History

2014-08-05: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.10

  • Improved: Optimized images to reduze their size. (Submitted by Ville Skyttä)
  • Improved: Sort recordings secondarily by date when sorting by name. Makes the ordering stabler for multiple recordings with the same name. (Submitted by Olli Lammi)
  • Added: streaming of recordings folders (Submitted by Daniel Matzke).
  • Added: Hungarian translation (Submitted by István Füley).
  • Fixed LSTR when executing recording commands on VDR >= 1.7.21 (Submitted by David Rütti)
  • Updated: Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
  • Updated: Finnish translation.
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2011-11-20: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.9

  • Added: Support changed SVDRP LSTR output of VDR >= 1.7.21 (Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed: --log 0 command line argument (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Startup error messages on module load failures (Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: -L/--logfile command line arg for overriding config (Ville Skyttä).
  • Changed: Honor config logging options with --nofork (Ville Skyttä).
  • Changed: Specifying -L or -l turns logging on (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Do not require pid dir when not running as daemon (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Autodetect default for number of DVB cards (Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed: Non-localhost streamdev URL (Bug report #653, Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: Live TV streaming with Xineliboutput plugin (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Adapt rename recording to Liemikuutio 1.32 (Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: Show recording length in list and details with VDR >= 1.7.21 (Bug report #813, Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: Show available subtitles in EPG/recording details (Ville Skyttä).
  • Updated: German translation (Andreas Mair).
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2011-06-03: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.8

  • Updated: Dutch translation (Submitted by Roel Koelewijn).
  • Updated: Finnish translation (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Access logging (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: SVDRP connection error handling/logging/messages (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Default SVDRP port is 6419 in initial config if locally installed VDR is >= 1.7.15 (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Use default streamdev host from browser URL when VDR host is localhost (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Allow specifying multiple local subnets (Feature #560, Ville Skyttä).
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2010-04-10: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.7

  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto).
  • Fixed: creating/editing of searches using EPGsearch v0.9.24 (Bug report #567).
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements.
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2010-03-13: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.6

  • Added: Support new epgsearch v0.9.25-git settings "unmute" and "min. description match".
  • Changed: Log to syslog by default (if logging is enabled) (Ville Skyttä).
  • Changed: Fall back to stderr if setting up syslog fails (Ville Skyttä).
  • Changed: Get character encoding from configured locale or environment variables (Submitted by Tobias Grimm).
  • Fixed: Encode SVDRP commands sent to VDR if needed (Submitted by Tobias Grimm).
  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto).
  • Updated: Dutch translation (Submitted by Roel Koelewijn).
  • Updated: Spanish translation (Submitted by Manuel Gomez).
  • Improved: Default mail settings (Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed: Check if "GUI_POPUP_WIDTH" and "GUI_POPUP_HEIGHT" are numeric and set them to the defaults if they are not (Reported by Jan).
  • Added: Support VDR 1.7.12+ commands.conf and reccmds.conf (means: skip lines ending in "{" and lines with only "}" in them).
  • Added: check file and directory permissions on startup abort on error.
  • Changed: Default directory for PID file to /var/run/vdradmin.
  • Changed: Default directory for log file to /var/log/vdradmin.
  • Changed: Use "cache" directory in the current directory if $SEARCH_FILES_IN_SYSTEM is not set.
  • Changed: Hide "record" button in EPG lists there's already a timer for that broadcast (Based on patch by Dave Pickles).
  • Added: New options to show or hide a broadcast's subtitle and/or summary in EPG lists (Based on patch by Dave Pickles).
  • Added: New option to set a day's "start time" in "Playing today?" (Based on patch by Dave Pickles).
  • Changed: Minimum required epgsearch version now is 0.9.24.
  • Added: Support for new epgsearch search timer actions (Bug #557).
  • Changed: "--ipv6" only enables IPv6 for connections to VDRAdmin-AM, to also use IPv6 for SVDRP connection one can use "--ipv6-all" (if he really knows what he's doing!).
  • Fixed: Check encoding for every SVDRP connection (Submitted by Tobias Grimm).
  • Changed: Warn about missing key or certificate if --ssl is used.
  • Changed: Certificates for --ssl option must be located in $ETCDIR/certs.
  • Fixed: Resizing browser window in "Timeline" showed "file not found" (Reported by tag @vdr-portal.de).
  • Updated: Links to EPGSearch and Streamdev home pages (Ville Skyttä).
  • Updated: Finnish translation (Ville Skyttä).
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2009-12-30: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.5

