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The patch will get updated in 0.9.5. +- A couple of xine-lib-1.2 patches is still waiting to get + commited. vdr-xine-0.9.4 should be able to work without them. +- Fixed a couple of things in xine-lib-1.2 and VDPAU. +- Fixed compilation for VDR-1.2.x and VDR-1.6.x. +- Updated Makefile to VDR-1.7.17. +- Added support for VDR-1.7.17s TrueColor OSD. +- Added support for VDR-1.7.12s changed PCR handling. +- Added support for VDR-1.7.11s semantic of MakePrimaryDevice. +- Resolved a segfault regarding VDR-1.7.x and cutting marks in + radio recordings (thanks to Joachim Wilke for providing a + fix). +- Included Lithuanian translation (thanks to Valdemaras + Pipiras). +- Included Slovak translation (thanks to Milan Hrala). +- Included Chinese and Taiwanese translations (thanks to + NanFeng). +- Fixed MANUAL about centre_cut_out_mode (thanks to Vorg on + #xine-vdpau). + +2009-06-17: Version 0.9.3 + +- Updated MANUAL accordingly (e. g. some information about + xine engine buffer sizes). +- Implemented VDR-1.7.8s cDevice::GetOsdSize() and changed + cDevice::GetVideoSize() accordingly. +- Implemented video window support while showing an OSD for + VDPAU to support plugins like yaepghd. +- Clipped settings in setup page to reasonable values while + editing to prevent rendering an unreadable OSD. +- Introduced separate live TV buffer values for SD and HD video + as well as audio to allow faster "zapping" on SD channels + while still having large buffers for HD video. +- Fixed setup page display while changing OSD extent. +- Fixed a memory leak in processing TS still images. +- Fixed a bug in processing TS still images which caused the + tail of the image to get lost and hence the image not to get + shown. +- Updated it_IT.po (thanks to Diego Pierotto for providing the + translations). + +2009-05-03: Version 0.9.2 + +- Updated MANUAL accordingly. +- Added setup options to define OSD extent. +- Implemented VDR-1.7.7s cDevice::GetVideoSize() to return an + OSDs maximum extent. + +2009-04-12: Version 0.9.1 + +- Adapted PlayTs() to semantic of VDR-1.7.5. +- Fixed compilation for VDR 1.2.x, 1.4.x, 1.6.x and 1.7.x. +- Added support for tIndex being uint16_t (not tested yet). +- Changed trick speed modes to match GetSTC(). +- Fixed buffer calculation after discontinuity which caused + endless slow motion. +- Changed GetSTC() to match VDR 1.7.5's requirements. +- Implemented TS support to StillPicture(). +- Fixed crash due to calling PlayTs() from different threads. +- Fixed crashes due to negative OSD coordinates caused by some + skins. +- Fixed INSTALL regarding xine-ui cvs repository and how to + apply the patches as they have been created differently since + release 0.9.0. + +2009-01-12: Version 0.9.0 + +- Updated INSTALL and MANUAL accordingly. +- Fixed several multithreading issues which got triggered on + SMP systems (thanks to Edgar (gimli) Hucek for reporting + issues and testing fixes). +- Added support for VDR-1.7.3 besides TS still pictures. +- Pulled patched VDR-1.7.2's remux.[ch] for a quick adaption to + to VDR-1.7.3 (thanks to Klaus Schmidinger for his approval). +- Fixed PTS handling in xine-lib's FFmpeg decoder for recent + FFmpeg versions which should provide better A/V sync now. +- Added patch sets to input_vdr.c which allow to omit parts of + the MRL, e. g. vdr:// should be sufficient now (thanks to + Ludwig Nussel for providing them). +- Make use of new OSD functionality in xine-lib-1.2. For now + an OSD implementation must provide both new features to have + vdr-xine make use of it. +- Extended OSD support in xine-lib-1.2 to allow truecolor OSDs + as well as hardware scaled OSDs. The new functionality is + currently only provided by VDPAU enabled installations. +- Added frame grabbing support for accelerated frame formats to + xine-lib. Previously, xine-lib exitted the app when frame + grabbing was requested for accelerated frame formats like + xxmc. You'll now get a green image in that case. Reading back + the content of an accelerated frame is currently only + provided by VDPAU enabled installations. +- Hacked support for VDR-1.7.1's new cDevice::PlayTs() method. +- Grab image nolonger needs pnmcut to select the relevant area + of the TV image. Besides that, grab image respects the aspect + ratio you select in VDR's setup menu, i. e. a 16:9 setup and + a 16:9 broadcast will grab you a image without black borders. + A mismatch of aspect ratios will add black borders to the + image to match the visual impression you get on your TV set. + Additionally, the grabbing of field pictures was corrected + with regard to color upsampling. +- A script mkNoSignal.sh is provided to create custom logos. + Just provide PNG files named noSignal16x9*.png (and ...4x3... + respectively) and have the tools mentioned in INSTALL in your + path. You'll have to move your custom logos then over the + default files. +- The vdr-xine logo is now available in two aspect ratios (4:3 + and 16:9) as more channels provide 16:9 content. Then vdr-xine + selects the logo which matches VDR's DVB setup option video + format. +- Added the ability to detect discontinuities in live TV and + to start a new buffering period in such a case. This will + help to resume to fluent playback from bad weather conditions + or when disconnecting and reattaching the antenna cable. +- Updated it_IT.po (thanks to Diego Pierotto for providing the + translations). + +2008-03-10: Version 0.8.2 + +- Fixed optional parameter processing for parameter -p. As + getopt() requires that optional