1 VDR Plugin Revision History
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4 ..2007: Version 0.10.2 (vdr 1.4.7 / 1.5.11)
5 - Fixed a segfault while direct song selection. Thanks to Halim Sahin for
7 - Fixed some gcc 4.x warnings.
8 - Removed line number references from *.po files.
9 - Added italian translations.
11 27.08.2007: Version 0.10.1 (vdr 1.4.7 / 1.5.9)
12 - Fixed segfault in MP3 infocache purge on plugin exit.
13 - Added support for VDR 1.5.7+ gettext internationalization.
15 17.06.2007: Version 0.10.0 (vdr 1.4.7 / 1.5.2)
16 - Fixed directory scaning in file browser if remembered directory has been
17 removed meanwhile. Reported by Halim Sahin.
18 - Added processing of kNext/kPrev to skip songs. Patch provided by Peter Pinnau.
19 - Made subsampling mode selection for ppmtoy4m call in example image convert
20 script backward compatible. Suggested by C.Y.M.
21 - Fixed a missing include in mplayer.c. Reported by Dirk Vornheder.
22 - Now closing all unused filedescriptors in MPlayer child thread. Suggested by
24 - Now defaults to slavemode enabled in MPlayer plugin.
25 - Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.5.0+.
26 - Documentation updates.
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30 21.09.2006: Version 0.9.15 development (vdr 1.4.1-4)
31 - NOTE: This version has been tested with VDR 1.4.x only. It might be still
32 compatible with VDR 1.2.x or 1.3.x, but this wasn't verified.
33 - In MPlayer filebrowser you can display a summary text file with key "0".
34 Filename convention: video filename extended with ".summary", e.g.
35 "somefile.avi" -> "somefile.avi.summary". Summary files are not shown in the
36 browsers filelist. (was in 0.9.14 already, but was missing in history)
37 - Using ".txt" and ".nfo" as alternative extention for MPlayer summary file
38 display. Suggested by Soeren Sonnenburg.
39 - Additionaly searching for a MPlayer summary file with the video filename
40 extention stripped of (e.g. "somefile.summary").
41 - Added SVDR and service support to MP3 and MPlayer plugin. Based on a patches
42 provided by Olivier Jacques and Holger Brunn.
43 - Added setup option to reverse title/artist display in MP3 plugin.
44 - Added support for basic HTTP authorization in MP3 streaming.
45 - Now passing correct name & path to VDR's status class during MPlayer playback.
46 - Added commandline option to specify a subdirectory to load sources file from.
47 Suggested by Ronny Kornexl.
48 - Added commandline option to specify a directory for the global MPlayer resume
49 file. Suggested by Ronny Kornexl.
50 - Added -S option to ppmtoy4m call in example image convert script. Suggested by
52 - Replaced leftover usleep() calls. Thanks to Malte Schröder.
53 - Moved cleanup of ID3 cache to a seperate thread to prevent watchdog timeout.
54 Suggested by Peter Holik.
55 - Fixed browser excludes taking effect only after the first directory change.
56 Reported by Soeren Sonnenburg.
57 - Fixed parsing the filename from MPlayer output. Based on a fix from TomG.
58 - Fixed MPlayer volume changes. Take non-linear changes in VDR into account.
59 Reported by Daniel Karsubka.
60 - Fixed delay when MPlayer process exits at EOF. Reported by Daniel Karsubka.
61 - Fixed MPlayer volumen handling for VDR 1.4.1-2. Note that the current code
62 doesn't work with VDR 1.4.1 and 1.4.1-1.
63 - Fixed button translations with vdr 1.3.38+. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.
64 - Fixed some gcc 4.1 issues. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.
65 - Removed explizit libz dependency from Makefile. Suggested by Ville Skyttä.
66 - Updated Makefile according to changes in VDR 1.3.47 & 1.4.1.
67 - Updated finish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
69 08.01.2006: Version 0.9.14 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.38)
70 - Fixed VDR hanging for some seconds when skipping songs and fixed pause mode
71 freezing live background when using OSS output. Reported by Andy Grobb.
