VDR Plugin Revision History

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17.06.2007: Version 0.10.0 (vdr 1.4.7 / 1.5.2)

- Fixed directory scaning in file browser if remembered directory has been

  removed meanwhile. Reported by Halim Sahin.

- Added processing of kNext/kPrev to skip songs. Patch provided by Peter Pinnau.

- Made subsampling mode selection for ppmtoy4m call in example image convert

  script backward compatible. Suggested by C.Y.M.

- Fixed a missing include in mplayer.c. Reported by Dirk Vornheder.

- Now closing all unused filedescriptors in MPlayer child thread. Suggested by

  Anssi Hannula.

- Now defaults to slavemode enabled in MPlayer plugin.

- Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.5.0+.

- Documentation updates.

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21.09.2006: Version 0.9.15 development (vdr 1.4.1-4)

- NOTE: This version has been tested with VDR 1.4.x only. It might be still

  compatible with VDR 1.2.x or 1.3.x, but this wasn't verified.

- In MPlayer filebrowser you can display a summary text file with key "0".

  Filename convention: video filename extended with ".summary", e.g.

  "somefile.avi" -> "somefile.avi.summary". Summary files are not shown in the

  browsers filelist. (was in 0.9.14 already, but was missing in history)

- Using ".txt" and ".nfo" as alternative extention for MPlayer summary file

  display. Suggested by Soeren Sonnenburg.

- Additionaly searching for a MPlayer summary file with the video filename

  extention stripped of (e.g. "somefile.summary").

- Added SVDR and service support to MP3 and MPlayer plugin. Based on a patches

  provided by Olivier Jacques and Holger Brunn.

- Added setup option to reverse title/artist display in MP3 plugin.

- Added support for basic HTTP authorization in MP3 streaming.

- Now passing correct name & path to VDR's status class during MPlayer playback.

- Added commandline option to specify a subdirectory to load sources file from.

  Suggested by Ronny Kornexl.

- Added commandline option to specify a directory for the global MPlayer resume

  file. Suggested by Ronny Kornexl.

- Added -S option to ppmtoy4m call in example image convert script. Suggested by

  Thorsten Gehrig.

- Replaced leftover usleep() calls. Thanks to Malte Schröder.

- Moved cleanup of ID3 cache to a seperate thread to prevent watchdog timeout.

  Suggested by Peter Holik.

- Fixed browser excludes taking effect only after the first directory change.

  Reported by Soeren Sonnenburg.

- Fixed parsing the filename from MPlayer output. Based on a fix from TomG.

- Fixed MPlayer volume changes. Take non-linear changes in VDR into account.

  Reported by Daniel Karsubka.

- Fixed delay when MPlayer process exits at EOF. Reported by Daniel Karsubka.

- Fixed MPlayer volumen handling for VDR 1.4.1-2. Note that the current code

  doesn't work with VDR 1.4.1 and 1.4.1-1.

- Fixed button translations with vdr 1.3.38+. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.

- Fixed some gcc 4.1 issues. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.

- Removed explizit libz dependency from Makefile. Suggested by Ville Skyttä.

- Updated Makefile according to changes in VDR 1.3.47 & 1.4.1.

- Updated finish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

08.01.2006: Version 0.9.14 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.38)

- Fixed VDR hanging for some seconds when skipping songs and fixed pause mode 

  freezing live background when using OSS output. Reported by Andy Grobb.

- Now muting DVB audio while using OSS output.

- Finaly restored the function of the back key (jumps directly to plugin main

  menu) (vdr >= 1.3.32 only). Thanks to Sascha Volkenandt for the hint.

- During MPlayer playback, the name of the current videofile is now parsed from

  the MPlayer output. If you're using some kind of playlist hack, the MPlayer

  plugin will now report the correct filename. Based on suggestions from Ronny

  Kornexl.

- Extended the example mplayer.sh file to show how a playlist can be passed to

  MPLayer.

- Fixed segfault in progress display with skincurses. Thanks to Pasi Juppo for

  reporting.

- Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.3.38.

31.07.2005: Version 0.9.13 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.24)

- Moved OSD position selection to plugin setup menu (as before this works for

  non-skined vdr <1.3.7 only).

- Removed DVD navigation from MPlayer slavemode.

- Added support for configurable keys (0-9) in MPlayer slavemode. The slave

  command can be entered in the plugin setup menu and is sent to MPlayer during

  playback if the key is pressed.

- Added support to display a summary file (plain ascii) in the MPlayer browser.

