VDR patches

settime: Patch to set the system time using sudo
osdteletext-speedup: Patch that speeds up osdteletext 0.4.2
Cuttime-Patch: Patch for VDR that corrects the start time on cutting
Custom services: Patch to backport the Custom Services before VDR 1.3.30
Shutdown patch: Rewrite of the shutdown code for VDR 1.5.x
Hard Link Cutter: Fast editing of VDR recordings using hard links
DVB API wrapper: Wrapper for using Multiproto/S2API VDR on old DVB drivers
TS Play: Patch to play VDR-1.7.x TS recordings in VDR-1.6.x
Bandwidth-Limit: Patch to priorize the available bandwidth of FF DVB cards

A patch to set the system time using sudo. Originally developed by Baltasar at VDR Portal for VDR 1.2.x versions.
This patch is not necessary since VDR 1.3.38 offers the -u option.

2005-01-113kbsettime-1.3.18.diff: for VDR version 1.3.18 - 1.3.25+
2005-01-113kbsettime-1.3.17-poison.diff: for VDR version 1.3.17 with threadsafe-poison patches
2004-07-173kbsettime-1.3.11.diff: for VDR version 1.3.11

This patch speeds up the display code of the osdteletext plugin. Due to my slow machine and the not very straight forward code of osdteletext, page rendering took 0.740s for me. By rewriting, this improves dramatically, giving a much better response time of osdteletext.

2005-03-179kbosdteletext-0.4.2-speedup-2.diff: Speeds up 4.3 times compared to vanilla 1.4.2
2005-03-082kbosdteletext-0.4.2-speedup-1.diff: Speeds up 1.9 times compared to vanilla 1.4.2

Note: osdteletext-0.5.0 already includes these improvements.

This patch modifies the cutting process, so that the start time of the cutted recording matches the time of the cut-in, instead of just using the same start time of the original recording. If a recording starts at 19:55, and the first 5 minutes get cut away, the cutted recording will have a start time of 20:00.
As a side effect, this allows to easily cut a recording into several pieces, as each piece will have a different start time and will not overwrite the last part.

VDR Wiki

- VDR Wiki

2009-01-262kbcuttime-vdr-1.7.3.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.3
2006-05-142kbcuttime-vdr-1.4.0.diff: Initial patch, for VDR-1.4.0, may also work for other versions

The 'Custom Services' functions were introduced in VDR 1.3.30 to support plugin-to-plugin communications. This archive contains back-ports of these functions for plugins that want to use this feature, but dont want to drop compatibility to pre-1.3.30 versions of VDR.

2005-08-219kbcustomservices-backport-1.0.tgz: Initial Release

The program code for automatic and manual shut down and for automatic restarts for timer recordings is in VDR 1.4.x very complex and error-prone, and behaves strange in some situations. With Klaus' permission I am working on a re-implementation for the upcoming 1.5.x developer builds of VDR. This is the current working version as patch for 1.4.x.

2007-03-0450kbvdr-1.5.1-shutdown-rewrite-1.1.diff: Fix shutdown after timer, for 1.5.1
2007-03-0450kbvdr-1.5.0-shutdown-rewrite-1.1.diff: Fix shutdown after timer, for 1.5.0
2007-03-0450kbvdr-1.4.5-shutdown-rewrite-1.1.diff: Fix shutdown after timer, for 1.4.5
2007-02-2550kbvdr-1.5.0-shutdown-rewrite-1.0.diff: Final patch, for VDR 1.5.0; Almost identical to the version that is part of VDR 1.5.1; Changed some identifier names, changed cRemote::LastActivity() from relative to absolute!; Replaced cThread::EmergencyExit, except for backwards compatibility; ISREALKEY macro to check whether a key is user-generated; Slightly changed signal handling
2007-02-2550kbvdr-1.4.5-shutdown-rewrite-1.0.diff: Final patch, adapted to VDR 1.4.5
2007-02-1847kbvdr-1.5.0-shutdown-rewrite-0.4.diff: Fourth patch, for VDR 1.5.0; Shutdown on playback without confirm; New: Shutdown.ConfirmRestart() (from setup menu); Do a restart on SIGHUP if nothing serious blocks; i18n strings added; cShutdown manages Exit, EmergencyExit and ErrorLevel
2007-02-1847kbvdr-1.4.5-shutdown-rewrite-0.4.diff: Fourth patch, adapted to VDR 1.4.5
2007-01-2837kbvdr-1.5.0-shutdown-rewrite-0.3.diff: Third patch, for VDR 1.5.0; Shutdown command called with /dev/null as stdin, and with plugin name; Merged SystemExecSession with SystemExec from thread.c; #define PATCH_SHUTDOWN_REWRITE for detecting; updated newplugin / PLUGINS.html / INSTALL
2007-01-2837kbvdr-1.4.5-shutdown-rewrite-0.3.diff: Third patch, adapted to VDR 1.4.5
2007-01-1030kbvdr-1.5.0-shutdown-rewrite-0.2.diff: Second patch, for VDR 1.5.0; Implements 2x power button style; Plugin-Interface for task schedulers
2007-01-1030kbvdr-1.4.5-shutdown-rewrite-0.2.diff: Second patch, adapted to VDR 1.4.5
2006-12-2722kbvdr-1.4.4-shutdown-rewrite-0.1.diff: Initial patch; Introduces 5-minute countdown warning

