Hello,

softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr softdevice plugin.

Softdevice plugin is for getting vdr to your desktop with so called budget cards. You'll get vdr output via framebuffer or X11-Xv or DirectFB or vidix to your screen. Decoding is done via ffmpeg.

For compile options, please read the Makefile carefully and decide which of the available output methods fit to your system.

Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/

Changelog since last release:

2005-05-22: softdevice-0.1.2 - fix possible segfault in fb-mode when resolution is smaller than OSD default size - fix pplib deinterlacing - check libavcodec build of library against header - some more error messages - fix for aspect ratio calculation if sample_aspect_ratio.num == 0 - README update for use of -L DIR usage - bugfix: don't blank screen in pause mode - blank screen after some time with no signal - offer selection of 14:9 mode - fix for pause-play transition of softplay, does improve same transiton of normal vdr recording playback too. - video-dfb: disabled deinterlacing option of dfb. - audio-out: some other preparations for ac3 selectiv set #channels to 2, to get 2ch downmix of 5.1 mute current mixer if volume is set to 0 and unmute if vol != 0 changed dsyslod to esyslog is case we exit() - syncing: switched to a sync timer which can be controlled by current selected output method - some preparations for ac3 out selection - xv-out & dfb-out: catch userX keys and map one of them to crop mode selection - dfb-out: commented out use of DFBCardCapabilities required for current DirectFB cvs. - dfb-out: triple buffering for mgatv, corrected x/y coordinates for OSD drawing (fix for subtitles plugin) - README: added contributor names mentioned in CHANGELOG added hint from Makefile about installing ffmpeg

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