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New version 0.94 of Video Disc Recorder available

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	Automatic shutdown and other improvements 
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<p>
 Klaus Schmidinger writes:
	
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	  The new version 0.94 of the Video Disk Recorder project
	  is now available at 
	
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	  <a href="http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm">http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm</a>
	
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	  <list>
		<li>Implemented automatic shutdown (see INSTALL and MANUAL for details).</li>
		<li>New SVDRP command NEXT to show the next timer event.</li>
		<li>The new remote control key "Power" can be used to turn the VDR machine
		  off (this requires the presence of the '-s' option).</li>
		<li>Fixed code for the default "Ok" button on the PC keyboard (was 0x162 on
		  the "good old" keyboards (with the F-keys at the left side), while it changed
		  to 0x15E on the newer keyboards).</li>
		<li>When a recording is edited, the summary information (if present) is now
		  also copied.</li>
		<li>When a recording is running on the primary interface, any attempt to change
		  the current channel will now lead to a "Channel locked" message.</li>
		<li>The main program loop now first checks whether any timer recordings are
		  finished, before starting a new timer recording. This is important in case
		  one timer ends at the same time another timer starts.</li>
		<li>New setup parameter OSDMessageTime to define how long an OSD message shall
		  be displayed.</li>
		<li>The "File" parameter of a timer can now contain the '~' character to store
		  the recording in a hierarchical directory structure. The '~' character has
		  been chosen since the file system's directory delimiter '/' may be part of
		  a regular programme name (showing the directory hierarchy in the "Recordings"
		  menu will follow later).</li>
		<li>Repeating timers now create recordings that contain the 'Subtitle' information
		  from the EPG data in their file name. Typically (on tv stations that care
		  about their viewers) this contains the episode title of a series. The
		  subtitle is appended to the timer's file name, separated by a '~' character,
		  so that it results in all recordings of this timer being collected in a
		  common subdirectory. You can disable this with the 'UseSubtitle' parameter
		  in the "Setup" menu.</li>
		<li>The summary information is now taken from the EPG data at the actual time of
		  recording (no longer at the time the timer is created in the "Schedule" menu).
		  If a timer already has summary data, that data will be used. If you have
		  repeating timers in your 'timers.conf', you may want to make sure they do
		  NOT contain any summary information (that's the last field in the timer
		  definitions). Use your favourite text editor to delete that information.
		  That way every recording will store the actual summary data at the time of
		  the recording.</li>
	  </list>
	
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<p>
Thanks Klaus!</p>