VDR Plugin Revision History
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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 Schrder.
- Fixed segfault in network code (pthread_cancel). Reported by Malte Schrder.
- 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- Outdated entries in the MPlayer resume file are removed now.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.
