Hi,
here's a new release of the epgsearch plugin.
You can find it here:
http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html
wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.6.tgz
What's new?
2005-08-27: Version 0.9.6
new:
- search criterion 'use channel' extended by 'channel groups'. Channel
groups can be managed with their own menu and allow a much more
flexible way to select channels for the search procedure.
- epgsearch now exposes its extended timer …
[View More]edit menu and searching the
epg as services to other plugins (s. MANUAL or contact me, if you
are interested)
- if a timer is programmed for an event (searchtimer or manual
programming) then the summary is now also passed to the timer (allows
displaying the summary pressing 'ok' in timer menu), thanks to
TomG@vdrportal
- after toggling the color buttons with '0' in the schedule menu the
yellow/green button now move to the schedule of the
previous/next channel
- added a patch from Uwe/egal@vdrportal that replaces vdr's
standard schedule menu with the epgsearch plugin. Also big thanks to
Uwe for the changes in epgsearch. After patching VDR you have to
activate the patch in epgsearch's setup.
- after editing a new search, its entry now gets correctly sorted in
the list of all searches, thanks to Mike Constabel
- added Gerhard Steiner's timercmd patch for vdr >= 1.3.25
- a 'back' in the start menu now always closes the osd (should solve
some trouble with the submenu patch)
- events without title are now ignored, regardless of the search
criteria, thanks to Mike Constabel
- new EPG variable '%channel%', that can be used in directory entries
and gets replaced with the channels name
- recording margins in search timers can now be negative (allows
intentional cutting the begin/end of recording), suggested by Mike
Constabel
- extended EPG categories are now compared case insensitive
- updated finnish translation, thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg
fixes:
- '.epgsearchrc' now too is expected in the config path specified
with -c (if given), thanks to Ronny Kornexl
- fixed programming of timers with empty file and directory, thanks to
Andreas Brugger
- fixed search timer programming in case of midnight between start and
stop time
- fixed directory selection when listing of dirs is empty, thanks to
harvey@vdrportal
- (de)activating a searchtimer with '0' did not store, thanks to Mike
Constabel
- fixed menu navigation (green-yellow-yellow-green displayed the
summary instead of 'whats on now'), thanks to Mike Constabel
What is it about?
EPG-Search can be used as a replacement for the default schedules
menu entry. It looks like the standard schedules menu, but adds some
additional functions:
- Commands for EPG entries with 5 built-in commands like 'show repeats',
'create search'. One can add own commands for other needs, like adding a
VDRAdmin auto-timer.
- Add up to 4 user-defined times to 'now' and 'next'
- Searching the EPG: Create reusable queries, which can also be used
as 'search timers'.
- Search timers: Search for broadcasts in the background and add a
timer if one matches (similar to VDRAdmin's auto-timers) or simply
make an annoucement about it via OSD
- Progress bar in 'What's on now' and 'What's on next'
- Shift the time displayed by keypress, e.g. 'What's on now' + 30 minutes
- Start menu can be setup between 'Schedule' or 'What's on now'
- background check for timer conflicts (requires a recent timeline plugin)
- detailed epg menu (summary) allows jumping to the next/previous
event
- support for extended EPG info for search timers
Works only for vdr-1.3.x (x>=7). Tested on 1.3.10 to 1.3.30.
Parts of the sources are based on the repeating-EPG patch
from Gerhard Steiner, who gave me the permission to use them
(thanks for his work!).
Best regards,
Christian Wieninger
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This is something that has nagged me for a while, but since I though
it's not that important I never complained.
When there's a submenu open the "Menu" key turns off the menu and the
"Back" key goes back to the main menu.
However if a plugin implements the osd as cOsdObject the same keys do
the reverse: the "Menu" key goes back to the main menu and the "Back"
key turns off the menu.
Since conceptually (I mean, that's what the user sees on screen) the
plugin osd is a submenu of the main …
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derivative) this difference in behaviour is confusing.
At first I though I did something wrong in my plugins, but then I saw
that other plugins do the same (unless their osd is derived from
cOsdMenu) I looked at the menu code and it seems that's how things are
supposed to work.
Wouldn't it be possible to change that to make the same key do the same
action regardless if the plugin uses cOsdObject or cOsdMenu?
Bye
--
- Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software -
- I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? -
---------------------------------------------------------------
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es
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Hi all,
we have released a new version of the wonderfull ;) dxr3plugin.
The changelog is very short, because this is only a bug-fixing release.
2005-08-27: Version 0.2.4
- don't abort with lpcm frames containing an odd number of bytes, drop
the frame instead (Ville Skyttä)
- fix crash on audio sync buffer push timeouts (Jon Burgess)
- make the device call cDevice's Mute() and Clear() (Ville Skyttä)
You can find it here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dxr3plugin/vdr-dxr3-0.2.4.tgz?…
[View More]download
There are also some changes in our cvs:
* Head is now version 0.3.0-cvs as there are big changes in the plugin
* 0-2 branch contains this release - maybe the last on on the 0-2 branch
Greets,
Christian
--
Christian Gmeiner
Developer for Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org)
Maintainer of the DXR3-Plugin for VDR: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3plugin/
Maintainer of VDR-Ebuilds at Gentoo.de
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Carsten Koch wrote:
...