The hard link cutter patch changes the recording editing algorithms of VDR to use filesystem hard links to 'copy' recording files whenever possible to speed up editing recordings noticeably.

For now, the hard link cutter patch CAN NOT be ported to VDR-1.7.32, because the new editing code modifies almost all files.

VDR Wiki

2012-08-2628kbvdr-1.7.29-hlcutter-0.2.3.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.29 - VDR-1.7.31
2012-04-0228kbvdr-1.7.27-hlcutter-0.2.3.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.27+ (thx Ville Skyttä); Finnish translation (thx Ville Skyttä); German translation
2011-12-0523kbvdr-1.7.22-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.22+ (thx Ville Skyttä)
2010-04-0523kbvdr-1.7.14-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.14-VDR-1.7.19, and VDR-1.7.21+
2010-08-1923kbvdr-1.7.20-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.20
2010-01-1623kbvdr-1.7.11-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.11-VDR-1.7.13
2009-06-1423kbvdr-1.7.6-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.6-VDR-1.7.10; Adaption to GCC-4.4, thx to Ville Skyttä
2009-06-1423kbvdr-1.7.4-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to GCC-4.4, thx to Ville Skyttä
2009-06-1423kbvdr-1.6.0-2-tsplay-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to tsplay-patch; Adaption to GCC-4.4, thx to Ville Skyttä
2009-06-1422kbvdr-1.5.13-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adaption to GCC-4.4, thx to Ville Skyttä
2009-01-2623kbvdr-1.7.4-hlcutter-0.2.1.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.4 (experimental); Support for TS recordings with up to 65535 files and up to 1TB per file
2008-01-1322kbvdr-1.5.13-hlcutter-0.2.0.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.5.13
2008-01-1222kbvdr-1.5.12-hlcutter-0.2.0.diff: New: Experimental support for multiple /videoXX folders; Fix: Editing fails if there's no final cut-out
2008-01-1222kbvdr-1.4.7-hlcutter-0.2.0.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.4.7
2007-09-0118kbvdr-1.5.9-hlcutter-0.1.4.diff: New: Minimal adaptions to VDR-1.5.9
2007-08-0418kbvdr-1.5.5-hlcutter-0.1.4.diff: New: Dynamic increase of file size before running out of xxx.vdr files; Fix: Last edit mark is not a cout-out; Fix: Write error if link-copied file is smaller than allowed file size; Fix: Broken index/marks if cut-in is at the start of a new file; Fix: Clear dangeling pointer to free'd cUnbufferedFile, thx to Matthias Schwarzott
2007-03-1714kbvdr-1.5.1-hlcutter-0.1.diff: First patch, very experimental, for VDR 1.3.42 - 1.5.1; NOT TESTED for multiple /videoxx folders!

This patch adds backwards compatibility support for VDR 1.5.14 and VDR 1.7.x for the not longer supported old DVB API without Multiproto / S2API support.

