vdr April 2006

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SetUserId()
by Tobias Grimm 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hello! If VDR is started with the "-u USERNAME" option to make it change from root to a less privileged user, VDR first checks with getuid(), if the current UID is 0 / root. I suggest to change VDR to use geteuid() here to check for the "effective UID". Background: In the c't-VDR Debian package, VDR runs with it's own user "vdr". In order to allow VDR to restart the vdr daemon from within its commands menu, a small setuid wrapper is used. This wrapper only changes the effective UID to "root", not the real UID. Because VDR does not check the effective UID, it will not call SetUserid() and happily runs with root privileges, even if provided with a username in the "-u" option. The effectice UID is used to evaluate the privileges of a process to perform a particular action. So I think it is more correct to let VDR check this UID, when deciding whether to change to a different user or not. bye, Tobias

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[PATCH] Tracklist for mp3 plugin using skin
by Holger Brunn 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello list, this patch provides a list view on the tracklist when using the skin to display progress information. It tries to behave like in classic mode which succeeds save displaying progress while showing the list - I didn't find a way to merge menu and progress skin classes. Features like jumping and scrolling work the same way as in classic display. Any comments and suggestions on this are highly appreciated. Regards Holger PS: The patch _should_ apply to 0.9.14 as well

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-filebrowser-0.0.5
by Holger Brunn 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello list, I'm glad to announce a new version of the filebrowser plugin, you can get it from http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uqg8/vdr/filebrowser/vdr-filebrowser-0.0.… Changelog: - Andreas Brachold fixed some memleaks in the patch for the image plugin and integrated it into upstream - thanks - Stefan Huelswitt added Service() functions for mp3 and mplayer plugins (needs version >= 0.9.15pre5) - thanks You can play files that are located in a directory in {mplayer,mp3}sources.conf, so you may need to add appropriate entries there - Removed patches for image and mp3/mplayer plugins (see above) - Start menuothercommands if available when receiving kOk on a file (not dir) (suggested by Ronny Kornexl) - Crash when selecting nonexistent source and switching to another (existing) one (thanks to Ronny Kornexl) - Crash when selecting OtherCommands on empty directory - Automatic removal wil remove only some commands that was marked for automatic removal Your comments, bug reports and patches would be appreciated, regards Holger

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-skinsoppalusikka-0.1.0
by Rolf Ahrenberg 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, a new weekly bugfix release of soppalusikka skin is available. Let's hope this version finally fixes all the remaining cosmetic bugs and we can jump into less frequently release cycle.. 2006-04-09: Version 0.1.0 - Updated German translation (Thanks to Jörg Bornkessel). - Updated Estonian translation (Thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Updated Spanish translation (Thanks to Luis Palacios). - Added missing include for isdigit(). - Modified the channel info to show the VPS time of following event only if 'Use small fonts' is set to 'skin dependent'. - Fixed background of color buttons, if menu doesn't use any labels. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/soppalusikka/ BR, -- rofa

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Loadepg: change provider for Sky Italia
by lukkinosat 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Loadepg: Change provider for Sky Italia Open file loadepg.conf and change: PROVIDER=Sky Italia:11880:V:S13.0E:27500 to: PROVIDER=Sky Italia:11366:V:S13.0E:27500 Hi, Lukkino :-) ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it

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vdr crash during replay
by Jörg Wendel 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, I have a little problem when replaying recordings. Sometimes (seldom) vdr crashes during replay. I can't reproduce it, the same recording works fine when i play it next time. The problem occurs about once a week. The vdr Version is 1.3.45 with Bigpatch, With older versions it was the same, i don't know exactly with with version is begun. When i check the backtrace its always the same, the mi pointer cMarks::Get is wrong. The backtrace: #0 Get__6cMarksi (this=0x8621f10, Position=8780) at recording.c:1429 1429 if (mi->position == Position) (gdb) bt #0 Get__6cMarksi (this=0x8621f10, Position=8780) at recording.c:1429 #1 0x080a3546 in Action__10cDvbPlayer (this=0x87a77b8) at dvbplayer.c:692 #2 0x080ff884 in StartThread__7cThreadP7cThread (Thread=0x87a77c4) at thread.c:244 #3 0xb7ee30ba in pthread_start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 (gdb) list 1424 } 1425 1426 cMark *cMarks::Get(int Position) 1427 { 1428 for (cMark *mi = First(); mi; mi = Next(mi)) { 1429 if (mi->position == Position) 1430 return mi; 1431 } 1432 return NULL; 1433 } (gdb) p mi $1 = (cMark *) 0x31 (gdb) p *mi Cannot access memory at address 0x49 (gdb) p Position $2 = 8780 Tanks and Greetings Jörg Wendel