  If you are on a video file, press '0' to display the summary. The summary file

  has to be named like the video file but with ".summary" appended (e.g.

  video.mpeg -> video.mpeg.summary).

- New MP3 plugin setup option to keep the selection menu opened after selection.

  Suggested by Mikko Mäkinen.

- Fixed ringbuffer timeouts in network code.

- Fixed ID3 V2 tag handling. Unusual big tags caused the ID3 scanner to mark the

  file as bad. Now correctly skipping ID3 tags during playback too. Reported by

  Olaf Henkel.

- Prevent writing to a broken pipe in mplayer slave control. Reported by Gerhard

  Steiner.

- Fixed passing AID 0 to mplayer.sh. To allow MPlayer autoselect the audio

  stream, set AID to -1 (this can only be achieved by entering 0 and than

  pressing left).

- Improved creation of LPCM frames. Based on the changes in muggle 0.1.8.

- Updated french translations. Provided by Jerome Rousset.

17.03.2005: Version 0.9.12 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.22)

- Fixed background image convert hanging a long time and some other oddities.

- Now filtering image files in the song browser display.

- Extended include field in mp3sources.conf to allow multiple patterns seperated

  by '/' e.g. *.mp3/*.ogg/*.txt

- Enhanced image convert script for NTSC format. Thanks to Cym.

- Fixed list sorting for vdr versions before 1.3.15.

- Fixed MPlayer slavemode progress display reappearing on user requested close.

- Now explicitly setting C locale in example image convert script. Thanks to

  Tobias Grimm.

- Changed the location where cStatus::MsgReplaying is called. Helps to prevent a

  crash in graphlcd. In my opinion cControl API should be called from the

  foreground thread only. Reported by Wolfgang Fritz.

- Fixed a huge bunch of typos in the documentation. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.

- Updated finish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg & Ville Skyttä.

20.02.2005: Version 0.9.11 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.21)

- Now using propper readdir() to scan directory contents rather than the

  external find & sort tools.

- Added cover image display during MP3 replay. See the README on how this has

  to be configured. If you was using the old image patch, be aware that there

  are now new commandline options and that the layout of the cache directory

  has changed. Initial patch made by Eloy, currently maintained by Tobias Grimm

  for ctvdr-debian package.

06.02.2005: Version 0.9.10 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.20)

- Fixed MPlayer resume for filenames/directories containing whitespace

  characters.

- Fixed vdr 1.3.18+ compatibility with BROKEN_PCM=1.

- Fixed MP3 replay with vdr 1.3.19+. Thanks to Tobias Grimm.

- Fixed huge memory leak in song/decoder handling (approx 22kB/song). Thanks to

  the great valgrind tool.

- Fixed some mismatched new[]/delete calls.

- Reduced MP3 decoder memory footprint (stopped state, from 22k to 308).

- Fixed crashes on status display from background threads (e.g. connect to

  streamserver). An asyncronous status display was added.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

- Updated recommended library versions to libmad/libid3tag 0.15.1b and

  libsndfile 1.0.11.

- Updated patch for cdfs 0.5c. Correct tracksize for last audio track if a data

  track follows. Thanks to Merten Falk.

10.01.2005: Version 0.9.9 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.18)

- Added global MPlayer resume file. This is used if the directory of the video

  file is not writeable. The global resume file is located in the video

  directory.

- Added DVD navigation to MPlayer slavemode. Due to this some other functions

  have been moved to new keys. See MANUAL file.

- Added some glue for vdr 1.3.18.

- Fixed saving of MPlayer setup option "ResumeMode". You can select if you want

  "local/global" or "global only" resume files too.

- Fixed thread deadlock in playmanager and non-blocking libsndfile reader

  (appearently only with some pthread versions) and high cpu usage of

  background scan thread when using libsndfile decoder. Thanks to Tobias Grimm

  for debugging.

- Removed workarounds for broken PCM handling in firmware (PCM pause &

  samplerate changes). This requires DVB firmware 261d-rc6 or newer. If you

  prefer to use an older firmware, you can use the make commandline option

  BROKEN_PCM=1 to enable old behaviour.

- Fixed handling of sym-links in source base path and playlists.

- Fixed path generation for "wide" sym-links.

- Replaced non-reentrant glibc functions with reentrant versions.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

28.11.2004: Version 0.9.8 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.14)

- Added MPlayer audiostream selection. Audiostream is selected with the blue

  key in the MPlayer menu. The selected stream is passed to the mplayer.sh

  script as "AID x" where x is the stream number. For compatibility reasons the

  AID parameter is passed after the SLAVE parameter. Due to this, parameter

  positions aren't fixed any more. You have to implement a flexible parameter

  parsing in mplayer.sh. See the example file how this can be done. Based on a

  patch from VDR-Portal.