72 - Now muting DVB audio while using OSS output.
73 - Finaly restored the function of the back key (jumps directly to plugin main
74 menu) (vdr >= 1.3.32 only). Thanks to Sascha Volkenandt for the hint.
75 - During MPlayer playback, the name of the current videofile is now parsed from
76 the MPlayer output. If you're using some kind of playlist hack, the MPlayer
77 plugin will now report the correct filename. Based on suggestions from Ronny
79 - Extended the example mplayer.sh file to show how a playlist can be passed to
81 - Fixed segfault in progress display with skincurses. Thanks to Pasi Juppo for
83 - Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.3.38.
85 31.07.2005: Version 0.9.13 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.24)
86 - Moved OSD position selection to plugin setup menu (as before this works for
87 non-skined vdr <1.3.7 only).
88 - Removed DVD navigation from MPlayer slavemode.
89 - Added support for configurable keys (0-9) in MPlayer slavemode. The slave
90 command can be entered in the plugin setup menu and is sent to MPlayer during
91 playback if the key is pressed.
92 - Added support to display a summary file (plain ascii) in the MPlayer browser.
93 If you are on a video file, press '0' to display the summary. The summary file
94 has to be named like the video file but with ".summary" appended (e.g.
95 video.mpeg -> video.mpeg.summary).
96 - New MP3 plugin setup option to keep the selection menu opened after selection.
97 Suggested by Mikko Mäkinen.
98 - Fixed ringbuffer timeouts in network code.
99 - Fixed ID3 V2 tag handling. Unusual big tags caused the ID3 scanner to mark the
100 file as bad. Now correctly skipping ID3 tags during playback too. Reported by
102 - Prevent writing to a broken pipe in mplayer slave control. Reported by Gerhard
104 - Fixed passing AID 0 to mplayer.sh. To allow MPlayer autoselect the audio
105 stream, set AID to -1 (this can only be achieved by entering 0 and than
107 - Improved creation of LPCM frames. Based on the changes in muggle 0.1.8.
108 - Updated french translations. Provided by Jerome Rousset.
110 17.03.2005: Version 0.9.12 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.22)
111 - Fixed background image convert hanging a long time and some other oddities.
112 - Now filtering image files in the song browser display.
113 - Extended include field in mp3sources.conf to allow multiple patterns seperated
114 by '/' e.g. *.mp3/*.ogg/*.txt
115 - Enhanced image convert script for NTSC format. Thanks to Cym.
116 - Fixed list sorting for vdr versions before 1.3.15.
117 - Fixed MPlayer slavemode progress display reappearing on user requested close.
118 - Now explicitly setting C locale in example image convert script. Thanks to
120 - Changed the location where cStatus::MsgReplaying is called. Helps to prevent a
121 crash in graphlcd. In my opinion cControl API should be called from the
122 foreground thread only. Reported by Wolfgang Fritz.
123 - Fixed a huge bunch of typos in the documentation. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.
124 - Updated finish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg & Ville Skyttä.
126 20.02.2005: Version 0.9.11 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.21)
127 - Now using propper readdir() to scan directory contents rather than the
128 external find & sort tools.
129 - Added cover image display during MP3 replay. See the README on how this has
130 to be configured. If you was using the old image patch, be aware that there
131 are now new commandline options and that the layout of the cache directory
132 has changed. Initial patch made by Eloy, currently maintained by Tobias Grimm
133 for ctvdr-debian package.
135 06.02.2005: Version 0.9.10 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.20)
136 - Fixed MPlayer resume for filenames/directories containing whitespace
138 - Fixed vdr 1.3.18+ compatibility with BROKEN_PCM=1.
139 - Fixed MP3 replay with vdr 1.3.19+. Thanks to Tobias Grimm.
140 - Fixed huge memory leak in song/decoder handling (approx 22kB/song). Thanks to
141 the great valgrind tool.
142 - Fixed some mismatched new[]/delete calls.
143 - Reduced MP3 decoder memory footprint (stopped state, from 22k to 308).
