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Von: Klaus SchmidingerAn: MLDatum: Heute 16:29:52VDR developer version 1.3.15 is now available at[url]ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.15.tar.bz2[/url]*** NOTE THAT THE WARNINGS REGARDING THE USE OF VPS CONTROLLED*** TIMERS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE NOTES STILL APPLY!The changes since version 1.3.14:- Fixed some typos in the Makefile's 'font' target (thanks to Uwe Hanke).- Added more checks and polling when getting frontend events (based on a patchfrom Werner Fink).- No longer explicitly waiting for a tuner lock when switching channels(apparently setting "live" PIDs before the tuner is locked doesn't hurt).Moved the wait into cDevice::AttachReceiver() instead.- Immediately displaying the new channel info when switching channel groups.- Moved the main program loop variables further up to allow compilation witholder compiler versions (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for reporting this one).- Now calling pthread_cond_broadcast() in the desctructor of cCondWait andcCondVar to make sure any sleepers will wake up (suggested by Werner Fink).Also using pthread_cond_broadcast() instead of pthread_cond_signal() incCondWait, in case there is more than one sleeper.- Making sure that timers and channels are only saved together, in a consistentmanner (thanks to Mirko Dölle for reporting a problem with inconsistentchannel and timer lists).- Now handling the channel name, short name and provider separately. cChanneltherefore has two new functions, ShortName() and Provider(). ShortName()can be used to display a short version of the name (in case such a versionis available). The optional boolean parameter of ShortName() can be set totrue to make it return the name, if no short name is available.The sequence of 'name' and 'short name' in the channels.conf file has beenswapped (see man vdr(5)).- Added the 'portal name' to cChannels (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).- Fixed handling key codes that start with 0x1B in the KBD remote control code.- Now using qsort() to sort cListBase lists. For this, the virtual functioncListObject::operator<() has been replaced with cListObject::Compare().Plugins that implement derived cListObject classes may need to adjust theircode.- The "Channels" menu can now be sorted "by number" (default), "by name" and"by provider". While in the "Channels" menu, pressing the '0' key switchesthrough these modes.- Fixed the buffer size in cRecording::SortName().- Now displaying the name of the remote control for which the keys are beinglearned inside the menu to avoid overwriting the date/time in the 'classic'skin (thanks to Oliver Endriss for reporting this one).Have fun!KlausCode
VDR developer version 1.3.14 is now available atftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.14.tar.bz2*** NOTE THAT THE WARNINGS REGARDING THE USE OF VPS CONTROLLED*** TIMERS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE NOTES STILL APPLY!The changes since version 1.3.13:- Fixed detecting transponder lock in cDvbTuner (based on a patch from StefanMeyknecht).- What was previously marked with WAIT_FOR_LOCK_AFTER_TUNING is now permanentlyactive and uses a cCondVar to signal when a transponder is locked.- Added some missing 'const' to cChannel.- Added a sample setup for 'DisiCon-4 Single Cable Network' to 'diseqc.conf'(thanks to Oliver Endriss).- Fixed attaching a cPlayer to a cDevice, so that 'Operation not permited'errors don't occur any more (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).- Fixed a case where the resultBuffer in cRemux ran full before getting a sync.- Removed the usleep() call from cDvbPlayer::Action() to make VDR run on NPTLsystems (thanks to Alfred Zastrow). The NPTL check at startup has also beenremoved.- Taking the complete size of available data into account when deciding whetherto clear the transfer buffer to avoid overflows (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).- Updated Romanian language texts and the iso8859-2 fonts (thanks to Lucian Muresan).- Now actually using the iso8859-15 fonts (thanks to Lucian Muresan).- Some minor code cleanups (thanks to Prakash K. Cheemplavam).- Fixed missing cleanup at program exit in case there is a problem with a plugin(thanks to Mattias Grönlund for pointing this out).- Increased the required free buffer space in the resultBuffer of cRemux to2 * IPACKS to avoid a buffer overflow in case a cTS2PES writes one completepacket and then (within processing the same TS packet) wants to write anothersmall packet.- Removed the signal handler and WakeUp() call from cThread (it is no longerneeded).- Added some checks when cancelling a thread and removed the usleep() incThread::Start() (suggested by Ludwig Nussel). Also removed 'running' fromcThread and using only childTid to indicate whether a thread is actuallyrunning.- Added cCondWait::Sleep() and using it to replace all usleep() calls (basedon a suggestion by Werner Fink).- Only assigning events to timers if the related schedule has actually beenmodified.- When searching for the present event, the running status is now only takeninto account if the event has been "seen" within the past 30 seconds.This avoids shortly seeing the wrong events in the channel display whenswitching to a channel that hasn't been tuned to in a while.Have fun!KlausCode
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2004-10-17: Version 1.3.13
- Fixed checking for the presence of NPTL (thanks to Jouni Karvo).