- Fixed segfault in shuffle code when adding a single song to the current

  playlist. Reported by Malte Schröder.

- Fixed segfault in network code (pthread_cancel). Reported by Malte Schröder.

- Fixed mounting/unmounting sources in MPlayer plugin. Reported by Guy Roussin.

- Fixed status display with open (classic) progress display for vdr 1.3.7+.

- Added russian translations (vdr >= 1.3.2). Provided by Vyacheslav Dikonov.

24.09.2004: Version 0.9.7 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)

- Added non-blocking reader thread to libsndfile decoder.

- Fixed backward skip and progress display. Reported by Burkhardt Petermann.

- Fixed some locking problems in play manager.

- Fixed handling of samplerate changes for DVB & OSS output.

13.09.2004: Version 0.9.6 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)

- Changed the way how the player maintains the ringbuffer to prevent audio

  dropouts while background scan is active.

- Increased player ringbuffer size and take care of ringbuffer contents when

  skipping forward.

- Prevent full file scan on MP3 decoder check.

- Flushing playlist on playback abort to unblock removable sources. This also

  prevents the background scanner to continue after playback was aborted.

- Removed a buffer-to-buffer copy in DVB output.

- Fixed several race conditions where the play manager could discard the

  currently played or scanned song.

- Added a patch for cdfs 0.5c to correct discid calculation (applies to cdfs

  2.4.20 as well).

07.09.2004: Version 0.9.5 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)

- Resolved several oddities in progress display if the player is idle.

- Now removing trailing '/' from source definitions in *sources.conf and warn

  the user about this.

- Outdated entries in the MPlayer resume file are removed now.

- Fixed playback start delay in case the background scanner is working on the

  current song.

- Fixed progress display for net streams. Reported by Wolfgang Fritz.

- Fixed MPlayer rewind button (broken by sources fix in 0.9.4). Reported by

  Sebastian Kemper.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

- Added a patch that prevents the VDR core from aborting the MP3 player in

  black background mode (see patches subdirectory).

03.09.2004: Version 0.9.4 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)

- Added a queue manager. During playback you can add new songs to the playlist

  by selecting them from the MP3 menu/browser. To flush the playlist you have

  to stop the player for now. You can add new songs even if the player is kept

  idle (see below).

- Replaced setup option "mute at end of list" with "abort player at end of

  list". If you set this option to "no" and the end of playlist is reached, the

  player is kept idle. To restart playback select a song to restart from there

  or "up" to restart from the begining.

- Background scan (formerly known as ID3 prescan) now also can determine the

  song level. Note that level scan requires to decode the complete song. This is

  done on a seperate thread with nice 5 but nevertheless it needs CPU cycles. If

  your system crawls, you can set background scan to "ID3 only" in the plugin

  setup menu.

- Added commanline option -C to specify the directory to place the id3cache

  file. The default is to place the file into the video directory.

- MPlayer resume feature can now be disabled in the plugin setup menu. No resume

  file is created in this case.

- Another fix to the OSS output. Now using little-endian samples only (which

  should be supported by all soundcard drivers).

- Fixed mounting/unmounting of MPlayer sources (Bug introduced in 0.9.2). Thanks

  to Bill Blough for spotting this one.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

03.07.2004: Version 0.9.3 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.11)

- If a (single) selected file in the MP3 browser is actualy a playlist (*.m3u),

  load the playlist rather than trying to play the file. This allows to have

  playlists in subdirectories (by now only selectable from the browser not from

  the main menu). Note that song paths must be either absolute or relative to

  the location of the playlist file. Suggested by Helmut Auer.

- Now returning replay mode information in MP3 replay. Suggested by Sascha

  Volkenandt.

- Now paying attention to values returned by OSS ioctl's. This fixes playback

  for sound drivers which doesn't support big-endian samples. Thanks to

  Antti-Pekka Liedes for reporting and testing the fix.

- Added setup option to hide the mainmenu entry.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

- Fixed VDR 1.2.x compile issues.

- Fixed crash on status message display while the classic replay display is

  open.

24.06.2004: Version 0.9.2 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.11)

- Added a setup option to toggle MP3 replay display between classic and skin

  version. Note that the big playlist display isn't available in skin mode.

- Added rewind button to MPlayer menu. Suggested by Sebastian Kemper.

- Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

- Fixed current play time calculation for MPlayer without slave-patch.