  • Changed: use HTTP::Date for HTTP date/time formatting (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Create fewer SVDRP connections (Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed: some jslint warnings in javascript files (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Config file read/write error handling (Ville Skyttä).
  • Improved: Send Last-Modified header for static resources (Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: "-l" and "--log" parameter.
  • Changed: "-nf" option to "-n".
  • Changed: Logging.
  • Added: "--ssl" switch to accept https instead of http.
  • Added: Find VDR 1.7.2+ TS recordings.
  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto).
  • Fixed: epgsearch uses seconds in aux field of timers, not minutes (Reported by Rincewind99 @vdr-portal.de).
  • Fix bug #507 "EPGsearch custom categories no longer show".
  • Fixed: Saving the config showed error message "1".
  • Reworked: Spanish translation (Submitted by Manuel Gomez).
  • Fixed: failing check whether the process with our pid is a vdradmind (Ville Skyttä)
  • Fixed: always exit with status 1 from --kill if no processes were killed (Ville Skyttä)
  • Improved: pid file error handling (Ville Skyttä)
  • Added: autotimer schedule change tracking option in UI (Ville Skyttä)
  • Fixed: use text/javascript for JavaScript in HTTP headers (Ville Skyttä)
  • Updated: required Perl module documentation (Ville Skyttä)
  • Improved: template caching options (stat ttl, default cache dir is now /var/cache/vdradmin) (Ville Skyttä)
  • Improved: error message when binding the server socket fails (Ville Skyttä)
  • Improved: warn if log file cannot be written to (Ville Skyttä)
  • Fixed: don't try to delete pid file in non-daemon mode.
  • Improved: include reason in pid file deletion error message (Ville Skyttä).
  • Added: ability to log to syslog ("LOGFILE = syslog" in config) (Ville Skyttä).
  • Changed: non-daemon mode (-nf) always turns on logging to stderr (Ville Skyttä).
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2008-12-20: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.4

  • Added: Use ".update" in VDR's video directory to check if recordings cache needs to be refreshed.
  • Added: CACHE_REC_ENABLED option in vdradmind.conf to enable (1) or disable (0) recordings caching.
  • Changed: Encode.pm now is optional and no recoding will happen if it's missing.
  • Updated: Finnish translation (Ville Skyttä)
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2008-12-13: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.3

  • Updated: Spanish translation (Submitted by Rüdiger Jung).
  • Changed: Process name to "vdradmind" (Based on patch submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto).
  • Changed executable's name from "vdradmind.pl" to "vdradmind".
  • Updated: Dutch translation (Submitted by Roel Koelewijn).
  • Added Play/Stop/FastForward/etc. buttons to remote controls (based on patch by L.Locke @vdr-portal.de).
  • Added: epgsearch templates can be created, modified and deleted.
  • Read used character encoding in SVDRP connections and recode result to the encoding used in the current locale.
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements.
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2008-06-30: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.2

  • Changed: No need to set the VFAT option in VDRAdmin-AM any longer as both filename codings will be searched for.
  • Fixed: some bugs in tv.html.
  • Fixed: command line options parsing.
  • Fixed: pattern titles that contain double quotes.
  • Fixed: timer titles that contain double quotes.
  • Added: new command line switch "--ipv6" to use IO::Socket::INET6 for networking (See bug report #462).
  • Updated: Dutch translation (Submitted by Roel Koelewijn).
  • Added: ST_STREAMDEV_HOST config option to set the name/ip to be used for streaming.
  • Fixed: m3u files for Xine (Reported by Robert C. Helling).
  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto).
  • Updated: Spanish translation (Submitted by Rüdiger Jung).
  • Updated: Finnish translation (Submitted by Rolf Ahrenberg).
  • Changed: include UTF8 locales by default.
  • Introduced new config options "GUI_POPUP_WIDTH" and "GUI_POPUP_HEIGHT" for setting the prog_detail's window size (Requested by Viking @vdr-portal.de).
  • Added prev/next arrows in prog_list after each day (Requested by Faudeer @vdr-portal.de).
  • Show channel in prog_list even if it's not in the current channel list; this is useful if prog_list is called by a link (e.g. timer_list) (Requested by Faudeer @vdr-portal.de).
  • Added support for modifying EPGSearch blacklists (Requested by dings @vdr-portal.de).
  • Show stream and switch buttons in prog_summary on channels without EPG information (Reported by Faudeer @vdr-portal.de).
  • Added: Show channelname in recording's details (Suggested by Stefan Seyfried).
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements.
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2007-12-19: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.1

  • Fixed: show textfield if no locales found.
  • Updated for infoboxes.js.
  • Fixed: wrong sorting in find results.
  • Changed: Remove leading and trailing whitespaces from a timer's title (Reported by Derek).
  • Changed: Minimal required EPGsearch version to v0.9.23.
  • Added: Support for features introduced in EPGsearch v0.9.23 (e.g. auto delete searches, timeframe for searches).
  • Fixed: Close connection to VDR after AutoTimer update (Reported by Leo @vdr-portal.de).
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2007-09-21: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.0

  • Changed: prog_timeline uses global channels array instead of copying it locally.
  • Fixed: Bug in prog_timeline introduced in 3.6.0beta (Reported by several users).
  • Updated: Italian translation (Submitted by Diego Pierotto)
  • Updated: Spanish translation (Submitted by Rüdiger Jung).
  • Fixed: Channel range in epgsearch_new didn't work since 3.6.0beta (Reported by mblaster4711 @vdr-portal.de).
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2007-08-27: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.0rc

  • Updated: French translation (Submitted by Trois Six).
  • Updated: Dutch translation (Submitted by Roel Koelewijn).
  • Updated: French translation (Submitted by Ville Skyttä & Rolf Ahrenberg).
  • Reworked: configuration part: selected channels work again and settings are only applied if "save" or "apply" is pressed in config menu.
  • Fixed: initialisation if CHANNEL_WANTED_<area> config options.
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2007-08-17: VDRAdmin-AM v3.6.0beta