- Making sure section filters are only set if the device actually has a lock
(thanks to Andreas Share for pointing this out).
- Fixed a possible NULL pointer assignment in cMenuText::SetText() (thanks to
Marco Schlüssler).
- Fixed a crash in case the last line in channels.conf is a group separator and
that group is selected in the channel display (thanks to Dick Streefland).
- Added cRingBufferLinear::Read() to read directly from a file handle into the
ring buffer.
- Using timeouts in ring buffers to avoid 'usleep()'.
- Clearing the 'Transfer Mode' ring buffer after clearing the device to avoid
an "almost full" ring buffer.
- Removed locking from cRingBufferLinear for better performance under high load.
- Using a cRingBufferLinear in cRemux to avoid unnecessary copying of data.
- Using a cRingBufferLinear in cTSBuffer and filling it in a separate thread
to avoid buffer overflows. Plugins using cTSBuffer will need to remove the
call to the now obsolete Read() function (see cDvbDevice::GetTSPacket() for
the new usage of cTSBuffer).
- cRemux:Zunge raus rocess() has been split into Put(), Get() and Del() to allow for a
better decoupling of the remuxing and disk writing process. Plugins using
cRemux will need to be modified accordingly.
- The actual disk writing in recordings is now done in a separate thread to
improve the overall throughput.
- Changed cRemux so that it returns the maximum available amount of data with
each call, not just 2048 byte.
- Added a visual display of all cRingBufferLinear buffers for debugging. To
activate it, define DEBUGRINGBUFFERS in ringbuffer.h.
- Instead of cCondVar now using the new cCondWait (which also avoids a possible
"near miss" condition; thanks to Sascha Volkenandt for pointing out this one).
cCondVar is still present for plugins that use it (and VDR itself also still
uses it in cRemote).
- The cRingBuffer now does EnableGet()/EnablePut() only if the buffer is more than
one third full or empty, respectively. This dramatically improves recording
performance and reduces system load (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for doing some
testing regarding buffer performance and giving me some hints that finally lead
to finding out that this was the basic problem causing buffer overflows).
- Improved Transfer Mode (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for suggestions and testing).
- Fixed a possible crash with inconsistent SI data (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg).
- Fixed showing the replay mode if the OSD is currently in use (thanks to Kimmo
Tykkala for pointing out this problem).
- cOsdProvider::NewOsd() now always returns a valid pointer, even if the OSD is
currently in use (it will then return a dummy cOsd object and write a message to
the log file).
- Added Estonian language texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov).
- Fixed 'newplugin' and libsi/Makefile to use the compiler defined in $(CXX) for
generating file dependencies (thanks to Andreas Brachold).
- Moved the initialization of aPid1 and aPid2 to the beginning of cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice()
to have them set in case a patch references them (thanks to Wayne Keer for pointing
this out).
- Completed the Russian OSD texts (thanks to Vyacheslav Dikonov).
- Avoiding unnecessary section filter start/stops (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
- Made the "Channel not available!" message and mtInfo instead of mtError (suggested
by Wayne Keer).
- Made volume control more linear (thanks to Emil Naepflein and Udo Richter).
- Now skipping code table info in SI data (suggested by Milos Kapoun).
- Added missing Czech characters to fontosd-iso8859-2.c (thanks to Milos Kapoun).
- Fixed a crash in the time search mechanism (reported by Reinhard Nissl).
- If one PID can't be added, the whole cDevice::AttachReceiver() will now fail
and all PIDs added so far will be deleted (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for
pointing out this one).
- Now only saving channels.conf after a modification made by the user (avoids
lots of disk access due to automatic channel updates). Automatic channel
modifications will be saved every 10 minutes if no recording is currently
active.
- Removed the 'Log' parameter from the cChannel::Set... functions. Instead
checking if the channel has a non-zero number.
- Updated 'channels.conf.terr' for Hannover (thanks to Sven Kreiensen).