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VDR Plugin 'block' Revision History
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2010/04/20: Version 0.0.1b

Initial release.

Fix: 'Ok' now in fact unlocks a blocked broadcast reliably
     (switch function was moved to destructor of control.c)


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2010/04/19: Version 0.0.1

First version.

This version is based on a cvs checkout (20100113) of the orphaned
vdr-plugin taste originally coded by LordJaxom aka Sascha Volkenandt.
Unfortunately the taste plugin did not work on vdr machines lacking a full
feature dvb card. So i tried to change some code  to achieve compatibility
with a broader range of configs and finally came up with a new version that
does the job on machines with a ff-card as well as on budget solutions (in
my case the dxr3) and state-of-the-art softdevice configurations. This patch
can be found here:
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=92550

Tobi then kindly offered me the opportunity to continue the development of
the taste plugin on projects.vdr-developer.org and i asked Sascha how he
feels about that, but he did not answer. So i decided to publish the new 
version as a fork called 'block'. This way Saschas work will remain 
untouched and i am completely free to continue my work on the plugin.


Differences in the block plugin
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** New features:

-Compatibility with non-ff output including budget and state-of-the-art
softdevice configurations added (channel switch analysis changed)
-Implementation of syslog functions (BLOCK_LOGGING in the Makefile set
	to 1 or 0 respectively will switch logging on/off)
	ATTENTION: This will add lots of entries to your syslog!


** Patches:

Patches by tomg and mapovi which were written for the taste plugin were
applied to a  were applied to a clean cvs checkout of the taste plugin
on 2010/01/13 so that they are permanently build in the block plugin now.

Locale patch:
  - fixed clean target of Makefile
  - adapted Makefile to current newplugin template
  - use translations of main vdr
  - exclude old i18n parts by ifdefs
Version compatibility:
  Changes for VDR >= 1.5.0 (applicable to VDR >= 1.4.5)
Makefile fix:
  added -fPIC to compiler options to prevent FTBFS

Some additional information can be found here:
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=90293
Thanks to tomg and mapovi for their kind permission to use the patches.


** WWW:

Project homepage: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-block/news

Author contact: Michael Schneider <vdrportal_midas at gmx dot de>