> I noticed that updating the recordings menu is still very slow.
> Caching the data of course did speed up things, but vdr still
> has to scan when /video/.update was touched (after an external
> change), when it starts up, etc. Also, this has been a workaround
> at best against the two basic flaws:
>
> 1) when replaying or recording, VDR floods the linux file system
> cache somewhat needlessly with data that do not need to be
> cached …
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> reside in the cache, thus slowing down the intire system and
> not leaving room in the cache for even the directory entries,
This has been fixed nicely by Ralf Müller's new "vdr-avoidTrashing"
patch, see http://vdr.unetz.com/download/patches
> 2) vdr's recordings scan is slowed down further by the fact that
> VDR opens all resume.vdr files to see if the recording is rewound.
> This problem can be greatly reduced by two steps:
> a) Remove the resume.vdr file if it points to (almost) the
> beginning of the file.
Attached is an updated version of my patch for VDR 1.3.30.
> b) Never try to read it. If the directory entry is there,
> with the above patch it can be assumed that the recording
> is not rewound.
This still needs to be done.
Any volunteers?
Carsten.
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Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've spent some time to find out what was wrong with my CAM and I
> found out that a failure to open /dev/dvb/frontend0/ca0" was not
> logged.
>
> So here's a small patch that add a trace (note that strerr_r is thread
> safe).
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- vdr-1.3.17/ci.c 2004-07-17 16:30:17.000000000 +0200
> +++ new/ci.c 2004-12-05 18:…
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> @@ -1361,6 +1361,11 @@
> LOG_ERROR_STR(FileName);
> close(fd_ca);
> }
> + else
> + {
> + char err [100] ;
> + dsyslog("Can't open ciHandler %s: %s",FileName,strerror_r(errno,err,100)) ;
> + }
> return NULL;
> }
>
This would result in an error message for every budget card without a CI.
Klaus
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Hello,
there is a new version of the pvrinput plugin available:
http://home.arcor.de/andreas.regel/files/pvrinput/vdr-pvrinput-0.0.5.tgz
Changes since 0.0.4:
- Fixed: memcpy length in last TS packet was wrong (thanks to Christian
Cier-Zniewski for reporting).
- Made PES to TS conversion MPEG compliant, stuffing in last TS packet
is now done with adaptaion field. (thanks to Christian Cier-Zniewski for
reporting).
- Static variables of PET to TS conversion are now non-static members of
…
[View More]cPvrReadThread. This is needed for multiple card support.
- Fixed: not switching to new channel when recording starts during
watching another analogue channel.
Andreas
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>
> Have you tested all versions between 1.3.24 and 1.3.30?
> It would help if we knew which version change exactly causes this.
>
> Oh, and please try without any patches or plugins (as far as possible).
o.k., I will make some tests with 1.3.29 and earlier
I just made a short test with vdr 1.3.30, to confirm the problem: yes, again
it took only a few minutes to freeze.
This time I had started the EPG scan manually befor. With other vdr
versions, I usually get a black picture …
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to switch back to the channel. With vdr 1.3.30, the picture freezes in a
funny way: The frozen picture contains of two halfs with the same content.
Sorry, I can`t describe it better in english.
(Das Bild besteht aus zwei Halften, von denen beide den gleichen Bildinhalt
haben)
I pressed "2" and the ZDF picture appears back. After about a minute, the
picture freezes and the log shows the "can`t set filter"-error. It seems
that the problem only appears during an EPG scan.
Then I set "EPG scan timeout" to 0 ,and now there are no freezes!
It seems that the other problem I posted (live picture freezes when
recording starts) does not appear als long as there is no EPG scan running.
My machine has a Fuji DVB-C with CI-modul (but no alphacrypt inside) and a
Lorenzen DVB-T card. I use the old DVB HEAD driver for 2.4
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Hello,
there is a new version of the pvrinput plugin available:
http://home.arcor.de/andreas.regel/files/pvrinput/vdr-pvrinput-0.0.4.tgz
Changes since 0.0.3:
- Switched to a self-written PES to TS conversion. libdvb is no longer
needed.
- Now using vbi embedded mode for reading the teletext data.
- fixed closing the radio device when switching to a non-tuner input
(thanks to Jose Alberto Reguero).
- Waiting for buffer to fill in GetTsPacket. This speeds up the
"hopping" over channels. You …
[View More]can change the
kTimeToWaitAfterChannelSwitch value to change the time to wait. 1000
works good for me and slows down things not too much.
- renewed ivtv.h to be compatible with ivtv 0.3 versions.
Andreas
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