2013-03-3112kbvdr-2.0.0-s2apiwrapper-light-0.10.diff: New: API emulation from DVB API 5.0 to DVB API 5.8; New: Runtime API check to avoid unsupported commands; Fix: Fails to do EPG on DVB-S2 since 1.7.40
2012-12-024kbvdr-1.7.32-s2apiwrapper-light-0.9.diff: Light wrapper, only supports DVB API starting with V5.0; Fix: Compatibility to VDR-1.7.32
2012-02-1920kbvdr-1.7.24-s2apiwrapper-0.8.diff: Fix: Compatibility to VDR-1.7.24
2012-01-1520kbvdr-1.7.23-s2apiwrapper-0.8.diff: New: DVB-API 5.3 emulation for 3.0-5.2 APIs, for VDR-1.7.23
2011-09-1120kbvdr-1.7.21-s2apiwrapper-0.7.diff: Fix: Compatibility to VDR-1.7.21
2010-12-2520kbvdr-1.7.13-s2apiwrapper-0.7.diff: New: Optional direct output of TS data for FF-SD (needs firmware); Fix: Compile using DVBv5 headers
2010-06-2616kbvdr-1.7.13-s2apiwrapper-0.6.diff: New: Auto-detect S2API at runtime and switch between DVB-V3 API and S2API; New: --dvbapi=3 and --dvbapi=5 for manual switching of API version
2010-04-0514kbvdr-1.7.13-s2apiwrapper-0.5.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.13-VDR-1.7.15+
2010-01-1614kbvdr-1.7.11-s2apiwrapper-0.5.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.11-VDR-1.7.12
2010-01-1614kbvdr-1.7.10-s2apiwrapper-0.5.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.10
2008-12-2513kbvdr-1.7.4-s2apiwrapper-0.5.diff: Adaption to VDR-1.7.4-VDR-1.7.9; Uses TsToPes for TS playback instead of sending TS directly to the DVB driver; VDR-1.7.4+ will require the PlayTs patch for TsToPes to work.
2008-12-254kbvdr-1.7.4-playts.diff: Fix VDR-1.7.4-1.7.8 TsToPes compatibility repacker
2008-12-2513kbvdr-1.7.2-s2apiwrapper-0.5.diff: Switch from Multiproto to S2API for VDR-1.7.2
2008-09-0723kbvdr-1.7.1-dvb-api-wrapper-0.4.diff: Updated for VDR-1.7.1
2008-05-2223kbvdr-1.7.0-multiproto-update-dvb-api-wrapper-0.4.diff: Based on VDR-1.7.0 with multiproto-update.diff; Runtime switching to multiproto API, if available
2008-04-1323kbvdr-1.7.0-dvb-api-wrapper-0.3.diff: Update for VDR 1.7.0, Fix default modulation
2008-02-222kbvdr-1.5.15-channel-parser-multiproto-compatibility-0.1.diff: Channels.conf parser patch to allow VDR 1.5.x-1.6.x to read the channels.conf from VDR 1.7.
2008-02-0422kbvdr-1.5.14-dvb-api-wrapper-0.2a.diff: Fix for certain kernel versions
2008-02-0322kbvdr-1.5.14-dvb-api-wrapper-0.2.diff: Rewritten improved version
2008-01-2710kbvdr-1.5.14-dvb-api-wrapper-0.1.diff: First release

This patch allows VDR-1.6.0 to use TS recordings from VDR-1.7.x. Playback and editing of recordings in SD resolution should work. Recordings are still done in PES format.

Plays back TS recordings in SD resolution
HD recordings may work depending on output plugin
Can edit TS recordings
Records to old PES format, fully compatible to VDR-1.6.0
No recording to TS possible, sorry.
Supports >4GB and >255 files for TS recordings
No frame rate support, assumes 25fps
Implements TS device interface for output plugins
Working TS to PES repacker
Hybrid index file support. No conversion to/from old format as VDR-1.7 does.

2010-06-0384kbvdr-1.6.0-2-tsplay-0.2.diff: New: Backported improvements from current VDR-1.7; New: Presence-check using define TSPLAY_PATCH_VERSION; New: streamdev-cvs supports tsplay (Thx to Frank Schmirler); New: xlineliboutput-cvs supports tsplay
2009-06-1478kbvdr-1.6.0-2-tsplay-0.1.diff: First experimental version
2009-06-1423kbvdr-1.6.0-2-tsplay-hlcutter-0.2.2.diff: Adapted version of the Hard Link Cutter patch
2009-06-1422kbvdr-jumpplay-1.0-1.6.0-2-tsplay.diff: Adapted version of the JumpPlay patch

This patch limits on full featured DVB cards the bandwidth of video playback, because the card cannot play back and record a high bandwidth channel at the same time. Instead, after reaching a configurable bandwidth (Setup -> DVB -> FF DVB Bandwidth Limit (kbit)), the playback is first limited to I-frames then to audio only and finally completely suspended, so that a parallel recording is not interrupted. First tests showed good results at a bandwidth of 14000-15000.

This patch is still under testing!! VDR-1.7 will follow!

2010-02-139kbvdr-1.6.0-bandwidthlimit-0.1.diff: First experimental version

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