  • Added: export of channels in each channel group as m3u playlist in vdr_cmds.
  • Added: channel list to rc.
  • Added: VDRAdmin-AM now holds four default channel groups: all channels / selected channels / tv channels / radio channels.
  • Reworked: Logging; Use "LOGFILE = stderr" if you want logging to stderr.
  • Added: If background EPG refreshes are enabled, VDRAdmin-AM will try to read the EPG data from VDR at startup and if VDR can't be reached it will try every minute until it can read the EPG data.
  • Added: New option in configuration for enabling/disabling background EPG refreshes.
  • Changed: default for tv.html to only show the grabbed picture (for VDR streamingtool).
  • Added: config option "Show channels without EPG information".
  • Fixed: wrong background color for some broadcasts having timers in prog_timeline.
  • Fixed: Last frame now shows "REC" (see bug report #249).
  • Fixed: Reduce memory usage of EPG tree.
  • Fixed: Priority and lifetime can be set to "0" (See bug report #232).
  • Changed: Priority/Lifetime/Buffer Start/Buffer Stop in (Auto)Timer can now be empty ("") which means "use default set in configuration".
  • New: configure options for AutoTimer: start/stop buffer.
  • Fixed: Handle symbolic links when find'ing video files for a recording.
  • Added: "stderr" as special LOGFILE target to log to stderr (=console?).
  • Fixed: LOGFILE config file option.
  • Fixed: Allow more than two characters in EPGsearch's "record" action (See bug report #286).
  • Changed: Join CACHE_TIMEOUT and AT_TIMEOUT to their minimum in CACHE_TIMEOUT.
  • Added: New buttons in EPG views to edit the EPG entry (Based on patch by Christoph Haubrich).
  • Added: New "--pid" vdradmind.pl to set the used pidfile.
  • Added: extended information in m3u file used for livetv streaming (Submitted by Samuli Sorvakko).
  • Changed: IMDb search URL can be modified.
  • Added: Optional user defined external search (Based on suggestion by Axel Röhken).
  • Fixed: Saving of wrong timer if repeating timers have no day set (= "-------").
  • Added: Record button to epgsearch result list if no timer is set.
  • Added: Support for epgsearch's timer checking.
  • Changed: Minimum required epgsearch release to 0.9.21.
  • Fixed: Disable EPG_DIRECT because it no longer works with the "lste" speedup patch.
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements.
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2007-01-25: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.3

  • Fixed: epgsearch's LSTT/DEFT commands need at least epgsearch v0.9.20.
  • Added: Klaus Schmidinger's "lste" speedup patch.
  • Changed: Do not send every HTTP header line in its own TCP packet (Speedup!).
  • Changed: Display error message if VDRAdmin-AM can't connect to VDR if index.html is requested.
  • Changed: Added warning in epgsearch edit if neither "title", "subtitle" nor "description" is checked.
  • Changed: Don't show recording commands drop-down if there are no reccmds.
  • Fixed: When sorting recordings by name, sort folders by name too.
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2006-12-08: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.2

  • Fixed canceling of "Do you really want to delete?" messages (Reported by KHG_AC @vdr-portal.de).
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2006-12-01: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.1

  • Minor bugfixes.
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2006-11-24: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.1beta

  • Added: epgsearches can be based on epgsearch's templates.
  • Bugfixes.
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2006-11-10: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.0

  • Minor bugfixes.
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2006-11-02: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.0rc

  • Minor bugfixes.
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2006-10-27: VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.0beta

  • Added: Support for epgsearch plugin; AutoTimer now considered deprecated and unsupported.
  • Added: script to convert existing AutoTimers to epgsearch (autotimer2searchtimer.pl).
  • Added: Hack for MSIE to always show vertical scroller to prevent horizontal scroller (Submitted by Udo Richter).
  • Minor bugfixes.
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2006-09-29: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.7

  • Added: Autosave now takes care of the number of lines to show in commands menu (Requested by Ronny Kornexl).
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2006-09-06: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.7beta

  • Fixed: Smaller bugs (see ChangeLog).
  • Changed: Hide select boxes for templates and skins if it contains only a single choice.
  • Fixed: Another fix for the refering pages problem(s).
  • Changed: Hide "AutoTimer" menu item unless $FEATURE{AUTOTIMER} is set.
  • Changed: Use date instead of empty subtitle in timers programed by AutoTimer with activated "Episode" option.
  • Fixed: Don't show outdated broadcast as search result.
  • Added: Display warning message if lists is empty.
  • Added: UTF8 locales patch by Zoolook (see Bug #124).
  • Fixed: AutoTimer test feature didn't find broadcasts if they were in vdradmind.done.
  • Removed: HTML::Template dependency.
  • Changed: Only use Template-Toolkit's Template.pm.
  • Fixed: Hide "switch" button in prog_summary2 if broadcast is not running (Based on suggestion by Hardy Flor).
  • Fixed: Initial display of rec_list was empty.
  • Added: New PLAY and EDIT actions in rec_list.
  • Added: Remember selected size and interval in TV.
  • Added: check for features available with VDR's SVDRP, disable missing ones and show them in about.html (ATM used for RENR).
  • Changed: handling of sorting in rec_list (should always keep the current sorting).
  • Changed: handling of sorting in at_timer_list (should always keep the current sorting).
  • New: option to autosave config on exit (also saves sorting state in lists and viewmode in prog_summary).
  • Added: Czech translation (Submitted by Karel Borkovec).
  • Changed: handling of sorting in timer_list (should always keep the current sorting).
  • Changed: Moved favicon.ico from a template's skin folder to the template's main folder.
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2006-07-14: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6