arguments must follow the + option switch without any delimiters, I've updated MANUAL + accordingly, i. e. all options are documented without + delimiters. Furthermore you'll get an error message when + specifying the argument for -p incorrectly. +- Fixed compilation of patched xine-lib-1.1 (thanks to Darren + Salt and Fabian Foerg for contributing fixes for this issue). +- Provided xine_get_current_frame_alloc() to xine-lib which + allows retrieving the current frame image without the need + to pause the stream for a second call to the function after + allocating sufficient memory. +- Fixed retrieving only valid PTS from xine. xine's metronom is + now intercepted to monitor PTS changes after which PTS are + considered to be valid. +- Fixed handling VDR's clear command. Adding sync points to the + stream makes sure that all data on the way to xine up to sync + point gets properly dropped. +- Added Russian translation (thanks to Oleg Roitburd for + providing ru_RU.po). + +2008-01-01: Version 0.8.1 + +- Updated documentation mentioning binary and devel packages + for xine-lib-1.2, so compiling xine can be ommited for some + distributions. +- Updated INSTALL regarding XINE VDR VERSION MISMATCH. +- The xine-lib.patch for xine-lib-1.1.x nolonger contains any + FFmpeg fixes for H.264 decoding. It is recommended to install + a recent FFmpeg and to add --with-external-ffmpeg when + configuring xine-lib. +- Contributed some xine-lib options for H.264 decoding. +- Adopted name and files changes of vdr plugin in xine. +- Updated it_IT.po and xineI18n.h (thanks to Diego Pierotto for + providing the translations). +- Implemented makefile switch VDR_XINE_VERIFY_BITMAP_DIRTY to + turn off dirty bitmap verification and hence safing calls to + memcpy() and memcmp() for OSD operations. +- Removed TCP_NODELAY for the video stream socket to reduce + network load. +- Fixed OSD scaling for HD subtitles. The scaler nolonger + allocates a fixed size buffer for a 720x576 OSD but guesses + typical maximum OSD sizes, i. e. 720x576, 1280x720, 1920x1080. + +2007-10-24: Version 0.8.0 + +- Frame duration was not set correctly in xine-lib for H.264 + frames, causing frame drops an non fluent playback. +- Added network patch (thanks to Tobias Grimm for supplying it). + Although I had planned to optimize it to just use one port and + only two sockets, I decided to release it in its current state + instead of waiting further years. I've just modified it to use + a more xine-like MRL netvdr://host:port#demux:mpeg_pes where + port is optional (defaults to 18701). The fifo MRL should now + be written vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes, although + a single slash will still work, too. +- Updated et_EE.po (thanks to Arthur Konovalov for supplying + the file). +- Fixed a bug in vdr-xine's buffer handling for live TV mode + which got most noticeable when switching back from a H.264 + channel to a MPEG2 channel, especially when the machine was + not capable of playing the H.264 stream in real time. As the + buffer was not cleared when switching channels, old H.264 + data was sent to xine instead of new MPEG2 data, which caused + xine to incorrectly switch to H.264 mode. This behavior could + lead to a crash in FFmpeg later. +- Fixed OSD handling in vdr-xine as certain subtitles could cause + a memory corruption in xine (thanks to Arthur Konovalov for + providing sample recordings). + +2007-10-17: Version 0.7.12 + +- Updated INSTALL and MANUAL accordingly. +- Added support for VDR-1.5.10's new key kSubtitles and fixed a + deadlock due to setting audio volume when changing the primary + device. +- Added a new configuration option "Connection interacts with EIT + scanner" as requested by Boguslaw Juza (see MANUAL for details). +- Added some patches to xine-lib regarding H.264 support, as + FFmpeg's decoder improved very much during the past weeks. It + supports now multithreaded decoding (you need to enable at + least 2 threads in xine-ui to make use of it) and almost + complete PAFF support which is used for interlaced images. + These new features are only available, when xine-lib is + configured to use an external FFmpeg installation. +- Added support for VDR-1.5.9's OSD levels. +- Fixed compiler warnings when compiled with gcc-4.2.x (thanks + to Joerg Bornkessel for suppling the patch). +- Exchanged noSignal.pes (thanks to Markus Nissl for supplying + the new image). + +2007-08-30: Version 0.7.11 + +- Added preliminary support for OSD changes in VDR-1.5.9. +- Added preliminary support for H.264 streams. xine uses FFmpeg for + H.264 decoding and as the decoder isn't rock stable at the moment + and doesn't support all H.264 features like interlacing, it is + likely that some frames do not get decoded or moreover that xine + crashes. +- Removed some unnecessary calls to clear xine's buffer when + switching between pause and play. +- Spent a lot of time fixing some issues in xine-lib. Integrated + a big bunch of my xine-lib patch into xine-lib-1.1.8. All patches + are now part of xine-lib-1.2. +- Added the opportunity to change xine's volume in software, like + when changing xine's config option gui.audio_mixer_method to + Software (thanks to Halim Sahin for the request). +- Added the possibility to configure different zoom settings for + 4:3 and 16:9 images, which are automatically activated when xine + signals a format change (thanks to Detlef Nebermann for the + request). + +2006-12-10: Version 0.7.10 + +- Updated xine patches to current CVS (should be compatible with + xine release 1.1.3). +- Fixed a segfault in