Version 0.97vdr-0.97

- Implemented a lock file to prevent more than one instance of VDR from removing
  files from the video directory at the same time.
- The new setup parameter SplitEditedFiles can be used to control whether or
  not the result of an editing process shall be written into separate files.
- Fixed handling repeat function when using LIRC (thanks to Matthias Weingart).
- The shutdown program (defined with the '-s' option) now also gets the channel
  number and recording title of the timer (see INSTALL).
- New channel data for 'Premiere One', 'Premiere X-Action', 'Fox Kids Türkce'
  and 'N24' (thanks to Andreas Share, Ulrich Röder, Uwe Scheffler and Simon
  Bauschulte). Note that if you are using the default 'channels.conf' or
  'channels.conf.cable' files you may need to check any exiting timers to see
  whether they still use the correct channel number.
- Fixed the "EPG bugfix" (sometimes had duplicate information in Subtitle and
  Extended Description).
- Fixed checking for valid video device when setting the video mode.
- The external command 'sort' is no longer required. VDR now sorts the list of
  recordings itself, making sure that recordings that stem from repeating timers
  are sorted chronologically. Sorting is done according to the setting of the
  current locale, so you may want to make sure LC_COLLATE is set to the desired
  value (see INSTALL).
- Fixed handling 'newline' characters in EPG texts (thanks to Rolf Hakenes for
  an improved version of his 'libdtv').
  Newline characters are always mapped to a single "blank" in VDR, because they
  would otherwise disturb the Title and Subtitle layout in the channel display
  (where these are assumed to be single line texts) and would have to be
  specially handled in the 'epg.data' file and the LSTE command in SVDRP.
- Mapping ` ("backtick") characters in EPG texts to ' (single quote).
- Fixed timers starting and ending at unexpected times. 'localtime()' was not
  thread safe, now using localtime_r().
- Removed the "system time seen..." message.
- Fixed a bug in the replay mode display when pressing the Green or Yellow
  button while in trick mode (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt)
- Closing all open file descriptors when calling external programs.
- The menu timeout now also works when pressing the "Back" button during replay
  to enter the "Recordings" menu.
- Updated 'channels.conf' for the "Bundesliga" channels of Premiere World
  (thanks to Helmut Schächner).
- Fixed reading timers.conf and channels.conf that contain blanks after numeric
  values.
- Fixed handling trick modes near the beginning and end of a recording.
- Pressing the "Back" button while replaying a DVD now leads to the DVD menu.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b942603..e7e6731 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ option to set the controlling terminal, as in
 
 vdr:123:respawn:/usr/local/bin/vdr --terminal=/dev/tty8 -w 60
 
+Locale
+------
+
+When presenting the list of recordings, VDR sorts the entries according to
+the current "locale" settings. This makes sure that special characters (like
+the German "umlauts") appear at the expected positions. In order to benefit
+from this you may have to set the locale environment variable, for instance
+
+  export LANG=de_DE
+
+for a German locale. If you don't want this to result in German error messages
+in the log file, it is sufficient to just set
+
+  export LC_COLLATE=de_DE
+
+which only influences the way strings are sorted and leaves error messages
+in English.
+
 Automatic restart in case of hangups:
 -------------------------------------
 
@@ -109,7 +127,7 @@ active, the user has been inactive for at least MinUserInactivity minutes
 and the next timer event is at least MinEventTimeout minutes in the future
 (see the Setup parameters in MANUAL).
 
-The command given in the '-s' option will be called with two parameters.
+The command given in the '-s' option will be called with four parameters.
 The first one is the time (in UTC) of the next timer event (as a time_t
 type number), and the second one is the number of seconds from the current
 time until the next timer event. Your program can choose which one to use
@@ -129,6 +147,12 @@ and only perform the system shutdown. A program that uses the second parameter
 to set the hardware for restart must therefore also check whether the first
 parameter is '0'.
 
+The third parameter contains the number of the channel that will be recorded
+by the next timer (or 0 if no timer is present), and the fourth parameter
+contains the file name of the recording as defined in the timer (or an empty
+string if no timer is present). These can be used by the shutdown program to
+show that information on some display interface etc.
+
 If a timer is currently recording, the parameters will reflect the start
 time of that timer. This means that the first parameter will be a time in
 the past, and the second parameter will be a negative number. This only