  Reported by Uwe Scheffler.

- Fixed status messages which were displayed for ever. Reported by Sascha

  Volkenandt.

05.06.2004: Version 0.9.1 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.9)

- Added finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.

- Adapted to the changes in VDR 1.3.7+. Based on patches provided by Sascha

  Volkenandt & Sven Goethel.

- Fixed long standing bug in ID3 tag parsing, when the file contains an

  incomplete ID3 tag at the end of file. Thanks to Matt Tovey for debugging.

- Better german translations. Suggested by Andreas Brachold.

- Now ignoring dot-files in file browser. Suggested by Patrick Cernko.

- Now showing total play time in MPlayer progress display. The value may be

  inaccurate. Suggested by Patrick Cernko.

- Added resume capability for MPlayer. The resume position is stored in a file

  called ".mplayer.resume" in the directory of the MPlayer file. Based on a

  patch provided by Patrick Cernko.

- Added a setup option to mute audio at end of playlist. Based on a patch

  provided by Christoph Gohle.

- Now accepting absolute paths in playlists, even though the path must point to

  somewhere inside the defined source directory. Suggested by Niklaus Stutz.

08.05.2004: Version 0.9.0 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.1)

- Added OSS soundcard output. Use make option WITH_OSS_OUTPUT=1 to compile

  support, commandline option -D to change DSP device and plugin setup menu to

  select output mode. Thanks to Gunnar Roth.

- Added shoutcast/icecast metadata parsing. Thanks to Andreas Brachold.

- Now restoring locale settings in MPlayer plugin.

- Fixed MPlayer exit problem while paused.

- Fixed showing outdated song name shortly after start of a new song.

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16.01.2004: Version 0.8.3 (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.1)

- Fixed shutting down network connection (race condition).

- Added a pointer to Juri's mplayer.sh in the README.

- Fixed compilation problem with VDR 1.3.x and Beauty-Patch.

16.11.2003: Version 0.8.2 (vdr 1.2.6)

- Fixed quoting special shell characters when calling MPlayer.

- Now sending a "quit" to MPlayer when in slave mode rather than killing the

  process.

- Updated recommended library versions to libmad/libid3tag 0.15.0b and

  libsndfile 1.0.5.

08.08.2003: Version 0.8.1 (vdr 1.2.2)

- Fixed network code for DOS-style \r\n (Thanks to Roland Praml).

01.06.2003: Version 0.8.0 (vdr 1.2.0)

- Fixed thread cancelation in network code (valgrind hits).

- Stable release 0.8.0.

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25.05.2003: Version 0.7.15 plugin development (vdr 1.1.33)

- Adapted to the changes in vdr 1.1.33.

- Corrected the README about the fact that the plugins require vdr 1.1.29+.

- Added Spanish & Catalan translations. Thanks to Ramon Roca.

18.05.2003: Version 0.7.14 plugin development (vdr 1.1.32)

- Fixed ringbuffer handling for changes in vdr 1.1.31/32.

- MPlayer progressbar can be moved up/down now. Use keys 6/9 while the

  progressbar is displayed.

- Added Swedish translations. Thanks to Jan Ekholm.

27.04.2003: Version 0.7.13 plugin development (vdr 1.1.29)

- Fixed compile error due to changes in vdr 1.1.29.

- Fixed VDR version check.

18.04.2003: Version 0.7.12 plugin development (vdr 1.1.27)

- Added support for MPlayers slave commands "get_percent_pos" &

  "get_time_length". Gives better results for the progressbar. The slavemode

  patch for MPlayer is still needed as not all video formats provide

  information through these slave commands.

- Fixed s/ms mixup in remote CDDB connect.

- Fixed possible deadlock-race in mp3 & snd decoder.

- Added OggVorbis decoder. libvorbis & libvorbisfile needed.

- Updated French translations. Thanks to Pierre-Henri Beguin.

- Added VDR version check.

27.03.2003: Version 0.7.11 plugin development (vdr 1.1.26)

- Fixed MPlayer AudioDelay(). Thanks to Sven Goethel.

- Fixed MPlayer key repeat. Thanks to Reinhard Walter Buchner.

- Added yellow/green key to MPlayer control to skip back/forward a minute.

  Key assignment may change in future for these keys.

- Fixed Makefile for DVB includes.

- Fixed creation of cMPlayerStatus according to the rules.

- Fixed pipe reading and parse code. Caused all kind of weird behaviour.

- Some changes to the MPlayer pipe handling.

- Changed the network ringbuffer handling. You should use VDR version 1.1.25+

  or you may suffer from high cpu load during network streaming.