  • No changes.
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2006-07-11: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6rc2a

  • Fixed: "unknown URL" bug if "record" is clicked in prog_detail called from list of repeats (Reported by anso20030).
  • Added: Hilighting of row beneath mouse pointer in lists.
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2006-07-10: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6rc2

  • Reworked: Timeline (Submitted by Torsten Herz).
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2006-07-07: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6rc

  • Replaced: Makefiles by make.sh (run "./make.sh" for usage information).
  • Removed: LinVDR logo.
  • Changed: colors in timeline.
  • Fixed: layout problems in prog_summary detail view (Reported by Sven Soltau).
  • Fixed: moving forward/backward at the end/start of a month (Reported by foobar42).
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2006-06-30: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6beta5

  • Changed: "channels" column in timeline uses max 10% of available width.
  • Fixed: programming a timer in prog_detail in FireFox.
  • Fixed: HTML warnings.
  • Fixed: find repeatings containing "&" in prog_detail (Bug #0000104, Reported by hajo).
  • Changed: TV and remote control to better fit new "default" theme.
  • Fixed: correct sorting in prog_list2 selectbox at the end of a month (Reported by sirtobi).
  • Fixed: Extracting VDR version number.
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2006-06-26: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6beta4

  • Changed: CSS a little bit.
  • Rewrote: prog_timeline to make it more dynamic (needs JavaScript) (Submitted by Torsten Herz).
  • Changed: displaying of audio/video tracks in prog_details (Fixes weird EPG display behaviour).
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2006-06-23: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6beta3

  • Fixed: Crash in prog_detail if invalid EPG-ID (Bug #0000077, Reported by Reiner Buehl).
  • Fixed: Bug #0000034 (Reported by The Unknown).
  • Added: error page on internal vdradmind.pl errors.
  • Changed: access_log.
  • Removed: unused stuff in templates.
  • Fixed: quote special characters in "find repeatings" URL (Reported by Hans-Joachim Gurt).
  • Reworked: prog_timeline again (Fixes Bug #0000009, Reported by Georgius, Patch submitted by Torsten Herz).
  • Fixed: correct sorting in prog_list2 selectbox at the end of a month (Reported by sirtobi).
  • Changed: dates in prog_list2 selectbox now shows day and month (Requested by sirtobi).
  • Changed: Removed tabs in configuration menu.
  • Fixed: "Divide by 0" bug in prog_summary list view (Bug #0000072, Reported by djdagobert).
  • Changed: Place folders in rec_list at the top (Patch submitted by Frank Jepsen).
  • Fixed: Remember sorting after returning fom rec_rename (Bug #0000037, Reported by martind).
  • Fixed: Canceling rec_rename does no longer rename the recording (Bug #0000036, Reported by martind).
  • Fixed: VDRAdmin-AM didn't start if PID file was empty (Reported and fixed by Hirmke Michael).
  • Fixed: In prog_list2 starting time also works for other days.
  • Added: Icons to find repeatings and IMDb lookup in prog_list and prog_list2.
  • Added: Each AutoTimer can have its own start/stop margins (Requested by many people at vdrportal.de). NOTE: vdradmind.at format changed!
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2006-05-24: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6beta2

  • Added: VPS time, audio and video tracks to prog_detail if available.
  • Added: class names for action icons (info, record...) for hiding single items (not yet finished).
  • Added: ids for navigation items, see user.css_example for hiding single items.
  • Changed: Icons for stream and switch TV.
  • Replaced: "default" skin by "default.png" skin.
  • Added: Link from pattern title in AutoTimer list to AutoTimer edit (Requested by Tarandor).
  • Reworked: prog_timeline; still needs some beautification (Based on patch submitted by Torsten Herz).
  • Fixed: IMDb link in prog_summary listview (Reported by heiwil).
  • Fixed: detection of valid Locale::gettext calls.
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2006-05-19: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.6beta

  • Added: "next" shortcut in prog_summary to show events starting after the current event (Based on patch by Joachim).
  • Added: added selectbox in prog_summary to quickly show the epg at a given time (uses times configured in timeline config).
  • Added: list view in prog_summary which includes a graphical elapsed time representation (Based on patch by Joachim).
  • Added: selectbox in prog_list2 to quickly jump to a day's epg.
  • Reworked: prog_detail (incl. recording's details).
  • Changed: cleaned config menu.
  • Removed: "bilder" and "copper" theme".
  • Added: "default.png" theme (nice PNG images, extracted from KDE's Crystal icons).
  • Reworked: "default" theme (ugly GIF images, extracted and converted from KDE's kdeclassic icons).
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2006-05-18: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.5a

  • Fixed: install.sh problem due to reformated vdradmind.pl :( (Reported by several people).
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2006-05-12: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.5

  • Fixed: crash if /usr/bin/locale is a directory (Reported by pmeyers).
  • Changed: reformated vdradmind.pl using perltidy.
  • Fixed: Only sort by start time in prog_summary if it's a search result (Reported by Toxic-Tonic).
  • Fixed: install russian catalog (Reported by free-x).
  • Added: credits for russian translation to about menu.
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2006-04-28: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.5rc

