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 DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2

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	DTV - New (minor) Release 1.2
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<a href="mailto:hakenes@hippomi.de">Rolf Hakenes</a> writes:</p>

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	  I am proud to announce the third public release of DTV. This
	  (minor) release is primarly intended to improve the
	  configuration capabilities of DTV. A new method for
	  key-definitions, user-definable menus and Dcl-style options
	  should enable anyone, who is able to understand and write some
	  Tcl stuff, to configure dtv to exactly his own needs. Of course
	  some bugs have been removed also. Finally I dropped support for
	  DVB driver versions prior to CVS (24/09/01). The code does only
	  works with the new tuning API. At last I included the newest
	  Astra channel settings of 1st, October.

	
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	  The main additonal features of the third publically released version 1.2 are:

	
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	  <list>

		<li>Fully-configurable user-interface. Each input event can
		trigger arbitrary actions on the output devices in any state
		of them. These actions can as well be Dcl commands or
		functions.</li>

		<li>User definable menus (dynamically, can be used to modify
		the menus of a running dtv via TCP link. Targeted applications
		are E-Mail notification and reading, answering machine control
		(together with vbox or mgetty))</li>

		<li>Completely revised option handling (look into
		variables.dcl). Event tracing capability (perform some action
		if something like channel switching happens to the output
		device).</li>

		<li>State and EPG save/restore on program exit/entry.</li>

		<li>Extended EPG facilities. Ability to scroll around in EPG data.</li>
   
		<li>LastVisitedChannel support (by using the '0' channel number)</li>

		<li>Volume control.</li>

		<li>Preliminary Record/Playback capability. If you would like
		to use this, you would have to get the stream from
		/dev/ost/dvrx and feed it back via 'ntuxplayer'. Better
		support will follow in the next (major) release.</li>
   
		<li>Preliminary AC3 capability. If you would like to use this,
		you would have to get the stream from /dev/ost/dvrx and feed
		it into your processor.</li>

		<li>Bug fixes:
		  <list>
			<li>fixed bug, that causes dtv to crash on missing remote control
                  name for LIRCD translation-tables.</li>
			<li>fixed: Diseqc bug (Satellite object has not been copied)</li>
			<li>fixed: Vtx-Bug (wrong PIDs selected, if AC3 available)</li>
		  </list>
		</li>
	  </list>
	
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	  The release is under Gnu GPL, the project is hosted by SourceForge.Net with
	  the Name hesdvb. The tarball of DTV can be downloaded from:
	
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	  <a href="http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.2.1.tar.gz">http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.2.1.tar.gz</a>

	
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	  Email comments and improvements to the <a
	  href="/mailinglists.xml">linux-dvb mailinglist</a> or directly
	  to <a href="mailto:hakenes@hippomi.de">Rolf Hakenes</a>
	
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<p>
	  Thanks Rolf!
	
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