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VDR Plugin 'webvideo' Revision History
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2013-04-14: Version 0.5.0

- Compatible with VDR 2.0.0. VDR 1.6.x support dropped.
- Fixed ruutu.fi, katsomo.fi (low-quality mobile streams)

2012-09-30: Version 0.4.9

- Fixed support for Youtube

2012-09-24: Version 0.4.8

- Fixed support for Youtube, Google Video, ruutu.fi, MoonTV

2012-06-02: Version 0.4.7

- Support new Yle Areena
- Removed broken Vimeo support
- Fixed MoonTV and Metacafe

2012-02-26: Version 0.4.6

- webvi: New option --url for downloading a single video

2012-01-29: Version 0.4.5

- Fixed Youtube, Google Video breakage
- Removed SubTV support. SubTV programs are available in Katsomo.

2011-08-08: Version 0.4.4

- Fixed Youtube support
- Minor improvements in Katsomo and ruutu.fi support
- Disabled broken Vimeo search

2011-07-12: Version 0.4.3

- Streaming works on YLE Areena and on other sources which use
  external downloaders (playback in VLC does not work very well)
- Prefer mplayer over VLC when playing streams
- Fixed "Error 501: No active sockets" by properly implementing
  timeouts
- Improved ruutu.fi support

2011-06-12: Version 0.4.2

- Fixed katsomo.fi module.
- Watch on vdr bookmarklet now works also on katsomo.fi.
- webvi: Space in search terms was errornously replaced by plus.

2011-04-17: Version 0.4.1

- Fixed Youtube, Metacafe and Vimeo modules. Streaming does not work
  on Vimeo.
- Removed SVT Play module which was not working anymore.
- Accept -p as alternative to --postprocess (thanks to Matti
  Lehtimäki).
- New option --prefermplayer prefers mplayer over xineliboutput when
  streaming (thanks to Matti Lehtimäki).
- Bookmarklet for saving a video from the web browser (a patch by
  Samuli Sorvakko).
- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- New option --verbose (webvi)
- New option --vfat (or vfat in config file) generates Windows
  compatible filenames (plugin, webvi)

2010-11-18: Version 0.4.0

- SVDRP commands for playing and downloading videos (based on a patch
  by Matti Lehtimäki).
- Bookmarklet for sending a video from web browser to VDR.
- Correct template path in webvi.plugin.conf, respect user CXXFLAGS,
  SYSLIBDIR and DESTDIR in Makefiles, fix typos (patches by Ville
  Skyttä).
- Support VDR 1.7 series by including Make.global.
- Command line arguments override config file options.
- Fixes for Youtube, Metacafe and Google modules.

2010-08-26: Version 0.3.2

- Plugin: Possibility to run a script after downloading.
- New video service: MoonTV (contributed by Matti Lehtimäki).
- ruutu.fi uses rtmpe for some videos.
- Stream low bandwidth Youtube videos by default (configurable in
  /etc/webvi.conf)
- Fixed Google video module.
- Disabled ruutu.fi search which is not working.

2010-07-25: Version 0.3.1

- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
- Fixed Youtube extractor.
- Fixed Vimeo search.
- Timers are no longer marked as "Unfinished" after the download has
  been completed.
- Retry failed timers again later.

2010-07-12: Version 0.3.0

- Scheduled downloading
- Show error details on status screen by pressing Info
- Fix a crash when video URL is empty.
- INI file options for controlling the download quality.
- Add support for Finnish TV stations: MTV3 Katsomo, ruutu.fi, Subtv.
- Make all downloads abortable.
- Fixed Vimeo search.

2010-04-11: Version 0.2.2

- Remember query terms and menu positions when moving in history.
- Reduce delays when navigating the menu.
- Install libwebvi.so* links correctly. Run ldconfig.
- Write correct path to /etc/webvi.conf when installing to an
  alternative location.
- Show percentage as ??? on status page if the size is unknown.
- Fixed Youtube module.

2010-01-23: Version 0.2.1

- Support for all Python versions.
- Install the plugin with VDR's "make plugins". (If you use make
  plugins, you still need to install the library separately.)

2010-01-17: Version 0.2.0

- The daemon is replaced by Python library with C bindings. This
  simplifies the invocation of the VDR plugin and the command line
  client.
- New video service: Vimeo
- Re-added support for YLE Areena (requires rtmpdump-yle from
  http://users.tkk.fi/~aajanki/rtmpdump-yle/index.html).
- Youtube: using the official API (except for video pages), this
  should mean less breakage in the future. Various improvements on
  the menus.

