VDR developer version 2.1.4 is now available at

ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.4.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.1.3-2.1.4.diff

MD5 checksums:

e1018c13dc257c986e0e30494913b415 vdr-2.1.4.tar.bz2 870f6f03f4697d136c886358c3be4277 vdr-2.1.3-2.1.4.diff

WARNING: ========

This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment, I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging.

The changes since version 2.1.3:

- Updated 'sources.conf' (thanks to Antti Hartikainen). - cFont::CreateFont() now returns a dummy font in case there are no fonts installed. This prevents a crash with the LCARS skin on a system that has no fonts. - Improved locking for CAM slots and made the pure functions of cCiAdapter have default implementations, to fix a possible crash with CI adapters and CAM slots that are implemented in a plugin. - Added logging the supported system ids of a CAM. - Increased MIN_TS_PACKETS_FOR_FRAME_DETECTOR to 10 in order to be able to record channels that need more than 5 TS packets for detecting frame borders (reported by Eike Sauer). - Fixed deleting the source recording after moving it to a different volume (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Now waiting explicitly until all CAM slots are ready before switching to the initial channel when VDR is started. This is necessary in case CI adapters are used that are not physically connected to a dedicated device. The respective checks in cDvbDevice have been removed to avoid redundancy. - Fixed detecting frame borders in MPEG-2 streams that have "bottom fields" or varying GOP structures (reported by Christian Paulick, with help from Helmut Auer). - Now unassigning CAMs from their devices when they are no longer used. - Now making sure the primary device goes into transfer mode for live viewing if the CAM wants to receive the TS data. - Fixed a wrong alignment in cCiDateTime::SendDateTime(). - Since the new cRecordingsHandler that was introduced in version 2.1.2 not only handles "cutting", but also "moving" and "copying" recordings, the German word "Schnitt" has been replaced with the more generic "Bearbeitung", which covers all three variations of "editing" a recording (suggested by Christoph Haubrich). Maintainers of translations for other languages may want to change their *.po files accordingly. - The new function cStatus::ChannelChange() can be implemented by plugins to be informed about changes to the parameters of a channel that may require a retune. This may, for instance, be useful for plugins that implement live streaming, so that they can react on changes to a channel's PIDs or CA descriptors (problem reported by Mariusz Bialonczyk). - Fixed a superfluous call to the skin's SetRecording() function after renaming a recording (reported by Christoph Haubrich).

Have fun!

Klaus