SHQ OSD scaling code due to uninitialized + variables (thanks to Gregorie Favre for reporting this issue and + testing the fixes). +- Added noSignal-smallTextAtBottom.mpg to directory data (thanks to + John for supplying the file). +- Fixed a segfault in xine when there is no demuxer available (e. g. + the SuSE 10.1 xine-lib binary lacks support for MPEG2). +- Fixed compiler warnings on x86_64 architectures (thanks to Ville + Skyttä for compilation assistance). +- Added support to xine for the 3 new keys of VDR-1.3.47. +- Updated MANUAL accordingly. + +2006-04-17: Version 0.7.9 + +- Updated Finnish translation (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for + supplying the patch). +- Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.3.45. +- Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.3.47. + +2006-03-20: Version 0.7.8 + +- Fixed HISTORY as it mentioned future releases of VDR (thanks to + Klaus Schmidinger for reporing this issue). +- Fixed sending video data: the first packet after a Clear() got + dropped which made editing recordings impossible (thanks to + Gregoire Favre for reporting this issue). +- Fixed implementation of func_wait as it didn't synchronize VDR and + xine as expected. +- Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.3.44 cOsd::DrawBitmap() (thanks to C.Y.M. + for reporting this issue). +- Replaced 'prebuffer' by 'buffer' in vdr-xine's setup menu. +- Added new setup parameter "buffer hysteresis" which is added to + "Live-TV buffer" for determining the initial buffer size which + must be achieved before replaying switches to normal speed. It is + recommended to reduce your current buffer setting by the value + for hysteresis. +- Added PTS prediction to stop prebuffer phase much earlier on + channels which rarely add PTS to their stream's PES packets. +- Changed buffering to monitor the buffer size during a configureable + time after the configured buffer size (Live-TV buffer + hysteresis) + was initially established. + Whenever the buffer size drops below the configured value (of Live- + TV buffer frames), hysteresis is increased by an additional frame + and the new buffer is established. +- The above changes to buffering allow minimizing the buffer for + faster zapping on regular channels while not loosing the ability + to watch some special (mosaic) channels which required larger + buffer settings. +- Implemented continuous monitoring to reestablish the buffer once + it drops below the configured value. This allows watching the HDTV + demo loop on ASTRA HD forever. This feature can be enabled on + demand in vdr-xine's setup menu, as it might be a performance issue + on less powerful machines. +- As VDR-1.2.6 lacks c*Repackers, the above changes to buffering do + not work that precisely with this old VDR version. Just increase + the buffer values a bit as necessary. +- Fixed an out of range access in OSD scaling code by clipping away + negative coordinate areas. The segfault was triggered by opening + the audio track menu on channels with at least 20 tracks while + VDRs default skins where selected. +- Patched xine to speed up OSD operation when switching audio tracks + in live TV mode or when showing still frames (e. g. when editing + cutting marks). This change most likely breaks binary compatibilty + to other xine plugins. +- Failed to speed up OSD operation in trick speed modes: it would + require to copy each frame at least while OSD is active, which + might be a performance issue. So for now, the worst timing for a + single OSD operation is about 2500 ms in VDR's first slow reverse + mode. A possible solution might be X11 OSD overlay, as it is + independent of the video frame, so there is no copying involved. + But that's still to investigate. +- Implemented OSD scaling in regard to xine's video zoom factor. The + OSD will now be scaled accordingly for zoom factors > 100 %. As + determining the zoom factors is an "expensive" operation in xine, + they are only retrieved when some drawing to the OSD is happening. + So you won't see an open OSD to immediately change it's size. +- Fixed a segfault in SHQ OSD scaling code by setting the allocated + memory to 0. +- Updated INSTALL to mention a workaround for xine CVS access, as + cvs.sourceforge.net was quite unreliable recently. +- Fixed compilation for VDR version 1.2.6 which was only possible by + dropping auto primary device feature for VDR versions < 1.3.32. +- Updated MANUAL accordingly. + +2006-02-14: Version 0.7.7 + +- Updated MANUAL (thanks to Ville Skyttä for supplying the patch). +- Added Dutch translation (thanks to Maarten Wisse for supplying the + patch). +- Fixed auto primary device functionality concerning ActualDevice + (thanks to Luca Olivetti for reporting this issue). +- Shutting down cOsdProvider when vdr-xine is nolonger primary device + to fix an issue where the new primary device doesn't register it's + own cOsdProvider instance. +- Fixed cXineDevice::SetDigitalAudioDevice() for radio channels with + multiple audio tracks (e. g. RADIO INT2). These tracks are not + related to each other and therefore syncing these tracks by PTS is + impossible and causes huge delays otherwise. +- Adopted cXineDevice::GrabImage() to VDR-1.3.38 (based on a patch of + Darren Salt). +- Fixed some issues with FIFO_DIR containing spaces (thanks to Darren + Salt for supplying the patch). +- Fixed some warnings about strict-aliasing issues when compiling with + gcc-4.1 (thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting this issue). +- Added two new command line arguments (-X / -Y) to