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FF-card and AC3
by Antti Hartikainen 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I don't know when this has broken, or is it even VDR related.. My FF-card was without signal at winter and i've been using only budget-card that time (FF-card as SPDIF and tv out only).. Now i put signal back to FF-card and noticed that Dobly Digital audio tracks doesn't work (with budget they work fine, using FF-card as SPDIF and tv output only). I got external decoder, and it says only PCM (and no sound) when selecting DD-soundtrack. When watching same channel with budget card, Dolby soundtrack works fine. Firmware is F62623 (test-av 1.34) and driver is v4l-dvb from mercurial few weeks ago.

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-suspend-0.4.3 adapted for vdr-1.3.46
by Marko Mäkelä 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I've updated my vdr-suspend patch for vdr 1.3.46: http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.3.46-suspend-0.4.3.patc… General information of the patch: http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/#suspend Marko

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SVDRP Messages to OSD
by Mlists 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I'm trying to write a little program that sends caller id from another box to my vdr box. I can send messages through svdrp with no problems but how do I make the message multiple lines? I tried the typical \n and that doesn't do anything. Also, can I change the font size via svdrp? Thanks Norm

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.46
by Klaus Schmidinger 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

VDR developer version 1.3.46 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.46.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.45-46.diff I hope I have now fixed all remaining problems with VPS timers. VDR will now retune to the transponder needed for a VPS timer in case the user switches it away. It should also work if more than one VPS timer hits its VPS margin (it then uses different devices for the individual timers). So please keep an eye on VPS recordings and report any irregularities you might observe. Please make sure you provide a proper log excerpt, with logging set to --log=3 (the default) for maximum information. You also may want to make sure that all of VDR's log messages go into *one* file (on some systems log messages are spread into several files, which makes it hard to use the data in order to track down a bug). The final step remaining, before I'll call it version 1.4, is the automatic audio track selection during replay. I hope to get this done over the next weekend... The changes since version 1.3.45 - Fixed handling broken PMT records (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg for pointing out how to detect these). - Added a missing "Button$" for the Timer button and "Key$" in skinclassic.c (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed broken entry 'A111.1W' in sources.conf (reported by Luca Olivetti). - Replaced the obsolete entry 'S21.5E' in the default 'diseqc.conf' with 'S13.0E' (reported by Ville Skyttä). - Fixed learning keys when VDR is already running (thanks to Jurij Retzlaff). - Fixed handling the system time transponder setting in the Setup/EPG menu, which was broken by the min/max fix in cMenuEditIntItem. - VPS timers now record only events that have exactly the given start time. This fix also implements recording several subsequent events that have the same VPS time (like a sports event with intermittent news breaks). - When checking for timers that have entered the "VPS margin", any free devices are now used to switch to the needed transponder. This improves cases where more than one VPS timer is about to start. - Fixed handling the VPS margin in case the event's duration is shorter than the margin. - Fixed handling VPS timers in case the primary device needs to switch to the timer's transponder. - Now avoiding the 'actual' device when starting a recording, so that a Transfer Mode for live tv isn't interrupted. - Fixed a typo in skins.h (thanks to Alexander Rieger). - cSkins::QueueMessage() called from a background thread with an empty message now clears all messages that have been previously queued by that thread and have not yet beed displayed (thanks to Alexander Rieger). - Fixed handling the color button texts when switching from the 'Schedule' menu of a channel without EPG info to the 'What's on now' menu (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg). - cMenuEditIntItem and cMenuEditChanItem can now be given strings to label the minimum and maximum values, and the case that no channel has been selected, respectively. - The initial channel and volume can now be defined in the "Setup/Miscellaneous" menu (based on a patch from Thomas Keil). - When hitting the end of a recording in fast forward mode, VDR no longer switches back to normal speed if the recording is already finished (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - No longer calling cPlugin::ProcessArgs() if VDR is run with the --help or --version option, to avoid error messages from plugins (reported by Udo Richter). - Now checking whether there is any text before calling cStatus::MsgOsdTextItem() (reported by Joachim Wilke). Have fun! Klaus

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