2009-10-27: Version 0.1.7

- Compatibility fixes for Youtube and Metacafe modules.

2009-08-20: Version 0.1.6

- Fixed compilation on gcc4.4. Thanks to Anssi Hannula.
- Fixed Youtube module.
- Removed the outdated YLE Areena support.

2009-05-10: Version 0.1.5

- Don't crash VDR if can't connect to the daemon
- Updated to work with Python 2.6 (a parameter name has changed in
  asynchat)
- Force the installation prefix for Python scripts to be /usr, not
  /usr/local
- Command line argument --daemoncmd specifies the command for starting
  the webvid daemon

2009-05-05: Version 0.1.4

- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- Config file for webvi for defining player programs and the address
  of the daemon
- Streaming now reverts back to lower quality video if high quality
  version is not available (like downloading already did before)

Video site modules:
- Support for a new video site: Metacafe
- Youtube: adapted parsing to comply with recent changes on Youtube.
  Download HD quality video when available.
- YLE Areena: download high quality videos by default
- Google Video: support for videos hosted on Metacafe. Made parsing a
  bit more robust.

2009-04-08: Version 0.1.3

Plugin:
- Call libxslt.init() only it exists (old versions of libxslt don't
  have init())
- Update download progress indicators in the status screen at regular
  intervals

webvi, the command line client:
- Show download progress

Video site modules:
- YLE Areena: show error message if search fails, show categories in
  the main menu, various smaller parsing improvements
- Youtube: show error message if no search results, fix parsing of
  Movies category

2009-03-07: Version 0.1.2

- Unescape the stream URL before passing it to xineliboutput to make
  Youtube streaming work.
- Youtube: More robust parsing of search results page. Updated
  categories parsing according to recent changes.
- Updated Italian translations (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- Fixed a typo in German translation (thanks to Halim Sahin)

2009-02-24: Version 0.1.1

- Simplified building: better Makefile, fixed instructions in README
- Updated Italian translations (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- German translation (contributed by Andre L.)
- Daemon stops downloads gracefully when client disconnects
- Fixed segfault when a menu title is NULL (this happened for
  example on YouTube search results page)
- sane filenames: no slashs, no dots in the beginning
- Try to start daemon process automatically if can't open a connection
- Removed busy polling when loading the main menu
- Remove temporary file if the request fails
- Ability to cancel downloads (through the status screen)
- URLencode function in the plugin was bogus: the percent encoded
  values should be in hex, not in decimal
- Fixed problem with downloads never finishing if the server sends
  shorter file than expected
- History forward skipped over one page
- SVTPlay: various improvements to the parsing of the web pages

2009-02-08: Version 0.1.0

- The downloader backend is now a separate server process. The user
  interface is no longer blocked while the plugin is waiting for a web
  server to respond.
- Support for streaming
- A new command line client that has the same capabilities as the plugin
  but can be used without VDR.
- Alternative URLs for videos. For example, Youtube module first tries
  to download high quality version, and falls back to standard version
  if high quality version is not available.
- Cleaning up of the XML menu scheme. New menu items: textfields, item
  lists, query buttons.
- Status page that lists uncompleted downloads
- Updated YouTube, Google, and SVTPlay modules to work with the recent
  changes on these sites

2008-12-06: Version 0.0.6

- French translation (Thanks to Bruno Roussel)
- Fixed Youtube parsing to accommodate to recent changes

2008-09-08: Version 0.0.5

- New video service: SVT Play. Contributed by Lars Olsson.
- More robust parsing of .asx files
- Workaround for buggy servers: if the server reports the Content-Type
  of a video file as text/plain do not use it for deciding the file
  extension. Try to extract the extension from the URL instead.
- Sort service names alphabetically

2008-08-21: Version 0.0.4

- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- Include a workaround for a bug in the libmms header file mmsx.h
  which caused the compilation to fail
- Fix compiler warnings

2008-08-20: Version 0.0.3

- Support for video search
- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- Try mmsh if mms protocol fails (requires libmms 0.4 or later). Most
  videos on YLE Areena seem to work after this fix.
- Fix segfault when deleting the plugin at VDR exit
- Youtube: switch back to low quality FLV videos because not all
  videos have MP4 version

2008-07-24: Version 0.0.2

- Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto)
- Support for mms URLs using libmms
- Guess the file extension from the Content-Type header, not from the
  defaultext tag
- New video service: YLE Areena (the web service of the Finland's
  national broadcasting company). Only partial support, some of the
  URLs do not work with libmms.
- Youtube: Download higher quality MPEG-4 videos

2008-06-25: Version 0.0.1

- Initial revision.