  • Changed: request full "from" email address for sending emails instead of domain only (Requested by siryoda).
  • Changed: no red background for inactive timers in prog_timeline (Requested by Zimbo).
  • Changed: result of a search is ordered by the event's start time instead of channel id (Suggested by scorp).
  • Fixed: crashes when sending emails (Thanks to siryoda for testing).
  • Fixed: error page sets charset correct.
  • Added: russian translation (Thanks to Oleg Roitburd and Allrussian-forum translation team)
  • Fixed: lots of perl warnings.
  • Updated: localization, French is again up-to-date (Thanks to Trois Six).
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2006-04-07: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.4

  • Fixed: reccmds didn't run if recording contained special characters (Reported by Ronny Kornexl).
  • Fixed: remember "unlimited" number of lines to show in vdr_cmds (Reported by Ronny Kornexl).
  • Changed: set "help" as default in vdr_cmds SVDRP command (Requested by Ronny Kornexl).
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2006-03-30: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.4rc

  • Fixed: new TV grabbing introduced with beta2 (Many thanks to horchi for reporting and testing).
  • Changed: check if a timer to be programmed by an AutoTimer already exists (Requested by several people).
  • Added: display AutoTimer information in timer's edit view (Somehow requested by MarkusE).
  • Fixed: recordings/timers/autotimers containing double-quotes couldn't be deleted (Reported by The Unknown).
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2006-03-14: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.4beta2

  • Reworked TV grabbing.
  • Added optional parameters for TV for use with external tools: http://vdradmin-am.ip?aktion=tv_show&size=[full|half|quarter]&interval=[0|1|2|3|5|10|30|60]&tv_only=bla
  • Fixed program switching in prog_summary, prog_list and prog_detail (Based on suggestions by kayser).
  • New: buttons to move to previous/next day in timers_list (Requested by BigDiSt).
  • Moved "help" menu into "about" menu.
  • Added VDR's "commands.conf" conntent to select box in navigation menu.
  • Changed defaults for "autotimer checking" in timers as they had been in v3.4.3.
  • New button on remote controls: Mute (Requested by Rüdiger Jung and Hardy Flor).
  • Timeline in timer_list will show timers of current day even if a timer starts the day before (Reported by Hardy Flor).
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2006-03-08: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.4beta

  • Added script "convert.sh" to convert the AutoTimer information in VDR's timers.conf to the new format (see "convert.sh" for usage).
  • Use the summary/aux timer field to store AutoTimer information to be compatible to VDR v1.3.44 and later.
  • Removed "Add summary to new timers" option. The EPG summary is no longer copied to the timer's summary/aux field (for VDR 1.3.44+) or always copied (VDR 1.3.43-).
  • Made summary textfield readonly while adding/editing a timer.
  • Unless NO_EVENTID or NO_EVENTID_ON is used the EPG-ID is stored in every (auto)timer set using VDRAdmin-AM.
  • For every timer the current start/stop margins are saved in its summary/aux field. These are used for checking AutoTimers by time.
  • Fixed bug while checking for already programmed (auto)timers if not using EPG-ID.
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2006-03-01: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.3

  • *** THIS RELEASE IS NOT COMPATIBLE TO VDR >=1.3.44 ***
  • Show TV noise if grabbing fails (only VDR >= v1.3.38).
  • Fixed: don't crash (on LinVDR) if AutoTimer email notification is enabled but Net::SMTP is missing (Reported by Foobar42).
  • Fixed: testing an AutoTimer that is edited (not newly added) lead to a new AutoTimer instead of replacing the old one.
  • Don't show streaming button in prog_summary if event is currently not broadcasted (Requested by Hardy Flor).
  • Show search pattern in prog_summary instead of current time (Reported by Hardy Flor).
  • Send correct encoded emails for AutoTimer notifications (Thanks a lot to Ferdinand Grassmann for reporting/ideas/testing).
  • Do not program timers in the past (Reported by Ferdinand Grassmann).
  • Fixed "Length of base64 data not a multiple of 4" warning (Reported by Johan Larsson).
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2006-02-10: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.3rc3

  • Changed handling of refering pages; should work much better now.
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2006-02-06: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.3rc2

  • For timers that are checked by AutoTimer for start/stop times the broadcast's length must at least match 90% of the original timer's length (excluding before/behind buffers).
  • Reworked detection of already programmed AutoTimers and made it compatible to VDR v1.3.23+ (Based on suggestions by Jouni Karvo).
  • Don't crash if illegal characters are used for searching (Reported by foobar42).
  • Fixed error after progamming a timer if VDRAdmin is accessed through apache (Reported by speed).
  • If there were quotes in an AutoTimer's pattern and you clicked "test" the pattern got cleared (Reported by The_Pit).
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2006-01-17: VDRAdmin-AM v3.4.3rc

  • Changed program name to VDRAdmin-AM to make clear it's a fork of VDRAdmin.
  • Added "Help" and "About" to navigation bar at the left.
  • Hide "Record" button if prog_detail is opened from timer_list.
  • After clicking "Record" in prog_detail and leaving timer_new return to page where prog_detail has been opened (Reported by Ferdinand Grassmann).
  • Timers were re-programmed every CheckTimers() call if setup option "do not add summary to timers" is active (Reported by Ferdinand Grassmann).
  • Dropped sendEmail dependency. Now uses Net::SMTP modules (Patch by Ville Skyttä).
  • Don't show EPG images for other events (Fixed by Ferdinand Grassmann).
  • Changed GRAB so that it doesn't use temporary files for VDR >=1.3.38.
  • VPS for timers (Requested by reibuehl).
  • Made extension and mimetype for both live and recordings streaming configurable (Suggested at vdrportal.de).
  • Understand format of VDR v1.3.38+ "lste" command (Thanks to Marcus Breitenstein).
  • In skin "default": returning from timer_new didn't scroll to the line where "Rec" has been called in prog_list/prog_list2 (Reported by Foobar42)
  • Fixed installing of missing Perl modules.
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2005-12-06: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.4.2