change the default + image size for GrabImage(). Internally, they are predefined as + -X 720 and -Y 576. +- Dropped the Audio-Mode setup option for VDR >= 1.3.18 as VDR's audio + menu and PlayPes() took over sending just a single audio stream to + the output device. +- Fixed implementation of cXineDevice::Clear(), which speeds up jumping + back and forth in recordings. A stresstest showed that from time to + time a deadlock happened in libasound (ALSA) when xine is opening the + audio device. You may experience a problem too if you stay on the + GREEN button at the beginning of a recording. On my system it caused + segfaults, asserts and deadlocks while xine is opening the ALSA + audio device. I'd be glad if someone could fix this issue. + Anyway, I hope that this change partitially fixes the delay on some + systems which happened when switching to trickspeed modes while + replaying a recording. +- Added support for VDR's new info key. +- Tried to get xine's ffmpeg decoder to work with vdr-xine, but failed. +- Had xine CVS take over a couple of my xine patches. +- Tuned xine-lib's startcode scanner in libmpeg2. +- Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.3.41 changed detection of transfer mode. +- Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.3.42 changed cDevice::PlayAudio(). +- Replaced noSignal*.pes with noSignal*.mpg. vdr-xine will complain + about a missing noSignal.mpg. Just copy the new files from the source + directory to the mentioned location as mentioned in INSTALL. +- Changed buffering completely. When VDR switches to a channel, xine + starts replaying at 12.5 % of normal speed. Then vdr-xine monitors + the stream's PTS values and compares them to the value which xine + reports. The difference between VDR's and xine's value makes up the + currently gained buffer. When the buffer reaches the configured size + then xine switches to 100 % speed. + ATTENTION: this change requires you to reduce the configured + prebuffer in vdr-xine's setup page to about 8 frames! +- Updated MANUAL and INSTALL accordingly. + +2005-09-11: Version 0.7.6 + +- Fixed vdr-xine to update xine's audio stream bitrate and decoder + after xine has connected to vdr-xine. Before that, xine showed + the information of the NOSIGNAL stream. +- Several MPEG1 related fixes. +- Several fixes concerning playing of externally generated VDR + recordings (thanks to Fabian Wolter for supplying a recording). +- Fixed compilation for VDR-1.3.32. +- Playing a still image could make vdr-xine wait for further video + packets (this issue showed up from time to time when using the + vdr-radio plugin). + +2005-08-14: Version 0.7.5 + +- Added documentation about gxine's VDR support to MANUAL (thanks to + Darren Salt for supplying the patch). +- Fixed xine-plugin to update audio stream bitrate and decoder. +- Removed singleton enforcement of xine-plugin as it caused problems + with xine's post plugin management (suggested by Darren Salt). +- Added support to select left / right audio channel by audio post + plugin 'vdr_audio'. +- Added audio post plugin support to xine-ui and fbxine which was needed + for the new audio post plugin vdr_audio. +- Renamed video post plugin 'vdr' to 'vdr_video' to match naming scheme, + but it also registered as 'vdr' to maintain compatibility. +- Created audio post plugin 'upmix_mono' to turn a mono stream into a + stereo one with identical data on both sides (requested by Lucian + Muresan). +- Fixed some endianness problems in OSD code (thanks to Carsten + Rietzschel for reporting this issue). +- Fixed some compiler warnings with gcc-4.0.1 and gcc-4.1 (thanks to + Eric OUEDRAOGO for reporting this issue). +- Updated plugin to match interface changes in VDR-1.3.27 (thanks to + C.Y.M for reporting this issue). +- Fixed implementation of cDevice::Clear() which didn't ensure that + really all data (i. e. the data which is just in the FIFO or socket) + get's cleared. This might improve switching to trickspeed mode. +- Updated MANUAL about using vdr_audio post plugin. + +2005-05-08: Version 0.7.4 + +- Fixed compilation issue with gcc-4.1 (thanks to ollo at vdr-portal for + reporting this issue). +- Fixed audio output when used with muggle (thanks to Der_Olli at + vdr-portal for testing). +- Fixed input_vdr for proper "C" coding (thanks to Philip Lawatsch for + reporting this issue). +- Increased xine-lib's demux_mpeg_pes.c's WRAP_THRESHOLD to 270000 to + fix detection of false discontinuities (thanks to Jouni Karvo for + reporting this issue). +- Fixed xine-lib's xxmc decoder to properly decode radio-plugin's + background images. +- Updated dvbplayer patch for VDR-1.3.24. + +2005-04-11: Version 0.7.3 + +- Started detection of AFD header in xine to automatically crop out the + interesting part of the image later. +- Adopted implementation of cXineDevice::SetDigitialAudioDevice() to + different calling order in VDR 1.3.23. +- Improved cXineDevice::SetDigitalAudioDevice() when replaying recordings. +- Added setup option to automatically make vdr-xine the primary device + while xine is connected to vdr-xine (requested by Der_Olli at vdr-portal). +- Added setup option to consider all semi transparent colors as opaque to + make the menu more readable. +- Added commandline option '-s' to switch to skin 'curses' while xine is + not connected to vdr-xine (requested by Rantanen Teemu). +- Added commandline option '-q' to suppress debug messages (useful in + combination with option '-s'). +- Moved disconnect to cXineDevice::Stop() to get the new options to work. +- Fixed all (?) deadlock situations