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author | louis <louis.braun@gmx.de> | 2012-12-29 13:29:10 +0100 |
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committer | louis <louis.braun@gmx.de> | 2012-12-29 13:29:10 +0100 |
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Version 0.0.5
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@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@ See the file COPYING for more information. Requirements ------------ -- VDR version >= 1.7.30 +- VDR version >= 1.7.34 - Installed ImageMagick for displaying png/jpg Icons, Channel Logos and EPG Images -- VDR Plugin epgsearch for displaying the progress bar in the schedulings "what's now" display. Description ----------- @@ -51,8 +50,8 @@ unzip it and place it accordingly the settings for the channel logos path. if no pathes are set for the different types of images, the following default paths are used: channel logos: {ResourceDirectory}/logos/ -icons: {ResourceDirectory}/icons/ -epg images: {CacheDirectory}/epgimages/ +icons: {ResourceDirectory}/icons/ +epg images: {CacheDirectory}/epgimages/ If directories for channel logos, icons or epg images are set via startup parameters, images are searched first in these directories. If the image @@ -100,50 +99,22 @@ In this example, as a dirty hack just create a folder in your channel logo direc With softhddevice as output plugin, use a Version newer than Revision f640ebde (0.5.1, 10.10.2012) to achieve a correct display of the screen resolution during channel switching. +For scaling the video picture to fit into the VDR menu window, currently you have to patch +softhddevice with the provided patch provided in ./patches/0003-softhddevice-video-scaling-without-YAEPG-vdr-1.7.33_v4.diff in the plugin sources. This patch should soon be included +in the softhddevice git. + + EPG Search Integration ------------------------- -nOpacity fully supports the alternative "schedules" menus provided by the EPG search plugin -(schedules, what's on now, what's on next, search results, favorites and "user defined times" -menu). If using the EPG search menus, please set "replace original schedule" to "true", -parallel usage of the vanilla VDR schedules menu and the schedules menu provided by EPG -search (with a dedicated main menu entry) is not supported. Please keep also in mind that -changing the schedules display behaviour needs to restart vdr, because nOpacity reads the -EPGSearch config only once at startup. - -If you use the default settings to display the EPG search schedule menus (if the file -epgsearchmenu.conf is not available in the epgserarch plugin config directory), everything -should work rather well out of the box. Just set "show progress in now" to "true" to achieve a -correct display of the progress bar in the "what's on now" view. - -Beside using the default settings you can also set up your own epgsearchmenu.conf file to -control the information which is diplayed in the various menus. All tokens described in the -epgsearchmenu.conf file in the epgsearch plugin sources (subdirectory ./conf/) are supported. -If epgsearchmenu is used, lines for all possible entries have to be set (see list below). -Otherwise the default epgsearch settings are used. -For me these entries for the different menus showed the best result: - -MenuWhatsOnNow=%chlng%:4|%progrT2S%:5|%time%:8|%status%:3|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -MenuWhatsOnNext=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -MenuWhatsOnElse=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -MenuSchedule=%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -MenuSearchResults=%chlng%:12|%time_w% %datesh%:6|%time%:6|%status%:2|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -MenuFavorites=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 -WarEagleIcons=1 - -Per default EPG search provides the short channel name (%chsh%), which is different to the "regular" -channel name for some channels. If %chsh% is used, for those channels no channel logos are displayed -if they are not appropriately renamed. - -The order of the tokens in the different sections of the epgsearchmenu.conf is not relevant how the -information in displayed in the skin. In fact the skin displays the various tokens in the way that -each menu item is displayed in three lines: -line 1: date and time information, status information -line 2: title -line 3: subtitle (if available) - -The first line is created out of the following tokens (if set) in this order: -%time_d% %time_w% %date% %datesh% %time% %timespan% %status% %t_status% %v_status% %r_status% +Since version 0.0.5 no special epg search integration is done anymore. Replacing the +original VDR schedules menu with the epg search menus is not possible currently. After the +epgsearch plugin has implemented the neccessary new VDR features, this will be possible again. +Use the additional main menu entry for accesing epg search. + +Until epg search has not implemented all new VDR features introduced in VDR 1.7.31 - 34, please +use the patch "epgsearch_menucats.patch" for epg search provided in the ./patches directory +in the source directory of the skin to grant correct functionality of epg search. Display of reruns of a show in detailed EPG View: if activated in the setup menu, nOpacity displays the reruns of a show via the EPG Search service interface in the detailed EPG view. @@ -156,19 +127,34 @@ Setup Options - Font: Used Font, all Fonts installed on your system are shown -* VDR menu: +* VDR menu: Common Settings: +- Number of Default Menu Entries: Number of menu items for the default menu view. +- Scale Video size to fit into menu window - Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 300ms -- Scale Video size to fit into menu window: yaepg Patch needed +- Display Disk Usage: Display Disk Usage in Main Menu +- Display Timers: Display active Tiers in Main Menu +- Menu Items Scrolling Speed +- Menu Items Scrolling Delay in s: period which menu element has to be selected + till scrolling starts +- EPG Window Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading) +- EPG Window Display Delay in s: period which schedules menu element has to be + selected till fade in of epg window starts +- EPG Window Scroll Delay in s: period which epg window has to be opened till + window text starts to scroll - Display Reruns in detailed EPG View: via epgsearch service - Number of reruns to display: Default 5 - Use Subtitle for reruns + +* VDR menu: Dimensions Settings: + - Width of narrow Menu Bar (% of OSD Width): Width of menu bar for the main menu, schedules menu and channels menu. Default: 30%. - Width of Disc Usage and Timers Display (% of OSD Width): Default: 12% +- Height of EPG Info Window (Percent of OSD Height): Height of text window which + is shown for schedules menu elements - Header Height (% of OSD Height): Default: 7% - Footer Height (% of OSD Height): Default: 7% -- Number of Default Menu Entries: Number of menu items for the default menu view. - Icon Size (Square Main Menu Icons): This size determinates the number of main menu entries per page. - Header Icon Size (Square Header Menu Icons) @@ -183,6 +169,9 @@ Setup Options - Detail EPG View Logo Height: Default 200px - Detail EPG View EPG Image Width: Default 210px - Detail EPG View EPG Image Height: Default 160px + +* VDR menu: Font Settings: + - Adjust Font Size - Header - Adjust Font Size - Date - Adjust Font Size - Large Menu Item: Font for Main menu and channels menu items @@ -196,7 +185,8 @@ Setup Options - Adjust Font Size - Detail View Text: Font for detailed EPG & recordings view text - Adjust Font Size - Detail View Header: Font for Header date/time and short text - Adjust Font Size - Detail View Header Large: Font for detailed EPG & recordings - view title + view title +- Adjust Font Size - EPG Info Window * Channel Switching: |