vdr October 2024

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VDR User Counter now uses OpenStreetMap
by Klaus Schmidinger 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

The newly refurbished VDR User Counter at https://www.tvdr.de/counter.htm now uses OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps. If you have a user number and password, please log in at https://www.tvdr.de/cgi/vdr-counter?action=edit (click "Edit my entry") and check if your data is still up-to-date. If you don't remember your user number/password, enter your email address and click "Send me a new password". If you're a VDR user and have not yet registered with the VDR User Counter, please go to https://www.tvdr.de/cgi/vdr-counter?action=register and join the VDR community. Disclaimer: The VDR User Counter is an attempt to find out how many people are actually using VDR, so please register only if you are actually using VDR! Note that there is absolutely no obligation to register yourself in order to use VDR. VDR is free, open source software, so you can, of course, use it without anybody's approval. However, developing a program is more fun if the programmers know that it is being used by a great many people ;-). Have fun! Klaus

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Temporarily suspending the video output
by Marko Mäkelä 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

I would like to have a function to suspend VDR playback on my Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, so that I could occasionally use the screen for something else, such as a text console. Currently this is impossible because the video overlay would block the view on the text console layer. I can think of several possible ways to achieve this. (1) In the VDR core or in the video output plugin, monitor /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active for changes and automatically suspend and resume the output based on VDR is running on the active virtual console. The drawback would be: What if I detached the keyboard but forgot to switch the virtual console back, and another family member wants to watch TV? (2) Add a special setting to the video output plugin (rpihddevice in my case), and activate it from the OSD using remote control. (3) Change the VDR shutdown logic in some way, so that when the Power key is pressed, the audio and video output will be disabled immediately, as if the user had been inactive for a long time. The assumption here would be that a shutdown script or the existence of recording timers would prevent an actual shutdown. Years ago, I had written patches to do this. This would be easy to use from the remote control: Just press Power to suspend the output, and any other button to resume it. When the output is suspended, ideally I would like the tuner device descriptor to be closed to save some power. It should only run when needed for recordings or for updating the EPG once in every few hours. Marko

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.3 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 12 Oct '24

12 Oct '24

VDR version 2.7.3 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.2: - Removed defining DEPRECATED_* macros with value 0, because this is the preprocessor's default (suggested by Winfried Köhler). - Fixed error checking in case of large PTS discontinuities (reported by Matthias Senzel). - Fixed handling negative values in cSource::Position() on systems where 'int' is 64 bit (reported by Markus Ehrnsperger, fix suggested by Winfried Köhler). - Fixed expiring of one-time VPS timers in case there is more than one event with the same VPS time (suggested by Markus Ehrnsperger). - The Channel+/- keys can now be used to jump between errors while replaying a recording (suggested by Stefan Hofmann). - Added vdrrootdir and incdir to vdr.pc (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Plugins that have been built with API version 5 do not need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus

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