in RPC command processing (e. g. + stopping replay while switching a channel). +- Fixed deadlocks in vdr-xine's xread(). A possible drawback is that now + a disconnect might happen in such a case. +- Fixed VDR's I-frame processing which caused disconnects e. g. while + moving cut marks in HDTV recordings. vdr-1.2.23-dvbplayer3.patch is + highly recommended for proper operation of vdr-xine. +- Improved cXineDevice::StillImage() implementation to immediate display + the frame (improves moving cut marks). +- Fixed cXineDevice::StillImage() to work properly in combination with + the plugin vdr-radio. + BUG: xine's driver xxmc shows just a black screen on my EPIA MII-6000E. +- Reintroduced usleeps() in input_vdr.c for flush, OSD flush and reset + audio. sched_yield() simply caused to much CPU load while waiting + about 40 ms to reach the expected state. Improves number of dropped + frames when switching channels. +- Optimized OSD display: VDR's channel display repeatedly sends a dirty + OSD which doesn't differ from the previous one. Improves number of + dropped frames while switching channel. + BUG: it's still unclear whether this causes some OSD artefacts. +- Fixed demux_mpeg_pes' discontinuity detection. Previously, when a PTS + wrap happend, xine stopped replay for about 26.5 hours. +- vdr-xine now nolonger set's xine's metronom directly but tells it's + demuxer to do the job. Improves switching channels. +- Optimized implementation of cXineDevice::Clear() in input_vdr.c. + BUG: it may happen that xine's audio driver ALSA might get into a state + of "silence" where it doesn't recover from until you stop replaying the + recording. I still didn't find a way to reproduce this but it has to do + with trickspeed, pause, play, and probably cut marks. +- Fixed post_vdr.c to detect MRL changes for discovering streams sent from + VDR, e. g. when xine is not started with the MRL specified on it's + command line. + BUG: It's possible that xine crashes due to this detection. xine doesn't + allocate a different stream for a different MRL, but maybe other players + do. I'm not sure whether I managed to increase the streams usage counter + properly (by allocating an event queue) until I detect the new stream + respectively MRL. + BUG: post_vdr doesn't operate when xine's driver xxmc is used due to some + limitation/incomplete implementation in xine's plugin interface. +- Fixed xine's deinterlacer interface to take care of cropping. Previously + the OSD was resizing like mad e. g. between 1920x1080 and 1920x1088. +- Added support for VDR's new AUDIO key in xine (thanks to Darren Salt for + reporting this issue). + +2005-02-27: Version 0.7.2 + +- Fixed cXineDevice::StillPicture() to support three times larger still + image data than before. This was necessary to properly support mp3 + plugin's cover image feature (thanks to burki at vdr-portal for reporting + this issue). +- Removed cXineStatus as vdr-xine now uses a different method of detecting + LiveTV. This one works better in combination with mp3 plugin (thanks to + Klaus Schmidinger for suggesting the new solution). +- Updated xine-lib patch for current CVS (thanks to Grégoire Favre for + reporting this issue). + +2005-02-13: Version 0.7.1 + +- Updated finish translation (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for supplying the + update). +- Fixed a typo in checking for VDR versions before 1.3.18. This broke + successful compilation for versions between 1.3.8 and 1.3.18 (thanks to + Andreas Urban for reporting this issue). +- Fixed processing of cDevice::SetDigitalAudio() as it skipped displaying + of NO SIGNAL when switching channels. + +2005-01-29: Version 0.7.0 + +- Implemented centre-cut-out mode: this feature will crop away the black bars + around a 4:3 image which is broadcast in a 16:9 stream and is displayed on + a 4:3 monitor. See MANUAL how to enable this mode. +- Fixed OSD scaling for the case where xine cropped the image for displaying. +- Integrated patch for image grabbing. You can now specify the absolute path + of the utilities for grabbing an image. Furthermore, the patch fixes a + possible security issue when the filename for the GRAB command contained + special shell characters (thanks to Darren Salt for supplying the patch). +- Image grabbing now also requires pnmcut to support cropped images. +- Prepended VDR_XINE_ to Makefile variables FIFO_DIR and SET_VIDEO_WINDOW to + avoid collisions when vdr-xine's variables are set in VDR's Make.conf. +- Added syslog messages when VDR_XINE_FIFO_DIR or any fifo cannot be created. +- Added a further config option to vdr-xine's setup menu: you may now specify + how VDR's mute requests will be processed in xine: + a) ignore + b) simulate (set volume to 0 / restore volume) + c) execute +- Fixed xine part to update UI when volume / muting is changed. +- Updated INSTALL, MANUAL and xineI18n.h accordingly. + +2005-01-23: Version 0.6.5 + +- Adapted vdr-xine to the recent changes in VDR-1.3.19. +- With VDR-1.3.19, the HDTV patch for VDR is obsolete now. See the file + vdr-patches-README.txt on my homepage for details. + +2005-01-10: Version 0.6.4 + +- Adapted vdr-xine to the recent changes in VDR-1.3.18. The xine part has also + changed and therefore a rebuild of xine is required. +- With VDR-1.3.18 a lot of my patches for VDR are obsolete now. See the file + vdr-patches-README.txt on my homepage for details. +- Removed the necessity of changing POLLTIMEOUTS_BEFORE_DEVICECLEAR. +- Updated INSTALL appropriately. + +2004-12-31: Version 0.6.3 + +- Fixed uninitialized variable in