144 - Fixed crashes on status display from background threads (e.g. connect to
145 streamserver). An asyncronous status display was added.
146 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
147 - Updated recommended library versions to libmad/libid3tag 0.15.1b and
149 - Updated patch for cdfs 0.5c. Correct tracksize for last audio track if a data
150 track follows. Thanks to Merten Falk.
152 10.01.2005: Version 0.9.9 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.18)
153 - Added global MPlayer resume file. This is used if the directory of the video
154 file is not writeable. The global resume file is located in the video
156 - Added DVD navigation to MPlayer slavemode. Due to this some other functions
157 have been moved to new keys. See MANUAL file.
158 - Added some glue for vdr 1.3.18.
159 - Fixed saving of MPlayer setup option "ResumeMode". You can select if you want
160 "local/global" or "global only" resume files too.
161 - Fixed thread deadlock in playmanager and non-blocking libsndfile reader
162 (appearently only with some pthread versions) and high cpu usage of
163 background scan thread when using libsndfile decoder. Thanks to Tobias Grimm
165 - Removed workarounds for broken PCM handling in firmware (PCM pause &
166 samplerate changes). This requires DVB firmware 261d-rc6 or newer. If you
167 prefer to use an older firmware, you can use the make commandline option
168 BROKEN_PCM=1 to enable old behaviour.
169 - Fixed handling of sym-links in source base path and playlists.
170 - Fixed path generation for "wide" sym-links.
171 - Replaced non-reentrant glibc functions with reentrant versions.
172 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
174 28.11.2004: Version 0.9.8 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.14)
175 - Added MPlayer audiostream selection. Audiostream is selected with the blue
176 key in the MPlayer menu. The selected stream is passed to the mplayer.sh
177 script as "AID x" where x is the stream number. For compatibility reasons the
178 AID parameter is passed after the SLAVE parameter. Due to this, parameter
179 positions aren't fixed any more. You have to implement a flexible parameter
180 parsing in mplayer.sh. See the example file how this can be done. Based on a
181 patch from VDR-Portal.
182 - Fixed segfault in shuffle code when adding a single song to the current
183 playlist. Reported by Malte Schröder.
184 - Fixed segfault in network code (pthread_cancel). Reported by Malte Schröder.
185 - Fixed mounting/unmounting sources in MPlayer plugin. Reported by Guy Roussin.
186 - Fixed status display with open (classic) progress display for vdr 1.3.7+.
187 - Added russian translations (vdr >= 1.3.2). Provided by Vyacheslav Dikonov.
189 24.09.2004: Version 0.9.7 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)
190 - Added non-blocking reader thread to libsndfile decoder.
191 - Fixed backward skip and progress display. Reported by Burkhardt Petermann.
192 - Fixed some locking problems in play manager.
193 - Fixed handling of samplerate changes for DVB & OSS output.
195 13.09.2004: Version 0.9.6 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)
196 - Changed the way how the player maintains the ringbuffer to prevent audio
197 dropouts while background scan is active.
198 - Increased player ringbuffer size and take care of ringbuffer contents when
200 - Prevent full file scan on MP3 decoder check.
201 - Flushing playlist on playback abort to unblock removable sources. This also
202 prevents the background scanner to continue after playback was aborted.
203 - Removed a buffer-to-buffer copy in DVB output.
204 - Fixed several race conditions where the play manager could discard the
205 currently played or scanned song.
206 - Added a patch for cdfs 0.5c to correct discid calculation (applies to cdfs
209 07.09.2004: Version 0.9.5 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)
210 - Resolved several oddities in progress display if the player is idle.
211 - Now removing trailing '/' from source definitions in *sources.conf and warn
213 - Outdated entries in the MPlayer resume file are removed now.
214 - Fixed playback start delay in case the background scanner is working on the
216 - Fixed progress display for net streams. Reported by Wolfgang Fritz.
217 - Fixed MPlayer rewind button (broken by sources fix in 0.9.4). Reported by
219 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
220 - Added a patch that prevents the VDR core from aborting the MP3 player in
221 black background mode (see patches subdirectory).
