Hello,

softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr softdevice plugin.

General info: Softdevice plugin enables vdr to run on your desktop with so called budget cards. You'll get vdr output via framebuffer or X11-Xv or DirectFB or vidix to your screen. Decoding is done via ffmpeg.

Supported vdr versions: 1.2.x, 1.3.x and 1.4.0

Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/

Changelog since last release: 2006-04-30: softdevice-0.2.3 2006-04-29: - enable build of ShmClient and video-shm when possible. - disable interlaced vs. not-interlaced (progressive) reporting via syslog. it's changing in seconds intervall for some stations. - dfb: fix screen not blanked with audio only stream. 2006-04-27: - change volume handling to no longer change the alsa-mixer settings - fix black screen for some aspect ratios using ShmClient 2006-04-25: - fix ShmClient blank screen every 4s 2006-04-24: - xv + dfb: removed some unused code. - vidix + fb: adjusted to use videoInitialized. - call Initialize() after all video constructors. - dfb: OSD responsivness in paused mode. 2006-04-23: - added volume changing without changing the alsa-mixer control (to use it add -DNO_MIXER, currently experimental) - fix for vdr-1.3.48 - remove duplicate remote code, call ProcessEvents() from the video thread and remove the RC thread - no longer link ShmClient to vdr objects - fix some includes - probably fix for processors not supporting mmx2 2006-04-21: - updated finnish translations (by Rolf Ahrenberg). - video-dfb: fix for crash at startup when software OSD blending was active. - video-xv: changed local flag initialized to videoInitialized of our super class. 2006-04-17: - cut away the left- and rightmost column of the osd 2006-04-14: - Expand top/bottom line and left/right coloumns (from vdr-portal). - Zoom feature, zoomed area may be shifted around. - yv12 -> yuy2 converter for field based chroma. - remember interlaced mode of current frame. - some preparations for some more XvImage formats (not yet selectable). - Restricted OSD alpha blend option to XV and VIDIX out. - started some documentation of our various OSD options. - applied patch for mono upmix from Lucian Muresan 2006-04-01: - applied Makefile patch from Antti Seppälä - apply slightly modified patch by Thomas Günter which fixes improper includes of vdr header files - fix compilation without Xinerama support 2006-03-31: - Xinerama support (detection and build requires to run configure). - reactivate use of source x/y offsets for Xv*PutImage(..) operations. 2006-03-21: - remove the image copy overhead from the ShmClient - catch errors on osd and xv image creation - support for non-shared memory xv 2006-03-12: - Fix StillPicture handling when no PES header is sent (for example streamdev-server-plugin) - redraw video layer on OSD close in software mode - use OsdWidth and OsdHeight for drawing osd layer 2006-03-11: - MMX version of AYUV_to_AYUV420P() - shortcut for AYUV no scale OSD modes 2006-03-10: - tune some parameters to avoid unecessary rescaling/redrawing of the OSD 2006-02-19: - some german translations - fix compilation of shm-client - fix compilation of video-shm 2006-02-18: - fix OSD drawn at wrong location in software OSD blending mode when cropping is active 2006-02-17: - fix bug #6409 (OSD not refreshed fast enough in software OSD blending mode when video is paused) - fix crash / deadlocks at startup in 16:9 mode in software OSD blending mode