Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3
- Added daemon mode to allow background acquisition without GUI. Added
new command line options -daemon and -acqpassive
- Signal HUP can now be used to toggle acquisition on and off (with GUI
only; the daemon terminates when acquisition is disabled). Before, the
signal used to disable acquisition only.
- Fix: catch death of acquisition slave process (i.e. after deadly
signal) and mark acquisition as disabled in the master process.
While here, clean it up a bit:
don't install to X11BASE
buildlink'ify
homepage moved
archive is downloadable, remove NO_SRC_ON_FTP
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.6.0:
- Possibility to invoke user-defined external commands from the context
menu in the browser listbox, e.g. to program a timer for
the selected programme in a scheduler like plan.
- Dump of programme list or selected programme descriptions into a
file in HTML format, from where they can be loaded by any
WWW browser. This may be of interest for people who want to print
out TV schedules onto dead trees.
- New text search option Match full to allow exact title matches,
e.g. a search for "heute" will no longer match on "heute journal"
when full match is enabled.
- Alphabetically sorted series list in the filter menu.
Changes since 0.5.1:
- bugfix programme listbox: the network filter did not follow xawtv channel
changes. Thanks to Werner Renhardt (werner at kangaroo.at)
- bugfix cyclic acquisition (bug was introduced in 0.5.1): expired programmes
were not counted for acquisition statistics, hence sometimes the acq engine
did not detect when the database was complete and did not move on to the
next provider.
Changes from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1
- monitor the _XAWTV_STATION property on the xawtv window and VPS/PDC (during
EPG acquisition) to detect channel changes (new source module epgui/xawtv.c;
communication with xawtv is now done directly via X11 calls, and no longer
uses the xawtv-remote utility)
- after a channel change, optionally set the programme listing's cursor on
the programme currently running on this channel and/or display the programme
title and running time information inside xawtv, either in a popup, as
overlay (requires xfree4 and the XVideo extension) or window title message.
- improved handling of the network name configuration dialog by addition of
a "Closest match in xawtv" button.
- fix: during refresh, the cursor now remains on the same start time and network
- fix: short info text view is no longer set to line 1.0 during every update
- fix: possible crash due to reference to freed memory when acq timescale
popup was open & bad reception (block discarded due to parity errors)
- fix: in cyclic or follow-ui acquisition modes when acquisition was forced
passive on a non-provider channel (e.g. by a busy video device) acq control
did not automatically switch to active when the device was freed.
- fix: network name configuration: name selection from the provider listbox
was handled incorrectly for networks which were not covered by all providers,
so that another than the selected name was actually used.
- added support for multi-network channel names (e.g. [Arte / Kinderkanal])
to network name configuration: split xawtv station names around '/' and
use all resulting segments for matching with Nextview network names.
- added support for Turkish charset in national option table; 6 characters
which are not in latin-1 are replaced by their ASCII counterparts.
- fixed two memory leaks in the EPG scan and wrong handling of the EPG MIP
entry, which slowed down the scan on several channels.
- changed Makefile.win32 to use gcc/mingw32 for compilation. The supplied
Tcl/Tk libraries are compiled with gcc too (on NT using cygwin)
- The main window is now vertically resizable. The proportions of
the program listbox and the info text can be adjusted with a
"panning" button (slider).
- Added a button called "Tune TV" in the main window to
remote-control xawtv (UNIX only).
- Added network name configuration dialog to synchronize names with
the .xawtv configuration file and to allow consistant
network naming across all providers.
- Allow using channel assignments in .xawtv to speed up the EPG
scan (UNIX only).
- Added "Update filter shortcut" dialog to the filter menu to
simplify changing existing shortcuts.
- Made handling of filter shortcut dialog fool-proof.
- Added filter settings description to the shortcut configuration
dialog. Removed the filter combination checkboxes (were disabled
anyway).
- Added acquisition mode "external" for Composite/S-Video input
source (or unknown win32 tuner types). Win32: suppressed
obsolete acq mode "passive".
- Fixed command line option -rcfile for Win32: backslash chars in
path vanished.
- Restructured software to simplify reuse as library in other
projects.
This update was contributed by Mario Kemper in PR pkg/12717.