  • Updated de, es and fi translation (got no response by fr translator).
  • Use the channel name as title if title in timer_new is empty (Requested by Hardy Flor).
  • Improved handling of dates reported by "lstr".
  • SMTPAuth for sendEmail.
  • Fixed: Programming a timer using InternetExplorer, didn't return to the previous page but gave an error (Reported by several people).
  • Remember sorting after (in)activating selected timers (Reported by Atti).
  • Updated Template-Toolkit to v2.13.
  • Reworked sorting in rec_list/timer_list/at_timer_list.
  • Activate/Inactivate selected timers in timers_list (Requested by Atti).
  • Event's title in prog_summary/prog_list/prog_list2 links to prog_detail (Requested by Scorp).
  • Added "Refresh" button in rec_list to refresh the cache of the list of recordings.
  • Fixed popup if deleting timers/recordings/autotimers containing a "'" (Reported by Saxman2k).
  • Remember sorting after deleteing or editing timer or autotimer (Reported by Atti).
  • Improved re-connect to VDR if VDRAdmin crashes.
  • Set "LANGUAGE" environment variable to "" on startup, so it causes no problems with language setting in VDRAdmin.
  • Added caching of listing of recordings. Can be adjusted by "CACHE_REC_TIMEOUT=number of minutes" in vdradmind.conf. Defaults to "60", "0" disables caching.
  • Remember sorting when toggling in timer or autotimer list.
  • New configuration option for Timers: don't add summary.
  • Email notification for AutoTimer can be set in configuration menu.
  • Optimized AutoTimer matching a little bit.
  • Reworked detection of another VDRAdmin process if pid file exists.
  • No more config settings that require a VDRAdmin restart.
  • Find "sendEmail" program in $PATH.
  • For VDR >=1.3.24 use VDR's timer flags for finding timers that are currently recording.
  • Fixed sendmail notification for AutoTimer.
  • If /usr/bin/locale is not available, language can be entered in textfield instead of chosing in selectbox.
  • Fixed wrong display of double quotes in timer_list and at_timer_list.
  • Fixed browsing in "recordings" menu (if there are folders having the same name).
  • Added new skin "default" (InternetExplorer has problems with displaying it).
  • Removed i18n.pl.
  • Localization can be set in configuration again.
  • Added "Transponder" and "CA-System" to tooltips in timer_list.
  • Show recording's summary and subtitle in rec_edit (Requested by BigDiSt).
  • Check for and shorten too long summary when programming timer.
  • Check for too long commands sent to SVDRPort.
  • Channel select box in TV.
  • "Test" button in AutoTimer edit for showing results of current settings (Requested by Hardy Flor).
  • Link from channel name in prog_list2 and timer_list to prog_list.
  • Bring popups to the front (e.g. help, prog_detail...) (Based on a patch submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Reuse existing TV, RC and help windows (Based on a patch submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Send vdradmin.m3u when streaming.
  • Tooltips in timer_list, prog_timeline and at_timer_list can be deactivated (Requested by Hardy Flor).
  • Fixed wrong HTML tags in rec_detail (Reported by foobar42).
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2005-10-04: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.4.1

  • Fixed some bugs:
    • Selected channel is remembered when editing AutoTimers (Reported by Scorp).
    • Recording streaming didn't work in some cases (Reported by several people @vdr-portal.de).
    • Recording commands didn't work in some cases (Reported by several people @vdr-portal.de).
    • Watch TV and remote control didn't work (Reported by several people @vdr-portal.de).
    • INFO button in prog_list2 didn't work.
    • Getting back from timer_new to prog_summary/prog_list/prog_list2 again scrolls to line with previously selected item (Reported by Scorp).
  • Updated translations.
  • Fixed some more HTMLtidy warnings.
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2005-09-23: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.4

  • Send valid "Expires" header (Submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Open failure of vdradmind.done reported wrong filename (Submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Deliver validated HTML (Reported by Ville Skyttä).
  • Display name of recordings/timers... that will be deleted (Requested by Richard Lithvall).
  • Channels list in AutoTimer only shows selected channels if selective channels are active for AT.
  • Added "chmod" for grabbed images of TV so that everyone can read/write the file (Submitted by Udo Richter).
  • Added "-d" argument to set the configuration folder (Submitted by Rene Bredlau).
  • Fixed handling for recording on February, 29th for VDR >=1.3.26 (Submitted by Rene Bredlau).
  • Alternativly use Locale::Messages if Locale::gettext not found (Submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed "send command" error message (Submitted by Ville Skyttä).
  • Display free disk size as float instead of integer (Submitted by Hardy Flor).
  • Step forward/backward a day in "Playing today" (Requested by Tüddelkopp)
  • Enable/disable selective channels in "Playing today" (Requested by Reiner Buehl)
  • Added images in prog_detail; needs external tool that provides these images; must be configured first! (Requested by several people)
  • Fixed display of login page (Reported by DrSat)
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2005-07-12: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.3

