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VDR developer version 1.3.49 is now available at

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.49.tar.bz2

A 'diff' against the previous version is available at

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.48-49.diff


Well, it's an unusual time for a new developer version of VDR,
but since there have been a few last minute fixes, and I really
want to make version 1.4.0 happen this sunday, I'm releasing
this hopefully last release candidate today.

Please take a thorough look at the changes - especially the ones
to the actual program code files - to help avoid any stupid last
minute bugs.

If there are no more serious bugs, this will become the final
version 1.4.0 this sunday :-)

[New features:]

Hi,

last days i played a lot with vomp and thought about possible improvements.
Here are my results for your further discussion:


New features:
1. programme-reminders
Chris mentioned this in "The Plan". Would be really interesting, if this worked automatically. So I put some Search-Strings like "Robbie Williams" or so and get a message if there is a new show with him on any channel.

2. protected recordings
Was discussed here: http://www.loggytronic.com/forum/index.php?topic=113.0.
Would be nice to have per user- or per mediamvp protected recordings/folders/timers, that can only be seen from a specific user or mediamvp (MAC-address).

3. Folders for new recordings
A possibility to select an existing folder (and/or add a new folder) when adding a new timer.
(E.g. i would like to order my recordings like "username/movies/moviename" or (to carry that to the extremes) "user/series/seriesname/season/episodename")

4. Register-View: Options
What do you think about making registers at the options-page? So you won't have to leave the options-menue any more to change the sub-category.

5. Register-View: Channels
Just an idea: Registers in the Channels list. I have some marks in my channels.conf, esp. for music-channels, sport-channels, news-channels etc.
Perhaps you could add registers on the top of the channels-page: [All] [Music] [Sports] [News] (depending on the individual channels.conf).
In my optinion this would make the selection of a channel much quicker. (By the way: What's about a small channel-selection-onscreen-field?)

6. Move/Rename Recordings
Possibility to Rename and/or move a recording or directory

7. Call monitor
I have a isdn-card in my vdr. would be nice to get a little info-box about incoming calls on my mediamvp [possibly only for one specific number/msn -- possibility to automatically pause time-shifted livetv]


8. FileBrowser/Viewer for Photos
9. FileBrowser/Viewer for Mpeg-Files
10. FileBrowser/Viewer for DVDs
11. FileBrowser/Viewer for MP3s/Audio-Files
I know that this is very low priority for Chris, but we could keep this in mind for future ;-)


Bugs/improving existing functionality

1. Backward-Scan in Recordings
Mentioned in "The Plan"

2.Ordering in Recordings
Anything's no more working correcty here (at least with VDR 1.2.6):
Seems that vomp orders the recordings by name (asc) and the folders by date. In my opinion this should work the other way round:
folders by name, recordings by date.

3. Direct Channel-selection while onscreen-display is shown
Is there a possibility to let vomp accept the numbers (for switching to another channel) while the onscreen now&next-box is shown?
When I quickly switch between some channels i always have to press "ok" first.

4. No sound in LiveTV
With the new Version (0.2.2) i have sometimes no sound after selecting a new channel (esp. when i directly change it by chan+/-). Cannot remember to hava had this with Vomp 0.1.2.


Thanks again to Chris for this great piece of software! :-)

greetz
Schnurps

Hi,

here is my updated language-data.h with addet and improved german translations.
I am missing some Translation-Strings (esp. from the "Edit Timers"-page). :-)

greetz
Schnurps

P.S.: I took the newest cvs-version of the file.

Hi!

I found a bug with the new recordings progress bar:
If I fast-forward a recording, the seconds doesn't count faster, and if i stop fast-forwarding, it jumps to the new time. It would be nice to count in "real-time" quicker...

And what's with recordings that are still recording? The Total-Time/Progress should change while the recording, but it seems (have not completely tested it), that it doesn't update these numbers.

Schnurps

VDR developer version 1.3.47 is now available at

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.47.tar.bz2

Except for a few version numbers in the man pages etc., this
is pretty much what will become the final version 1.4.

I've also read that in the CVS-Notes. A windows-client would be really cool, but I cannot really believe that this is possible, too.
If I've read this information today for the first day, I would think of it as a April Fool's joke... :-)

Schnurps

There is a bug reported on vdr-portal (http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=438886#post438886):

Vomp seems to crash while trying to access a corrupted video file.
(means that the linked video files are not available/accessable).

Cannot say anything to that, just want you to know, Chris/Dave! :-)

Schnurps

A patch for vdr 1.3.44-compatibility has been postet on vdr-portal by zulu:

http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=432149#post432149

Schnurps

Answered here:
http://www.loggytronic.com/forum/index.php?topic=103.msg600#msg600

Schnurps

another minor here:
the german KiKa (a kids channel) stops broadcasting at around
9 p.m. or so.
tuning into KiKa after 9 makes the MVP hang.
it then needs to be power cycled.
can anyone from germany confirm this?

KiKa hangs for about 5 seconds, and then there is shown a KiKa-picture that give me exactly this iformation (Kika ends at 9pm).
But I have problems with unavailable/temporaly not-available channels, too.
I am using VDR 1.2.6, and because of teh missing auto-pid I have quite often wrong frequencies for updated channels...


Schnurps

One more suggestion for future releases:

A Skinning-System for VOMP!
Would be nice to have the possibility of individual skin for every single mvp.
I like this functional and basic skin (because it is really fast), but perhaps somebody wants to make another skin, more likely looking like Windows MCE/Meedio with more and larger icons etc.

Schnurps

Perhaps these errors have something to do with the new timers-function in vomp and this message by kls?

*** IMPORTANT NOTE **************************************************
*** ***
*** This version changes the handling of the "summary" and "flag" ***
*** fields in timer definitions. So in case you are using an ***
*** external tool for programming timers, which uses that field, ***
*** please wait until the author of that tool has adapted it to ***
*** the new handling. ***
*** ***
*********************************************************************

Schnurps

Hi Chris,

i am really looking forward to the next version of vomp! The new features sound great!

As I think most of the important features are done (with the exception of a recordings-osd/statusbar - that would be great!), perhaps you should do a bugfixing-version, with these annoying things:

Sometimes Audio/Video-Asynchronism in LiveTV, (issue in the basic of mpeg-streaming?)
crashes of vdr or vomp (sometimes we have to restart vdr one time a day...), (not complete sure what are the single reasons, one is this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1398901&group_id=139484&atid=743655)
missing backward-scan (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226443&group_id=139484&atid=743658)
and i still have sometimes comp-crashes when trying to access a not reachable channel...

I would recommend to start with debugging/completing the already good featureset, before adding more new features.#
I know that it is more fun and motivating to add new functions, but now should be the time to make the existing features perfect!

Schnurps

VDR developer version 1.3.42 is now available at

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.42.tar.bz2

[new remotes]

Hi,

could it be, that vomp 0.1.1 has following bug:
when pressing the "|<"-button on new remotes while watching a recording, that button has the same function as ">|" and forwards a minute, not rewinds? Not really sure, perhaps anybody can confirm this? :-)

Yours,

André