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 …
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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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- 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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