  • Fixed problems with "$" in templates (Reported by All-Ex).
  • Updated all help messages.
  • Added beautified tooltips in at_timer_list, timer_list and prog_timeline.
  • Changed saving of AutoTimer patterns: ":" -> "|" and "|" -> "\|".
  • Added support for user.css for overwriting style.css (Must be located in same folder as vdradmind.conf). See user.css.example.
  • Removed obsolete files (e.g. images).
  • Merged style.css and navi.css.
  • Reworked templates so that they use a lot of CSS (Tested using Konqueror 3.4.1, Firefox 1.0.4, Opera 8.0 and IE6).
  • Fixed programming timers with special summary when using EPG_DIRECT (timer didn't get programmed) (Thanks to HolgerAusB for giving vital hints).
  • Allow browsers to cache all files VDRAdmin sends, except "text/html". This should speed up VDRAdmin but changing the skin or css needs a "shift reload".
  • Added support for VDR v1.3.25's info.vdr (Submitted by vejoun).
  • Use localized date formates.
  • Now using "video/x-mpegurl" MIME type instead of "audio/x-mpegurl" for streaming (Suggested by stefan.h).
  • Added patches supplied by stefan.h:
    • Using EPG's subtitle when found for AutoTimer else " " (that's the VDR way).
    • New config option VDRVFAT to find recordings if VDR has been compiled with or without VFAT define.
  • Fixed calling reccmds on recordings in subdirs, manual recordings (@rectitle) and repeating timer's recordings without episode title.
  • Fixed streaming of manual recordings (@rectitle) and repeating timer's recordings without episode title.
  • VDRAdmin-AM now uses the required charsets setting in templates, so no need to write "&xyz;" things in .po files.
  • Reworked templates to make better use of CSS (for example: timeline colours can be set by style.css).
  • EPG_PRUNE now is the number of channels to fetch from VDR (had been one too less before).
  • Added "install.sh" and "uninstall.sh" ("./install.sh -h" for help) (Requested by several people).
  • Made "name" columns in lists wrapping again (Reported by vejoun).
  • Deleting a single recording works again (Reported by vejoun).
  • Fixed streaming of recordings in subdirs (Reported by vejoun).
  • Added missing gray sign on deactivated AutoTimers (Reported by vejoun).
  • Various other minor fixes.
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2005-05-12: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.2

  • Added "make uninstall" to remove VDRAdmin from your system if you have installed it using "make install". Please always use this before you install a new release!
  • Fixed programming of repeating timers when day is "D" (Thanks to "maxkr" for reporting this).
  • Print date in prog_list & prog_list2 in system's locale. Please comment!
  • More transparent "selected channels" usage.
  • Added reccmds.conf content to rec_list (needs valid VDRCONFDIR in vdradmind.conf).
  • AutoTimers can now be limited to certain weekdays (Patch submitted by Magnus Schmidt).
  • Streaming can be turn on/off for live viewing and recordings viewing (Based on code submitted by Tobias Grimm).
  • Added streaming button to prog_list2.
  • Fixed handling of incorrect start/stop times in AutoTimer.
  • Changed localisation to use gettext() (Thanks to Tobias Grimm for doing most of the needed work).
  • Language can no longer be set in VDRAdmin, it's taken from your system's setting. Issue "export LANG=<language code>" if you need to change it, where <language code> is one of "de_DE", "en_EN", "es_ES", "fi_FI" or "fr_FR".
  • Added Finnish i18n (Submitted by Rolf Ahrenberg).
  • Fixed ":" & "|" handling in timer's directory (Thanks "vejoun").
  • Added links to prog_list on channels in at_timer_list and timer_list.
  • Added IMDb lookup button to recording's detail view.
  • Added "Priority" and "Lifetime" tooltip to at_timer_list and timer_list (point mouse to timer's name).
  • Small changes for streaming recordings: Please update your vdradmind.conf (VIDEODIR & ST_VIDEODIR)!
  • Non-LinVDR logo on non-LinVDR machines (Posted by Unimatrix0 at vdrportal.de).
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2005-04-12: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.1

  • Updated Spanish i18n (Thanks to Rüdiger Jung).
  • Added VDR Admin man-page (Thanks to Thomas Schmidt).
  • Improved detection of another running vdradmind.pl at startup (if vdradmind.pid is found but pid is not a vdradmind.pl vdradmin will start anyway).
  • Added IMDb lookup button in prog_detail (Suggested by Marcus).
  • Use configured Streamdev port for live streaming.
  • Added warning when using EPG_DIRECT.
  • Updated INSTALL file.
  • Renamed i18n Español to Spanish (Requested by Rüdiger Jung).
  • Fixed ":" & "|" handling in timer's title and summary (Thanks to Der_Pit for pointing me to that).
  • Added "Select all" to timer/autotimer/recordings list.
  • Exchanged priority and lifetime textfields in config.html to match order used at other places (Requested by Rüdiger Jung).
  • Added vdradmin-0.95-0.9pre5-email.diff (Author: blafasel) patch: send email on timers added by AutoTimer (needs sendEmail).
  • Fixed timer add/edit where date got set wrong in case it has been entered as "yyyy-mm-dd".
  • Fixed problems when using MOD_GZIP (Thanks Ville Skyttä).
  • Fixed Makefile once again (Thanks Zzam for pointing me to this).
  • Added patches submitted by stefan.h (Thanks!):
    • New config option EPG_PRUNE. You can set a channel number up to which VDRAdmin will read EPG. Might reduce memory usage and read-in time. Set to "0" to read all channels.
    • Optimizations and bug fixes.
  • Added install files for Debian (Thanks to Steffen Oberle for requesting and troubleshooting).
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2005-04-04: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM3.0