xineRemote.c. Release 0.6.2 showed high CPU + load of XineRemote control thread when switching between channels with + different resolution. + +2004-12-30: Version 0.6.2 + +- Integrated i18n updates (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for supplying the patch). +- Fixed processing of MPEG1 streams. vdr-xine should now be able to work + together with vdr-analogtv. +- Fixed race-condition at shutdown when at client-disconnect vdr-xine accessed + the already destructed xineRemote. +- Fixed invalid pointer access in input_vdr.c (thanks to Darren Salt for + supplying the patch). +- Fixed some OSD update issues that happend when xine asked for an update and + VDR was drawing on the OSD at the same time. +- Prepared xine part for integration into xine-lib-1.0.x. +- Synced SPU processing. DVD subtitles should now nolonger be several seconds + ahead of their expected presentation time. +- Updated MANUAL to reflect name changes in xine's config file. + +2004-12-10: Version 0.6.1 + +- Added vdr-xine option "-i NUM" which can be used to get two or more vdr-xine + instances running on the same machine (in different VDR instances). The same + option is available as "--vdr-instance=NUM" to xineplayer but there it must + be the first argument to not conflict with any other options from mplayer. +- Fixed cXineDevice::StillPicture() to automatically add an PES video header + if the given data doesn't contain one. As a result vdr-streamdev-* is now + able to show an image while pausing Live-TV (thanks to Darren Salt for some + hints on optimized coding). +- Fixed some special cases of dolby audio processing introduced in 0.5.3 + (thanks to Markus Maierhofer for reporting this issue). +- Moved option OSD_SCALING_MODE and DONT_CHANGE_XINE_VOLUME from Makefile to + vdr-xine's setup. Therefore the same binary package can now be run on less + powerful machines too. +- Integrated a large piece of xine-lib.patch into xine-lib-cvs. As a result + the configure option --disable-exact-blending is gone and is now available + as runtime configureable option "video.disable_exact_osd_alpha_blending". +- Updated xineI18n.h. Feel free to supply updates for other languages too. +- Updated INSTALL and MANUAL accordingly. +- Introduced xineCommon.h to handle poisend VDR source. +- Prepared xineI18n.h for additional languages. +- Added a setup option for adjusting OSD gamma correction when OSD scaling + is necessary. +- Fixed xine part to no longer freeze when one connects to stale vdr-xine + FIFOs. +- Fixed xine part to immediately react on the "stop" button in case where + VDR doesn't send a stream to xine. +- The error message about missing noSignal.pes is now also logged via syslog + as there was otherwise no indicater found in the logfile why VDR terminated + that early. + +2004-11-02: Version 0.6.0 + +- Implemented playback of external sources. This is done using the well known + mplayer plugin in combination with my mplayer wrapper called "xineplayer". + Just setup mplayer plugin as it's documentation states. Then edit it's + "mplayer.sh" and replace "mplayer" by "xineplayer". xineplayer get's built + into vdr-xine's source directory. You'll have to copy it to a "bin" + directory which is part of your PATH or you might want to specifiy it's full + path in mplayer.sh. For this first release you'll have to select mplayer + plugin's "TRADITIONAL" mode to get it working with vdr-xine. +- Exact but CPU intensive OSD blending can now be disabled in xine-lib by + giving the configure switch "--disable-exact-blending" to "./autogen.sh". +- Fixed high CPU load of vdr-xine when xine was disconnected while a currently + replayed recording was paused. +- Removed DATA_DIR. "noSignal.pes" is now expected below VDR's config files + directory, i. e. .../plugins/xine/noSignal.pes. +- Added OSD scaling mode "auto SHQ" which automatically chooses SHQ mode for + low resolution streams (width < 360 respectively height < 288). This mode is + now the one which is preselected in Makefile. +- Updated INSTALL and MANUAL accordingly. + +2004-10-24: Version 0.5.3 + +*** NO NEED TO RECOMPILE xine-lib / xine-ui THIS TIME *** + +- Fixed dolby audio processing to get recordings (and former live stream) of + channel "ProSiebenHD" to play properly. +- Fixed extraction of PTS values (ignore PTS of value 0) resulting in better + prebuffering (thanks to Cristiano Bozzi for reporting this issue). +- Changed data processing to comply with VDR's new buffer handling since + release 1.3.13 (thanks to Klaus Schmidinger for assistance). +- Scrambled flag on PES packets is now cleared to not have xine terminate + playback due to bad reception quality respectively early data transmission + while device is still tuneing (thanks to mvdbeek at vdr-portal for reporting + this issue). +- Replaced all usleep() calls by cMutex / cCondVar substitutes. +- Added paragraph to INSTALL (BUILDING XINE) about required versions of + autoconf suite for building xine (requested by Frank99 at vdr-portal). + +2004-10-09: Version 0.5.2 + +- Fixed xine-lib/src/vdr/input_vdr.c for compliance with C coding. It should + now compile properly with gcc-2.95.3 (thanks to Jouni Karvo for reporting + this issue). +- Implemented cPlugin::CommandLineHelp() (suggested by ronnykornexl at + vdr-portal). +- Updated INSTALL and pointed to xine-cvs archives on my homepage. +- Updated INSTALL and documented "ERROR: remote control XineRemote not ready!" + which appears in VDR's logfile. +- Updated INSTALL and mentioned delay of about 10 seconds until VDR enters + "Phase 2" of remote learning