223 03.09.2004: Version 0.9.4 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.12)
224 - Added a queue manager. During playback you can add new songs to the playlist
225 by selecting them from the MP3 menu/browser. To flush the playlist you have
226 to stop the player for now. You can add new songs even if the player is kept
228 - Replaced setup option "mute at end of list" with "abort player at end of
229 list". If you set this option to "no" and the end of playlist is reached, the
230 player is kept idle. To restart playback select a song to restart from there
231 or "up" to restart from the begining.
232 - Background scan (formerly known as ID3 prescan) now also can determine the
233 song level. Note that level scan requires to decode the complete song. This is
234 done on a seperate thread with nice 5 but nevertheless it needs CPU cycles. If
235 your system crawls, you can set background scan to "ID3 only" in the plugin
237 - Added commanline option -C to specify the directory to place the id3cache
238 file. The default is to place the file into the video directory.
239 - MPlayer resume feature can now be disabled in the plugin setup menu. No resume
240 file is created in this case.
241 - Another fix to the OSS output. Now using little-endian samples only (which
242 should be supported by all soundcard drivers).
243 - Fixed mounting/unmounting of MPlayer sources (Bug introduced in 0.9.2). Thanks
244 to Bill Blough for spotting this one.
245 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
247 03.07.2004: Version 0.9.3 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.11)
248 - If a (single) selected file in the MP3 browser is actualy a playlist (*.m3u),
249 load the playlist rather than trying to play the file. This allows to have
250 playlists in subdirectories (by now only selectable from the browser not from
251 the main menu). Note that song paths must be either absolute or relative to
252 the location of the playlist file. Suggested by Helmut Auer.
253 - Now returning replay mode information in MP3 replay. Suggested by Sascha
255 - Now paying attention to values returned by OSS ioctl's. This fixes playback
256 for sound drivers which doesn't support big-endian samples. Thanks to
257 Antti-Pekka Liedes for reporting and testing the fix.
258 - Added setup option to hide the mainmenu entry.
259 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
260 - Fixed VDR 1.2.x compile issues.
261 - Fixed crash on status message display while the classic replay display is
264 24.06.2004: Version 0.9.2 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.11)
265 - Added a setup option to toggle MP3 replay display between classic and skin
266 version. Note that the big playlist display isn't available in skin mode.
267 - Added rewind button to MPlayer menu. Suggested by Sebastian Kemper.
268 - Updated finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
269 - Fixed current play time calculation for MPlayer without slave-patch.
270 Reported by Uwe Scheffler.
271 - Fixed status messages which were displayed for ever. Reported by Sascha
274 05.06.2004: Version 0.9.1 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.9)
275 - Added finnish translations. Provided by Rolf Ahrenberg.
276 - Adapted to the changes in VDR 1.3.7+. Based on patches provided by Sascha
277 Volkenandt & Sven Goethel.
278 - Fixed long standing bug in ID3 tag parsing, when the file contains an
279 incomplete ID3 tag at the end of file. Thanks to Matt Tovey for debugging.
280 - Better german translations. Suggested by Andreas Brachold.
281 - Now ignoring dot-files in file browser. Suggested by Patrick Cernko.
282 - Now showing total play time in MPlayer progress display. The value may be
283 inaccurate. Suggested by Patrick Cernko.
284 - Added resume capability for MPlayer. The resume position is stored in a file
285 called ".mplayer.resume" in the directory of the MPlayer file. Based on a
286 patch provided by Patrick Cernko.
287 - Added a setup option to mute audio at end of playlist. Based on a patch
288 provided by Christoph Gohle.
289 - Now accepting absolute paths in playlists, even though the path must point to
290 somewhere inside the defined source directory. Suggested by Niklaus Stutz.
292 08.05.2004: Version 0.9.0 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.1)
293 - Added OSS soundcard output. Use make option WITH_OSS_OUTPUT=1 to compile
294 support, commandline option -D to change DSP device and plugin setup menu to
295 select output mode. Thanks to Gunnar Roth.
