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New version 0.95 of Video Disc Recorder available

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	Switched to the driver's new tuning API
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<p>
 Klaus Schmidinger writes:
	
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<p>

	  The new version 0.95 of the Video Disk Recorder project is now
	  available at

	
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<p>
    
	  <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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<p>
	  NOTE: VDR now requires that you use a <a
	  href="download/">DVB driver</a> version dated 2001-09-14 or
	  higher.
	
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<p>

	  <list>

		<li>Switched to the driver's new tuning API.</li>

		<li>Fixed behaviour in case the shutdown didn't take place (there were many
		  "next timer event at..." messages in that case).</li>

		<li>Reduced the default value for MinEventTimeout to 30 minutes.</li>

		<li>Fixed detecting manual start in shutdown feature.</li>

		<li>An error message is now displayed in case the Transfer
		Mode can't be started because the necessary DVB card is
		currently recording (or there is no DVB card that can access
		this channel).</li>

		<li>Fixed toggling channels with the '0' key in case the "Ok" button has been
		  pressed to display the current/next information.</li>

		<li>Pressing the "Power" key now always initiates the shutdown
		sequence (after user confirmation in case of a recording
		timer), event if there is currently a menu or a replay session
		active. Note the additional remarks in INSTALL regarding the
		values of the two parameters given to the shutdown program in
		case of a currently recording timer.</li>

		<li>Switching through channel groups with the "Left" and
		"Right" keys now always starts at the group that contains the
		current channel.</li>

		<li>Implemented "Multi Speed Mode" (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).</li>

		<li>Implemented backtracing to hit the right spot after fast forward/rewind
		  (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).</li>

		<li>Implemented replay mode display (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt, with a few
		  rewrites by kls).</li>

		<li>Changed the size of all input buffers used to parse config
		files or receive SVDRP commands to the same value of
		10KB. This allows long strings to be used in the 'summary'
		field of a timer, for instance.</li>

		<li>The pipe to the Dolby Digital replay command (option '-a')
		now closes all unused file descriptors in the child process to
		avoid crashing when the OSD is used (thanks to Andreas
		Vitting).</li>

		<li>Changed obsolete macro VIDEO_WINDOW_CHROMAKEY to
		VID_TYPE_CHROMAKEY (thanks to Guido Fiala).</li>

		<li>New version of the "Master-Timer" tool (thanks to Matthias
		Schniedermeyer).</li>

		<li>Better error handling when writing configuration files.</li>

		<li>Fixed putting the final editing mark into the edited
		version's marks file.</li>

		<li>Fixed manipulating an editing mark at the very end of a recording.</li>

		<li>Fixed starting a new replay immediately after stopping a
		previous one (had caused a mix between live video and
		replay).</li>

		<li>Three new keys ("Volume+", Volume-" and "Mute") to control
		the DVB card's audio output volume.</li>

		<li>New version of the 'epg2timers' tool (thanks to Carsten Koch).</li>

	  </list>

	
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<p>
Thanks Klaus and the many contributors!</p>