Hello, the softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr's softdevice plugin. General info: ? 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. Supported vdr versions: (1.2.x,) 1.3.x and 1.4.x Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Special hint: For cle266 hardware decoding support via DirectFB, you'll need a fresh version from todays DirectFB's cvs. Further you'll need libcle266mpegdec which is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cle266mpegdec/ Changelog since last release: 2006-10-09: softdevice-0.3.0 2006-10-03: - fix hang after long pause. 2006-10-01: - enable cropping for video-shm. - Remove some unneeded code and fix ctl->width/height setting. 2006-09-29: - video-shm: silence warnings. - video-xv: removed osdMutex. - video-dfb: removed osdMutex. clear non video area when OSD is active to avoid fade effects. 2006-09-22: - protect locking for old picture by a separate mutex. - fix possible lost picture update and dropped areaMutex. 2006-09-21: - introduce a mutex to protect calls to videoOut from SoftOsd - initialize parameters for the vout->GetOSDMode() call 2006-09-19: - fix "Error! Trying to unlock a nil picture... Ignoring" error message. - use current_OsdMode instead of setupStore.OsdMode 2006-09-18: - fix RefreshAll for NoVScaleCopyToBitmap() - add a very simple cpu type and host system detection to configure - fix changing from pseudo to software osd blending for video-xv - remove no longer needed test for broken gcc compiler from configure - combine shared memory checks into CheckShmIDs() - improve error messages in video-shm.c 2006-09-17: - replace "pshufw" with MMX commands to make scaling optimazations available to processors without MMX2 - cleanup PicBuffer.c, release PicBuffers in destructor,... - add linux framebuffer detection to configure - disable libcle266mpegdec if no DirectFB is found - add altivec optimizations to some AlphaBlend() and yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx2_line() - make utils.c compile on non MMX machines, cleanup some #ifdefs - fix compile issue with g++-4.1.1 - add NoVScaleCopyToBitmap() for RGB modes 2006-09-16: - added -vo shm: to help option - added support new fields from libcle266mpegdec-0.4 - video-dfb: removed check and support for DSBLIT_INTERLACED as DirectFB has buildin support for this now. - disable cle266 support if DirectFB is not patched for this - cle266: fix one aspect ratio info and configure (by Rolf Ahrenberg) 2006-09-12: - don't continue on argument errors 2006-09-11: - catch unrecognized options for dfb-out (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg) 2006-09-10: - fix "NVidia software alpha blending OSD" issue, which turned out to be a compiler problem with g++-4.1.1. (Many thanks to Prakash Punnoor, Matthias Schwarzott, Chris Elsworth and all the others who helped to fix this) 2006-09-09: - video-xv.c: silence some warnings - video-vidix: offer equalizer settings via OSD (brightness, hue, saturation and contrast) offer HW-deinetrlace via OSD when available (by Roland Praml) 2006-09-08: - limit destination video offsets to even values - fix typo in asignment - fix xv-out with subplugins disabled 2006-09-04: - fix wrong colors when using ShmClient (reported by Matthias Schwarzott and derWolf@vdrportal) - disable debuging printouts - cleanup - set sPicBuffer completly to zero 2006-08-27: - adjust ffmpeg library order in configure - enable different pixel formats in video-xv - properly init ctl->key (reported by Matthias Schwarzott) 2006-08-05: - video-dfb: disable reported failed flags in SetParams() 2006-07-25: - no longer exit when a audio mode is not available, audio is only disabled. - clean up audio-alsa - init tmpOsdSurface and delete dirtyLines properly - try to use the XVideo default brightness, hue etc. values on first start - new option: "-vo xv:use-defaults", can be used to reset the values of brightness, hue etc. to the default values. (Based on a patch by Matthias Schwarzott) 2006-07-16: - only link against libXi if necessary ( do we need libXi at all?) - check explicitly for pkg-config in configure - configure: "--with-ffmpeg-path" overrides pkg-config - unconditionally set _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN Atom when going fullscreen (recent Metacity WM need it) 2006-07-12: - fix segfault in OSD refresher. 2006-07-11: - remove no longer defined FFMPEG_VERSION string 2006-07-10: - move alsa related stuff into a separate file, enable build without alsa support - remove uneeded include of "sys/mman.h" and "sys/ioctl.h" from video.c - set max_width and max_height for temporary PicBuffer - remove uneeded include of "linux/fb.h" from softdevice.c - fix possible endianness problems in SoftOsd.c - add support for yuy2 pixel format to alpha blend and copy pic buf code - change return value of AllocPicBuffer() - change the parameters of yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx() so that it can also be used for not interlaced pictures 2006-06-25: - video pixelformat and stretchblit mode can be locked by output driver, so that changeing them is not offered via OSD. - video-dfb: - Adapted radeon real alphablend handling to current DirectFB-cvs. It is now handled similary to via mode (with underlay). - In mgatv-out mode, video surface is now allways allocated with attribute DSCAPS_INTERLACED to support interlaced stretchblit of DirectFB-cvs. - Removed test #if directives introduced in first via hw-dec support. - Lock pixelformat and stretchblit mode in case via hw-decode and mgatv mode. 2006-06-21: - video-dfb: changed pixel format for HW-decoding to I420. So accelerated and unaccelerated modes use the same pixel format. 2006-06-18: - ignore config.log on commit checks - removed hardcoded FBDEV name in Makefile and configure 2006-06-17: - cle266, video-dfb: added HW-decoder support - configure: check for libcle266mpegdec instead of cle266mpegdec - get frame buffer name at runtime: 1. via enviroment variable FRAMEBUFFER 2. try /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0 2006-06-16: - video-dfb: fix via aspect ratio handling 2006-06-15: - make configure a bit more verbose. A complete log is now saved in config.log. - fix delete <-> delete[] mismatch reported by Prakash Punnoor. 2006-06-09: - activate mmx version of yv12_to_yuy2_il_ () for dfb, xv and vidix. - name change libsubvdr-softdevice-METHOD.so.?? -> libsoftdevice-METHOD.so.?? . - removed option -L . is obsolete since we can get the path we are loaded from, at runtime (thanks to Petri Hintukainen). 2006-06-06: - mmx version of yv12_to_yuy2_il_c(): yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx2(). not yet called. 2006-05-30: - set pic->format in AllocPicBuffer() - more debug messages 2006-05-29: - fix PICDEB - fix a few stupid errors in VideoFilter.c, initialise more variables in PicFilter.c 2006-05-27: - move postproc stuff into VideoFilter.[ch] - apply patch to use direct rendering - add tests for older ffmpeg versions to configure - add "--disable-mmx" and "--disable-mmx2" to configure - fix possible segfaults in SoftOsd when using a zoom faktor 2006-05-23: - fix VIA OSD transparency for newer DirectFB cvs versions - merged some defines which belong together - added 15:9 screen aspect - fix postprocessing not offered via OSD even detected by configure - reenable software alpha blending for video-shm - move AlphaBlend into utils.c, clean up MMX defines 2006-05-07: - video-dfb: preparation for DSBLIT_INTERLACED which results in better displaying of downscaled 16:9 on 4:3 TVs with matrox. - video-dfb: make YUY2 color info reordering dependant of interlaced vs. progressive video. 2006-05-01: - some fixes for DirectFB compile, configure & 64bit arch . -- Stefan Lucke