296 - Added shoutcast/icecast metadata parsing. Thanks to Andreas Brachold.
297 - Now restoring locale settings in MPlayer plugin.
298 - Fixed MPlayer exit problem while paused.
299 - Fixed showing outdated song name shortly after start of a new song.
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303 16.01.2004: Version 0.8.3 (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.1)
304 - Fixed shutting down network connection (race condition).
305 - Added a pointer to Juri's mplayer.sh in the README.
306 - Fixed compilation problem with VDR 1.3.x and Beauty-Patch.
308 16.11.2003: Version 0.8.2 (vdr 1.2.6)
309 - Fixed quoting special shell characters when calling MPlayer.
310 - Now sending a "quit" to MPlayer when in slave mode rather than killing the
312 - Updated recommended library versions to libmad/libid3tag 0.15.0b and
315 08.08.2003: Version 0.8.1 (vdr 1.2.2)
316 - Fixed network code for DOS-style \r\n (Thanks to Roland Praml).
318 01.06.2003: Version 0.8.0 (vdr 1.2.0)
319 - Fixed thread cancelation in network code (valgrind hits).
320 - Stable release 0.8.0.
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324 25.05.2003: Version 0.7.15 plugin development (vdr 1.1.33)
325 - Adapted to the changes in vdr 1.1.33.
326 - Corrected the README about the fact that the plugins require vdr 1.1.29+.
327 - Added Spanish & Catalan translations. Thanks to Ramon Roca.
329 18.05.2003: Version 0.7.14 plugin development (vdr 1.1.32)
330 - Fixed ringbuffer handling for changes in vdr 1.1.31/32.
331 - MPlayer progressbar can be moved up/down now. Use keys 6/9 while the
332 progressbar is displayed.
333 - Added Swedish translations. Thanks to Jan Ekholm.
335 27.04.2003: Version 0.7.13 plugin development (vdr 1.1.29)
336 - Fixed compile error due to changes in vdr 1.1.29.
337 - Fixed VDR version check.
339 18.04.2003: Version 0.7.12 plugin development (vdr 1.1.27)
340 - Added support for MPlayers slave commands "get_percent_pos" &
341 "get_time_length". Gives better results for the progressbar. The slavemode
342 patch for MPlayer is still needed as not all video formats provide
343 information through these slave commands.
344 - Fixed s/ms mixup in remote CDDB connect.
345 - Fixed possible deadlock-race in mp3 & snd decoder.
346 - Added OggVorbis decoder. libvorbis & libvorbisfile needed.
347 - Updated French translations. Thanks to Pierre-Henri Beguin.
348 - Added VDR version check.
350 27.03.2003: Version 0.7.11 plugin development (vdr 1.1.26)
351 - Fixed MPlayer AudioDelay(). Thanks to Sven Goethel.
352 - Fixed MPlayer key repeat. Thanks to Reinhard Walter Buchner.
353 - Added yellow/green key to MPlayer control to skip back/forward a minute.
354 Key assignment may change in future for these keys.
355 - Fixed Makefile for DVB includes.
356 - Fixed creation of cMPlayerStatus according to the rules.
357 - Fixed pipe reading and parse code. Caused all kind of weird behaviour.
358 - Some changes to the MPlayer pipe handling.
359 - Changed the network ringbuffer handling. You should use VDR version 1.1.25+
360 or you may suffer from high cpu load during network streaming.
361 - Added a console message if a plugin fails to start due to a missing
364 03.02.2003: Version 0.7.10 plugin development (vdr 1.1.23)
365 - Added patches for MPlayer 0.90rc1 (contributed by Beppe on the VDR ML).
366 - Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.1.22.
367 - Removed speed drift detection. Makes not much sense with HEAD driver, as this
368 supports non-48kHz modes anyways.
370 18.12.2002: Version 0.7.9 plugin development (vdr 1.1.20)
371 - Added commandline option to specify a script which is called before & after
372 network access (e.g. for dial-up networking) (suggested by Matthias Raus).
373 - Fixed playback speed check for (partly) corrupted files.
