Hello, softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr softdevice plugin. Softdevice plugin enables vdr to run on your desktop with so called budget cards. You'll get vdr output via framebuffer or X11-Xv or DirectFB or vidix to your screen. Decoding is done via ffmpeg. For compile options, please read the Makefile carefully and decide which of the available output methods fit to your system. Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Changelog since last release: 2005-09-04: softdevice-0.1.3 - dfb-out: applied dfb-key-repeat handling patch (by Marko M?kel?) 2005-08-19: - change #ifdefs to contain closing brackets (stops my editor from complaining...) - fix possible segfault in ToYUV() 2005-08-17: - audio-out: changed retrieval of audio delay with newer alsa versions on "default" device. should fix bug #2971 too. 2005-08-08: - dfb-out: enclose all dfb calls by try{}catch{} by Marko M?kel? 2005-07-31: - remove Deactivate(), instead deactive at start of Stop() - stop playback in Clear() while clearing the packet buffer - introduce SOFTDEB, more checks agains NULL dereferences - call decoder->Clear in Clear - return NULL in getPPValue when compiled without postproc lib (suggested by Antonio) 2005-07-29: - some small changes on finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg - fix for segfaults in setup-softdevice.c by previous change 2005-07-27: - compile fix for newer ffmpeg versions (> 2005-07-17 22:24:35) by Antonio - fix for video-dfb.c change from 2005-07-16 by Rolf Ahrenberg - more OSD entries translateable by Rolf Ahrenberg - more finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg - limit cropping amount to 50 each 2005-07-24: - finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg 2005-07-23: - vidix-out: - some cosmetic cleanups - force OSD mode pseudo when YUY2 pixelformat is choosen 2005-07-22: - changed pause OSD handling in software drawing mode - work around for some *.avi files where frametime is zero - fix previously introduced compile fail without -DUSE_SUBPLUGINS - include patch from Claas Hilbrecht for "-vo dummy:" - some code reorg for subpluging loader 2005-07-20: - fix for live view at trick speed - stretchBlit mode for dfb-out is selectable via OSD - cropLeft/Right for xv-out and dfb-out - exclude cropTop/Bottom OSD from fb-out - adjusted vidix-out call of yv12_to_yuy2() to dfb-out 2005-07-17: - crop Top/Bottom for xv-out - introduce colour space conversion (by Malcom Caldwell) - make filters work with YUV422 color space 2005-07-16: - fix for cropBottom in dfb with YUY2 pixelformat - some preparations for configure in video-dfb.c - some preparations for configure in utils.c 2005-07-15: - by Vadim Catana: - fixed a couple of compiler warnings for gcc4 on x86-64 - the video-vidix.c and video-dfb.c both contain code that converts pictures from YV12 format to YUY2. I moved this common code to a function in utils.c . - Some channels display white dots at the top and bottom of the screen due to WSS data encoded in the picture. This problem has been mentioned on vdr, linux-dvb and dxr3 mailinglists a few times. I added two new items in the softdevice menu that allow to cut off a number of lines from top and bottom of the picture. It is implemented now only for -vo vidix and dfb with i420/YV12 format and hardware alpha blending. - by Malcolm Caldwell: fix for vdr segfaulting 2005-07-03: - fix fullscreen mode for 64-bit architectures - improve response time for 60-sec skips 2005-06-30: - changed delay clamping low limit and printout "+" if we drop frames - dfb: report current frame duration - dfb: activated device specific delay handling 2005-06-28: - fix for loosing window dimensions upon switching from fullscreen mode to windowed mode 2005-06-26: - fix compile issue with recent gcc versions (patch by alexw) 2005-06-18: - provide error message on stderr when Xv plugin cannot connect to X server. 2005-06-12: - no new audio frame has been decoded when audio_size <= 0 (reported by Antonio O.) - introduce fast_memcpy (gives 20-30% speed increase on copying) - switch xv-out to fast_memcpy - enable fast and default deblock postprocessing - make buffersizes choosable 2005-06-06: - fixed latest ffmpeg cvs compile issue - applied fix for noisy audio on some soundcards (by Antonio O.) - applied GetDeviceDescription() patch for video-dfb.c (by Lucian Muresan) 2005-06-05: - compile by default with "-g" - fix vidix segfault 2005-05-29: - changed screen aspect ratio selection (based on suggestion by Nicolas Huillard) - fix some segfaults on bad signal - fix possible segfault when called without arguments (thanks to Marko M?kel?) - buffering is now complety signal triggered - made buffersizes variable -- Stefan Lucke