  • Reworked updating of channels and EPG from VDR.
  • Fixed displaying of repeating timers.
  • Fixed Makefile to set "$SEARCH_FILES_IN_SYSTEM = 1" on install.
  • Added Spanish i18n (Submitted by Rüdiger Jung)
  • Updated French i18n (Submitted by "Trois Six", "map" and "lobotomise")
  • Fixed some buttons to work with long translations.
  • Extracted text from templates and moved them to i18n.pl file and moved the i18n.pl files to new folders i18n/$language, resulting in a single template with two skins (bilder & copper). Makes translations and template modification a lot more easier.
  • Included patches submitted by Ville Skyttä:
    • vdradmin-01-req-zlib.patch: Make Compress::Zlib really optional.
    • vdradmin-02-defaultconfig.patch: Use preset values from %CONFIG as defaults in --config.
    • vdradmin-03-errstr.patch: Fix error string output.
    • vdradmin-04-spelling.patch: Various trivial spelling and phrasing improvements.
    • vdradmin-05-askconf.patch: Allow unattended "vdradmind.pl --config < /dev/null".
    • vdradmin-08-writeconfig.patch: Always write config using WriteConfig().
    • vdradmin-10-exitcodes.patch: Don't exit with status code 0 if something's wrong.
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2005-03-30: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM2c

  • Fixed French translation.
  • Handle "VPS" in timer listing.
  • Automatic programmed timers have their summary hyperlink back. (Reported by sn123py)
  • Fixed directory handling in auto_timer:
    • If a "%" (variable) is found you are fully responsible for the final recording's title, e.g. you must add %Title% if you want it (other vars: %Title%, %Subtitle%, %Director%, %Date%, %Category%, %Genre%, %Year%, %Country%, %Originaltitle%, %FSK%, %Episode% and %Rating%)
    • All "/" will be replaced by "~" (before variable substitution)
  • Fixed forgotten items with "vdradmin-0.96_For_vdr-1.3_StoreAutotimerChannelID_And_EventIdCheckDisable.diff".
  • Fixed handling of MTWTFSS@date in timer (edit & list).
  • Fixed handling of new recordings if VDR is patched with Wareagle-Icons patch (Reported at vdrportal.de).
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2005-03-23: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM2b

  • Added French template (Submitted by Trois Six)
  • Fixed English/i18n.pl
  • Removed all "bilder" and "copper" folders in all templates except "Deutsch" and replaced them by links to the folders in "Deutsch".
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2005-03-22: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM2a

  • Fixed Volume+ and Volume- in TV (Reported by Unimatrix0)
  • Fixed missplaced channel name prog_summary (Reported by several people)
  • Added updated English templates (Supplied by C.Y.M)
  • Now VDRAdmin understands timers format from vdr1.3.22- and vdr1.3.23 (Supplied by Stefan Neuwirth)
  • Fixed small display problem in timeline.
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2005-03-21: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM2

  • Reworked all german templates and simplified them when possible.
  • TV and remote template's remote control now looks identical.
  • Reworked summary display of recordings.
  • Summary editbox preserves linefeeds while editing timers.
  • Added stream button in prog_summary (suggested by Unimatrix0)
  • fix for timers.conf of vdr1.3.23+ (Submitted by Stefan Neuwirth)
  • Added/Updated patches:
    • vdradmin-0.96_For_vdr-1.3_StoreAutotimerChannelID_And_EventIdCheckDisable.diff (posted at the VDR mailinglist by Rantanen Teemu)
    • vdradmin-0.96_OneShot_Timers_English_Only.diff and merged it to "Deutsch" template (posted at the VDR mailinglist by Rantanen Teemu)
    • included changes from vdradmin-0.96-3-ctvdr-1 (Author: c't Magazin).
    • Localnet Patch; no password request if client ip in given ip range (Author: Roland Behme / Submitted by Reiner Buehl)
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2005-03-06: VDRAdmin-0.97-AM1 initial release

  • This is mainly the lastest vdradmin (v0.97) with different patches applied:
    • vdradmin-0.97 has been taken from linvdr-0.7
    • xpix's BigPatch_0.9pre5 (ported from vdradmin-0.95 to vdradmin-0.97 (Author: xpix)
    • included changes from vdradmin-0.95-ct-10 (Author: c't Magazin)
    • included vdradmin-0.95_0.9_pre5_fb1.diff (Author: sn123py)
    • included vdradmin-0.96-rename.diff which also needs an applied "vdr-aio21_svdrprename.patch" patch (Author: slime)

  • My own changes:
    • included missing "Was läuft heute?" template (found at www.vdr-portal.de)
    • fixed some rendering problems with "New Timer" and "New Autotimer" on KDE's Konqueror
    • Beautified recordings listing (at least in my eyes ;-)
    • Added "Size" selectbox to TV template

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