374 - Fixed blocking frontend thread during possibly slow playback startup.
375 - Added support for shoutcast/icecast streams. See MANUAL for URL file format
376 and setup menu options.
378 24.11.2002: Version 0.7.8 plugin development (vdr 1.1.16)
379 - Speed up local CDDB database search with huge databases. Due to this, only
380 one subdirectory level is allowed in the database directory (usually the
381 category name). This follows the common xmcd database layout.
382 - Added code for remote CDDB lookups. cddb.sh script is no longer needed. Please
383 note, that the commandline options have changed.
384 - Added some status output while scanning/loading playlists to inform the user.
386 13.11.2002: Version 0.7.7 plugin development (vdr 1.1.16)
387 - Updated Makefile to support Make.config.
388 - Removed a deadlock together with the rt-patch.
389 - Added support for the new remote keys (play,pause,fastfwd/rwd).
391 06.10.2002: Version 0.7.6 plugin development (vdr 1.1.12)
392 - Removed a class name conflict (cSource) introduced with the changes in
394 - Added a field to the sources.conf files to specify which kind of files should
395 be used on a source (see mp3sources.conf.example).
397 06.09.2002: Version 0.7.5 plugin development (vdr 1.1.8)
398 - Fixed bug in new status string code, which crashed VDR if a song without
399 artist tag was played.
400 - Fixed parsing error of MPlayer output in slavemode if "C" is not the current
402 - Fixed jump to minute in MPlayer slavemode.
403 - If you have installed the "replay mode beauty patch" the new symbols are used
404 for MPlayer progressbar too. This feature is auto-detected in the Makefile.
406 01.09.2002: Version 0.7.4 plugin development (vdr 1.1.8)
407 - Changed the status string to show the loop/shuffle state too.
408 - Fixed replay problem with background mode "black". With vdr 1.1.8 you must
409 apply the included patch to the base source.
410 - Changed the way mplayer.sh is called. Now it shouldn't be necessary to give
411 the full path to the script if the script is in the current PATH.
412 - Added MANUAL a file.
413 - New setup option SlaveMode for MPlayer. With SlaveMode enabled you can
414 control MPlayer via VDR. A progress display is available too. See MANUAL for
415 details (thanks to Dariush Forouher).
417 23.08.2002: Version 0.7.3 plugin development (vdr 1.1.7)
418 - Now using libsndfile 1.x.x. You must update you system. The plugin won't
419 compile with version 0.0.x.
420 - Fixed detection if MPlayer is still running.
421 - Fixed GetIndex() to return frames rather than seconds (thanks to Martin
423 - The last second of the last song in a playlist wasn't played. Now waiting
424 until the ringbuffer is really empty.
426 16.08.2002: Version 0.7.2 plugin development (vdr 1.1.7)
427 - Fixed gcc 2.96 compiling error due to variable name "not".
428 - Fixed a undefined symbol error when compiling without libsndfile.
429 - Fixed a deadlock in the MP3 player.
430 - Removed old stale LCD code parts.
431 - Now using free() on all strings.
432 - Adapted to the API changes in vdr 1.1.7.
434 11.08.2002: Version 0.7.1 plugin development (vdr 1.1.6)
435 - Added some calls to the status monitor.
436 - Fixed internationalization (thanks to David Spiller).
437 - Fixed jump to the next song at the end of current song (thanks to David
439 - Replaced all busy usleep wait loops with proper condition variables.
440 - Removed one thread level in the MPlayer plugin.
442 08.08.2002: Version 0.7.0 plugin development (vdr 1.1.6)
443 - Updated the source base to release version 0.6.2.
444 - Added MPlayer plugin.
445 - MP3 playback now functionaly.
447 13.05.2002: Version 0.0.2 plugin development (vdr 1.1.2)
448 - Added setup menu page and saving of setup options.
449 - Adding to playlist and playlist rename now functional. Beside playback all
450 menus are (better should be) working.
451 - Now using confdir/plugins/mp3sources.conf for sources config.
453 10.05.2002: Version 0.0.1 plugin development (vdr 1.1.1)