::Remove() can now remove more than one elements (also fixed an off-by-one error in the call to memmove()). APIVERSNUM is now 30010. - Now using cTimeMs in cThread::Cancel() to make sure the given timeout is handled correctly. - cTimeMs::Elapsed() now always returns the time since the last call to Set(); introduced cTimeMs::Remaining() and cTimeMs::Reset(). - Fixed ending a recording right before the next I-frame. - The number of missing frames is now determined more accurately, even if there are longer gaps (reported by Stefan Hofmann). The following changes were made to implement this: + The definition of tIndexTs::missing has been changed from "after" to "before". After regenerating the index file, or cutting a recording from an earlier version, the position of the 'missing' flags in the index file may be shifted to the next I-frame. + cFrameDetector::SetMissing() is now deprecated and has been replaced with SetLastPts(). + cRecorder::Action() no longer increases 'errors' for missing frames. + The total number of errors is now handled by cFrameDetector. + Detecting missing frames is now done in cPtsChecker, and can properly handle any size gaps in the sequence of frames. + In case the video data stream is broken during recording, the estimated number of missing frames is stored in the 'O' tag of the info file (see man vdr.5). The actual number of missing frames will be determined when the recording is resumed (if possible). + When cutting a recording, the error checks are now newly performed to keep the error count consistent. - Added a workaround for H.265 recordings where the I-frames have no PTS (reported by Jürgen Schneider). - The command line option --updindex is now deprecated. If it is given, the index file will be generated completely new, as if --genindex had been given. - Combined cRecorder::GetLastPts() and cFileName->GetLastPatPmtVersions(). GetLastPatPmtVersions() is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Contact vdr(a)tvdr.de if your plugin uses this function. - Fixed a duplicate log message when the cutting thread ends. - Added indentation of conditional setup options (suggested by Tomasz Maciej Nowak). - Updated the Polish OSD texts (thanks to Tomasz Maciej Nowak). - Fixed the fix for expiring VPS timers in case the event has not yet startet after its announced end time. - Fixed a possible loss of audio packets when switching from Pause to Play (thanks to Andreas Baierl). - Made the time before a deleted recording is actually removed from the disk adjustable (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Deleted recordings retention" can be used to set the time (in days) deleted recordings will be kept on disk before being finally removed (unless new recordings need the space). With the default value of 0 the behavior is as before (5 minutes). - Deleted recordings that are still in their retention period can now be restored (based on the 'undelete' patch from Matthias Senzel). Press the "Red" key in the "Setup" menu to open the list of deleted recordings. This includes the following changes: + cRecording::Delete() now changes the extension of the cRecording's name member from *.rec to *.del. + cRecording::Undelete() now changes the extension of the cRecording's name member from *.del to *.rec. + cMenuRecordings::Delete() now moves the cRecording object from Recordings to DeletedRecordings. + The info page of a deleted recording shows the remaining time of that recording. See "MANUAL/Restoring deleted recordings" for details. - Fixed the button text for "Command". - The SVDRP command PLAY now returns the id and title of the currently replayed recording if no parameter is given (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Themes are now sorted alphabetically in the Setup/OSD menu. - Fixed handling themes that don't contain a Description. - Removed an outdated paragraph fom PLUGINS.html. - Updated version numbers and release dates of plugins' *.po files. - Synced version numbers of plugins with their respective HISTORY files. - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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cMark::Parse() mem leak
by Fabian Wolter 26 Oct '25

26 Oct '25

Hi, I'm a bit hesitant to post this, because a mem leak in such old code seems quite unlikely. But Valgrind reports an error, and if I see correctly the strdup() is already done in cString::operator=(const char *String). VDR 2.7.7 ==92645== 168 bytes in 6 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2,815 of 3,354 ==92645== at 0x48850C8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:381) ==92645== by 0x4E68B2F: strdup (strdup.c:42) ==92645== by 0x28F8EF: cMark::Parse(char const*) (recording.c:2288) ==92645== by 0x29534B: cConfig<cMark>::Load(char const*, bool, bool) (config.h:158) ==92645== by 0x28FD2B: cMarks::Update() (recording.c:2349) ==92645== by 0x28FB4B: cMarks::Load(char const*, double, bool) (recording.c:2325) ==92645== by 0x25B18B: cReplayControl::cReplayControl(bool) (menu.c:5748) ==92645== by 0x2F9C03: main (vdr.c:1452) Best regards, Fabian

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.7 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