- Added a console message if a plugin fails to start due to a missing

  sources.conf.

03.02.2003: Version 0.7.10 plugin development (vdr 1.1.23)

- Added patches for MPlayer 0.90rc1 (contributed by Beppe on the VDR ML).

- Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.1.22.

- Removed speed drift detection. Makes not much sense with HEAD driver, as this

  supports non-48kHz modes anyways.

18.12.2002: Version 0.7.9 plugin development (vdr 1.1.20)

- Added commandline option to specify a script which is called before & after

  network access (e.g. for dial-up networking) (suggested by Matthias Raus).

- Fixed playback speed check for (partly) corrupted files.

- Fixed blocking frontend thread during possibly slow playback startup.

- Added support for shoutcast/icecast streams. See MANUAL for URL file format

  and setup menu options.

24.11.2002: Version 0.7.8 plugin development (vdr 1.1.16)

- Speed up local CDDB database search with huge databases. Due to this, only

  one subdirectory level is allowed in the database directory (usually the

  category name). This follows the common xmcd database layout.

- Added code for remote CDDB lookups. cddb.sh script is no longer needed. Please

  note, that the commandline options have changed.

- Added some status output while scanning/loading playlists to inform the user.

13.11.2002: Version 0.7.7 plugin development (vdr 1.1.16)

- Updated Makefile to support Make.config.

- Removed a deadlock together with the rt-patch.

- Added support for the new remote keys (play,pause,fastfwd/rwd).

06.10.2002: Version 0.7.6 plugin development (vdr 1.1.12)

- Removed a class name conflict (cSource) introduced with the changes in

  vdr 1.1.12.

- Added a field to the sources.conf files to specify which kind of files should

  be used on a source (see mp3sources.conf.example).

06.09.2002: Version 0.7.5 plugin development (vdr 1.1.8)

- Fixed bug in new status string code, which crashed VDR if a song without

  artist tag was played.

- Fixed parsing error of MPlayer output in slavemode if "C" is not the current

  locale.

- Fixed jump to minute in MPlayer slavemode.

- If you have installed the "replay mode beauty patch" the new symbols are used

  for MPlayer progressbar too. This feature is auto-detected in the Makefile.

01.09.2002: Version 0.7.4 plugin development (vdr 1.1.8)

- Changed the status string to show the loop/shuffle state too.

- Fixed replay problem with background mode "black". With vdr 1.1.8 you must

  apply the included patch to the base source.

- Changed the way mplayer.sh is called. Now it shouldn't be necessary to give

  the full path to the script if the script is in the current PATH.

- Added MANUAL a file.

- New setup option SlaveMode for MPlayer. With SlaveMode enabled you can

  control MPlayer via VDR. A progress display is available too. See MANUAL for

  details (thanks to Dariush Forouher).

23.08.2002: Version 0.7.3 plugin development (vdr 1.1.7)

- Now using libsndfile 1.x.x. You must update you system. The plugin won't

  compile with version 0.0.x.

- Fixed detection if MPlayer is still running.

- Fixed GetIndex() to return frames rather than seconds (thanks to Martin

  Hammerschmidt).

- The last second of the last song in a playlist wasn't played. Now waiting

  until the ringbuffer is really empty.

16.08.2002: Version 0.7.2 plugin development (vdr 1.1.7)

- Fixed gcc 2.96 compiling error due to variable name "not".

- Fixed a undefined symbol error when compiling without libsndfile.

- Fixed a deadlock in the MP3 player.

- Removed old stale LCD code parts.

- Now using free() on all strings.

- Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.1.7.

11.08.2002: Version 0.7.1 plugin development (vdr 1.1.6)

- Added some calls to the status monitor.

- Fixed internationalization (thanks to David Spiller).

- Fixed jump to the next song at the end of current song (thanks to David

  Spiller).

- Replaced all busy usleep wait loops with proper condition variables.

- Removed one thread level in the MPlayer plugin.

08.08.2002: Version 0.7.0 plugin development (vdr 1.1.6)

- Updated the source base to release version 0.6.2.

- Added MPlayer plugin.

- MP3 playback now functionaly.

13.05.2002: Version 0.0.2 plugin development (vdr 1.1.2)

- Added setup menu page and saving of setup options.

- Adding to playlist and playlist rename now functional. Beside playback all

  menus are (better should be) working.

- Now using confdir/plugins/mp3sources.conf for sources config.

10.05.2002: Version 0.0.1 plugin development (vdr 1.1.1)

- Initial revision.