Version 1.7.21

Original announce message:
VDR developer version 1.7.21 is now available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.21.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

       ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.20-1.7.21.diff

MD5 checksums:

7300bfd997db1a848bd774fefe4aec80  vdr-1.7.21.tar.bz2
c4e745939f31543dd607b97d58fc86be  vdr-1.7.20-1.7.21.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.

This version contains functions to determine the "signal strength"
and "signal quality" through cDevice. If you are using a DVB card that
contains an stb0899 frontend chip (like the TT-budget S2-3200) you may
want to apply the patches from

   ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/Driver-Patches

to the LinuxDVB driver source in order to receive useful results from
that frontend.

From the HISTORY file:
- Fixed detecting frames for channels that split frames into several payloads
  (reported by Derek Kelly).
- Now initializing Setup.InitialChannel to an empty string to avoid problems in
  case there is no setup.conf.
- The start time of an edited recording is now set to the time of the first
  editing mark (thanks to Udo Richter).
  This obsoletes the CUTTIME patch.
- Direct access to the members start, priority, lifetime, and deleted of cRecording
  as well as to position and comment of cMark is now deprecated. Plugin authors
  should switch to the new access functions for these members. For now the macro
  __RECORDING_H_DEPRECATED_DIRECT_MEMBER_ACCESS is defined in recording.h, which
  exposes these members, so that existing plugins will still compile. Comment out
  this #define to check whether a particular plugin needs to be modified.
  This #define may be removed in a future version.
- The new functions cRecording::NumFrames() and cRecording::LengthInSeconds() return
  the number of frames and length (in seconds) of a recording (suggested by Steffen
  Barszus).
- The subtitle PIDs are now stored in the channels.conf file as an extension to the
  TPID field (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
- The new function cDevice::ProvidesEIT() is used to determine whether a device can
  provide EIT data and will thus be used in cEITScanner::Process() to receive EIT
  data from the channels it can receive (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg). Note that by
  default it is assumed that a device can't provide EIT data, and only the builtin
  cDvbDevice returns true from this function.
- The Audio and Subtitles options are now available through the Green and Yellow
  keys in the Setup/DVB menu (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). This is mainly for remote
  controls that don't have dedicated keys for these functions.
- The SVDRP command HITK now accepts multiple keys (up to 31).
- The Recordings menu now displays the length (in hours:minutes) of each recording
  (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). Note that the "new" indicator has been moved from the
  recording time to the length column. This new format is also used by the SVDRP
  command LSTR, so in case you have an application that parses the LSTR output,
  you will need to adjust it to the new format.
- The dvbsddevice plugin now supports the new option --outputonly, which disables
  receiving on SD FF devices and uses the device only for output (thanks to Udo
  Richter).
- Fixed detecting frames on radio channels (reported by Chris Mayo).
- Revoked the changes to cFrameDetector that have been introduced in version 1.7.19.
  Detecting frames in case the Picture Start Code or Access Unit Delimiter
  extends over TS packet boundaries is now done by locally skipping TS packets
  in cFrameDetector.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 2aa2c21..be533c1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>
  for helping to debug a crash when using the --terminal option without having access
  to the given terminal
  for fixing following symbolic links in RemoveFileOrDir()
+ for suggesting to cache the length of a recording's index
 
 Peter Seyringer <e9425234@student.tuwien.ac.at>
  for reporting a bug in saving the polarization parameter of channels that have a
@@ -1111,6 +1112,11 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  for fixing some crashes in subtitle display
  for reporting that DELETENULL() was not thread safe
  for reporting a crash in subtitle display, related to cOsd::Osds
+ for a patch that stores the subtitle PIDs in the channels.conf file
+ for suggesting to implement a way for devices to tell whether they can provide EIT data
+ for making the Audio and Subtitles options available through the Green and Yellow
+ keys in the Setup/DVB menu
+ for making the Recordings menu display the length (in hours:minutes) of each recording
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
@@ -1708,6 +1714,9 @@ Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
  the marks file has just been written"
  for suggesting a fix for a bug in handling DiSEqC codes
  for fixing handling the channelID in cMenuEditChanItem
+ for a patch that sets the start time of an edited recording to the time of the first
+ editing mark
+ for adding the option --outputonly to the dvbsddevice plugin
 
 Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
@@ -2593,6 +2602,8 @@ Derek Kelly (user.vdr@gmail.com)
  for reporting a problem with the fps value in the info file of a recording being
  overwritten in case a recording was interrupted and resumed, and the fps value
  could not be determined after resuming recording
+ for reporting a problem with detecting frames for channels that split frames into
+ several payloads
 
 Marcel Unbehaun <frostworks@gmx.de>
  for adding cRecordingInfo::GetEvent()
@@ -2760,3 +2771,6 @@ Mark Hawes <MARK.HAWES@au.fujitsu.com>
 Frank Niederwipper <f.niederwipper@gmail.com>
  for reporting a problem in timer handling in case a recording directory can't
  be created
+
+Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com>
+ for reporting a problem with detecting frames on radio channels