VDR version 2.7.7 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.6: - Fixed cPoller::Poll() to allow negative timeout values again. - When regenerating the index of a recording, PID changes are now taken into account (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - In the "Timers" menu the '0' key now toggles between showing all timers and only the active ones (thanks to Matthias Senzel). - Reworked cTimer::Matches() (triggered by Markus Ehrnsperger): + Calculating the raw start/stop time of a timer has been moved to the new function cTimer::CalcStartStopTime(). If a plugin calls cTimer::Matches() with Directly==true, it should use cTimer::CalcStartStopTime() instead. If it calls cTimer::Matches() with Directly==false, it should call cTimer::Matches(time_t t, int Margin) instead. + The versions of cTimer::Matches() with 'bool Directly' are deprecated. Existing calls with Directly==true are redirected to cTimer::CalcStartStopTime(), and a log message is issued. + cTimer::Matches() now reports an error if it is called with a time parameter that is not the current time. + The "first day" parameter of a repeating timer is now only reset if cTimer::Matches() is called with t==0 and Margin==0 and it has been exceeded. + Access to the cached cTimer::start-/stopTime members is now protected via a mutex. + Plugins that use cTimer should continue to work as before. However, the author should react accordingly to compile time and log messages regarding these modifications. To test whether the plugin code will compile once the deprecated functions are removed in a future version, the macro DEPRECATED_TIMER_MATCHES can be set to 0 in timers.h. APIVERSNUM is now 30009. - Fixed the stop time of repeating timers in case of DST change (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). - Fixed expiring VPS timers in case the event has not yet startet after its announced end time. - Reverted the change in cCondWait::SleepMs() because of a possible lockup (reported by Johann Friedrichs). - Added cTimer::VpsTime() (suggested by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Now sending the SVDRP discover broadcast once per minute, to re-establish lost connections. - If an SVDRP peer connection is lost, the connection in the opposite direction is now also closed (reported by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Shutdown now takes into account the VPS margin (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Fixed an 'invalid lock sequence' when deleting the timeshift timer. - Added DeviceFreeze() when pausing at the last mark (reported by Andreas Baierl). - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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25 years of VDR
by Klaus Schmidinger 06 Jul '25

06 Jul '25

25 years ago today, on February 19, 2000, I released the very first version of the VDR. I never thought that this project would keep me busy for a quarter of a century. I would like to use this special anniversary to thank the many users who have contributed to the further development of VDR with suggestions, patches, bug fixes and plugins. At its peak, there were more than two thousand VDR users around the world (who registered with the VDR User Counter), of which today there are still a good 800 active. With the availability of media libraries and streaming, interest in a DVB recorder has naturally waned. However, there are also advantages to being able to record films and series under your own control without being exposed to the risk that they will disappear from the online offering at some point. On the page https://www.tvdr.de/cgi/vdr-counter?action=summary I have shown the history of the number of users over the years (generated from the counter's log file). In the first years of VDR, the number of users increased rapidly, peaking at over 2200. In March 2015, the counter started sending emails to those who had not accessed their entry for more than a year, marking them as "outdated" if they did not respond with a confirmation of their entry. This caused the number of active users to drop abruptly by almost 800, and in the following years it continued to decrease. Apparently many of the initial 2200 users only used VDR for a short time. In October 2024, this mechanism was revised so that those who have been notified once since 2015 will be notified again on a regular basis and have the option to either confirm or delete their entry. Here too, the number of active users fell by several hundred and settled at just over 800 in January 2025. Perhaps the "dark figure" is higher, because not everyone reads the VDR-Portal or the VDR mailing list. In any case, I still enjoy the project, and TV without VDR is unthinkable anyway ;-). I wish all VDR users continued enjoyment with it! Klaus

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Advice for vdr 2.6.9 and mpv plugin
by Karim A. 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Hi, I am building a new VDR machine under RX550 for hevc 10 bits. I can't afford to get a vdr 2.6.9 + softhddevice + mpv playing mkv files under Debian 13. I switched to Ubuntu 24.02 to use the Seahawk repository, which offers many ready-to-use packages with no succes. In this last attempt, mpv opens with a black screen because it's sticking with "alsa:device=default" instead of "audio-device=alsa/hw:1,9" Can anyone advice a working distribution and packages (for vdr / mpv / hevc / vaapi) ? Regards. PS : the only frontend which is working perfectly is Kodi by I prefer to stay in "vdr environnement".

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.6 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 21 Jun '25

21 Jun '25

VDR version 2.7.6 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.5: - Fixed some misplaced 'override' keywords in the 'hello' and 'skincurses' plugins. - cRecording now fetches priority, lifetime and framesPerSecond from cRecordingInfo. APIVERSNUM is now 30008. - Now forcing re-reading the info file of an ongoing recording (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Enabled manually turning subtitles on/off in 'after rewind' mode. - Limiting timeouts to a minimum of 3ms to avoid problems with polls and waits if timeout is 0. - Fixed strreplace() in case the search string is empty (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed automatic moving of the cursor when inputting characters with number keys (reported by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed updating the index when cutting a recording again (thanks to Matthias Senzel). - Speeded up determining the timer status of events in the Schedules menus. - Fixed Channel+/Channel- keys stopping replay of a recording. - Fixed an invalid lock sequence when pressing the Channel+/Channel- keys while in the "What's on..." menu in live view. - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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