mode after pressing a remote key in "Phase 1". +- Fixed compile error of xine-lib's video_out_xvmc.c which was caused by my + OSD patches (thanks to Kron at vdr-portal for reporting this issue). +- Fixed a buffer overrun in my patches to xine-lib which caused xine to die + occasionally when VDR's OSD was active and/or operated (thanks to Joerg + Knitter for intensively testing vdr-xine). +- Tried to create a patch for xine-lib that complains when applied to RC6 but + all rejects should only address the newly added driver xxmc. Therefore they + can simply be ignored. +- Currently, xine-ui.patch is empty but I didn't want to remove this file as + doing so might break some people's build scripts. + +2004-10-04: Version 0.5.1 + +- Updated documentation (thanks to Darren Salt for supplying the patch). +- OSD scaling is now using frame resolution instead of stream resolution. This + should make the OSD show up more often already at the right resoltion. For + almost immediate response to resolution changes it is required to run xine + with --post vdr. +- Completed implementation of cDevice::GrabImage() method. It now supports + xine's different image formats and honors the different aspect ratio of + 16:9 broadcasts. +- Added paragraph to INSTALL about additional programs which are needed to + successfully grab images. +- Added paragraph to INSTALL about remote learning mode. +- Synchronized OSD output. Hideing an OSD and grabing an image immediately + afterwards leaded to a snapshot which still showed the OSD. +- Probably fixed audio replay on channels with still video. Prebuffer time is + now extended dynamically by the difference between audio and video time + stamps on the channel in question. +- Fixed prebuffering after toggleing audio channel. +- Reorganized directory structure of the xine part once again. xine-ui now + needs the configure switch "--enable-vdr-keys" to support vdr-xine's remote. +- Improved OSD scaling which took over month to optimize. See Makefile for + OSD_SCALING_HQ. One might also choose OSD_SCALING_SHQ but be warned about + the CPU load it causes. +- xine-lib-1-RC6 should be sufficient for this release but my patches will + complain about the recently added driver xxmc. + +2004-08-08: Version 0.5.0 + +- Added paragraph to INSTALL about using the correct xine-config in Makefile + (suggested by Luca Olivetti). +- Fixed SEGV (in remote control code) which happend when VDR was exiting + (thanks to Mattias Grönlund for supplying the patch). +- Added a Makefile switch DONT_CHANGE_XINE_VOLUME to have vdr-xine never + change xine's volume control (e. g. when connecting xine to VDR), as this + might lead to (un)muting the wrong audio channels (requested by Jouni + Karvo). +- Fixed quickly switching between play / pause. There is still a lockup left + to be fixed that appears on some machines when jumping between cutting marks + (thanks to peter_weber69 at vdr-portal for testing the fix). +- Added video scaling by xine post plugin 'vdr' to support yaepg plugin. One + will have to add "--post vdr" to the command line or select the post plugin + via the user interface. As yaepg patches VDR, you'll have to tell vdr-xine + whether you want to support yaepg by enabling SET_VIDEO_WINDOW in Makefile. +- Looking forward to having the xine part integrated into CVS, the locations + of my plugins in xine-lib's source tree have changed. INSTALL was updated + to the new patch procedure. A current CVS source tree is required (can be + found on my home page, too). + +2004-07-25: Version 0.4.3 + +- Fixed xineI18n.h for compatibility with VDR-1.3.[01]. The Russian translation + entries were introduced with VDR-1.3.2 (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg). +- Implemented OSD scaling. Currently, the scaled OSD is of "bad" quality, but + as a start, it's better than nothing :-) +- Tried to fix the issues which were recently introduced by soft-start, but + it's likely that the fixes still don't work for less powerful machines. In + such a case, locate softStartCalcSpeed() in xineDevice.c and try differnt + methods (0..3). Please drop me a line on success respectively failure. + +2004-07-04: Version 0.4.2 + +- Integrated swedish translation supplied by Tomas Prybil. +- Fixed xineI18n.h for compatibility with VDR-1.3.6 (thanks to ronnykornexl at + vdr-portal for reporting this issue). +- Followed http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/MANUAL-DE#Patches for creating + respectively naming xine patches (thanks to ronnykornexl at vdr-portal). +- New feature for Live-TV mode: "soft-start" replays the stream in slow motion + while buffering. Useful for zapping, where you'll see an image of the current + program quite early. The stream speed starts now at 50 %, slows down to 25 % + and then speeds up to 100 %. This happens within the prebuffer time, so you + should increase it (e. g. to 50) if you experience problems. + +2004-06-27: Version 0.4.1 + +- Fixed audio handling of the previous release as it broke playing mp3s (thanks + to Jouni Karvo for reporting this issue). +- Fixed xine's linear PCM decoder to support more sample rates. Previously, mp3 + files did often play to fast. +- DVDs should play properly now, independent of the dolby setting. +- Disabled debug code. Please remove all /tmp/frame* files which might have + been created by release 0.4.0. +- Integrated remote control patch for fbxine (provided by Dirk Meyer), but I'm + still waiting for an example on how to bind the keys in fbxine. +- Added a section to MANUAL about xine's command line and useful options + (suggested by Jouni Karvo). +- VDR: Improved performance. Please apply the vdr-1.3.11 patches which are + available on my homepage. +- VDR: Fixed recording replay when reaching the end of a recording in + trickspeed mode. VDR switched to play mode instead of ending replay. + +2004-06-21: Version 0.4.0 + +- Integrated patch which implements cDevice::GetSPUDecoder() (thanks to Sven + Goethel for supplying the patch). +- Fixed INSTALL again for correct quoting (thanks to Johannes Schoeller for + reporting this issue). +- Updated xineI18n.h for now 18 languages in VDR 1.3.x (thanks to Achim + Tuffentsammer for the hint). +- Added a paragraph to INSTALL for users of full featured cards (suggested by + Tuomas Jormola). +- Rewrote INSTALL in various places, to contain much helpful information + discussed previously on the mailing list. +- Integrated patch for supplying xine the default MRL of VDR (thanks to Darren + Salt). +- Added cDevice::Flush() to work around xine's large buffers. +- xine-lib-1-rc5 should be sufficient to get the plugin working. +- Improved a lot regarding interoperability with plugin vdr-dvd. To make use + of these changes, you'll have to adjust your '.xine/config'. See MANUAL for + more information. +- It is recommended to enable dolby when using vdr-dvd. + +2004-05-27: Version 0.3.4 + +- Fixed INSTALL to suggest a correctly quoted 'runvdr' command for running the + plugin for the first time (thanks to peter_weber69 and anonymous (aka Ronny) + on VDR Portal for pointing this out). +- Fixed xineOsd.c to show OSD in initial remote key learning mode (thanks to + chris281080 on VDR Portal for determining this issue). +- Added a warning message to xineLib.c, in the case where 'noSignal.pes' can't + be opened, e. g. if DATA_DIR is not set correctly in Makefile. +- Fixed Makefile to use the default DATA_DIR, not my personal one. + +2004-05-22: Version 0.3.3 + +- Fixed input_plugin/input_vdr.c to return proper values for cDevice::GetSTC() + (thanks to Pekka Virtanen for supplying a test plugin). + +2004-05-22: Version 0.3.2 + +- Fixed xineRemote.c to be compatible with API of VDR 1.2.6. + +2004-05-21: Version 0.3.1 + +- Updated xine-lib.patch to support all VDR remote keys. +- Patch file renamed to xine.patch, as xine-ui is modified too. +- Updated INSTALL to reflect new patch file name and patching of xine-ui. +- Updated MANUAL to tell command line args and xine's keybindings. + +2004-05-21: Version 0.3.0 + +- Changed code sequence to follow the C language properly (reported by + Jouni Karvo). +- Updated Finnish translation and added empty Russian translations while + maintaining compatibility with VDR 1.2.x (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg). +- Dropped (later maybe configurable) sending MUTE to xine, as it's not + really necessary for normal operation of VDR (requested by Jouni Karvo). +- Fixed sending dolby audio to xine (requires up-to-date xine-lib CVS). +- Added support for VDR-1.3.7's new OSD interface. +- Integrated patch from Simon Truss to send keystrokes from xine to VDR + for controlling VDR from within xine. +- Enhanced compatibility of xine part to support xine's older API for + VIA-enhanced xine (thanks to Vincenzo Memeo). + +2004-05-05: Version 0.2.2 + +- Added define _GNU_SOURCE to Makefile (just like for new plugins). +- DATA_DIR in Makefile contained path of my system. +- OSD update in xine is now optimized to VDR's dirty OSD area. +- Implemented cDevice::GetSTC(). +- Removed some unnecessary PES packet requirements for trickspeed mode. +- Moved image conversion from xine to VDR for cDevice::GrabImage() + implementation. +- Added support for dolby audio (i. e. cDevice::PlayAudio(): untested due + to lack of hardware). +- Added configuration option to enable dolby audio (default: off). +- When xine connects to VDR, volume and muting are adjusted to fit VDR's + values. + +2004-04-23: Version 0.2.1 + +- Corrected some FIXMEs for certain recordings. +- Audio is now unmuted when leaving a recording in trickmode speed. + +2004-04-22: Version 0.2.0 + +- Added trickspeed mode. +- Added image grabbing (requires y4mscaler, y4mtoppm and pnmtojpeg). +- Added automatic selection of prebuffer mode. +- Dropped config option 'xine.modeReplay.prebufferFrames'. +- Dropped config option 'xine.usageModeDefault'. +- Dropped main menu entry. +- Partly integrated Makefile patch from Darren Salt. +- Fixed some stuff regarding latest CVS xine. + +2004-02-03: Version 0.1.2 + +- Fixed a compile error in xine +- Fixed a compile error in VDR + +2003-12-21: Version 0.1.1 + +- Changed version numbering for easier update recognition. +- Updated to latest xine API version number. +- Fixed VDR's high CPU load when no xine connected. +- Added Finnish translation supplied by Rolf Ahrenberg. +- Supplied a completely black 'noSignal.pes' to prevent the monitor from + damage while listening to radio stations for a long time. + +2003-12-17: Version 0.0.3 (aka 0.1.0) + +- Improved channel switching by using xine's prebuffering. +- Prebuffer settings configurable for Live-TV and Replay. +- Changed directories for plugin's files as suggested on ML. +- Supports xine's unscaled OSD (configurable). +- Shows a currently open OSD on connect with xine. +- Shows an OSD in remote key learning mode. +- Addresses some show stoppers due to recent xine changes. +- Supports i18n. + +2003-09-08: Version 0.0.2 + +- Minor fixes. +- Improved channel switching. +- Dropped dependencies to X11. + +2003-09-07: Version 0.0.1 + +- Initial release. + +2003-06-23: Version 0.0.0 + +- Announcement. + |