Re: [vdr] Epgsearch mysteries

2013-04-05 Thread Christian Wieninger
her bug that resets matchLimit.. If I set matchLimit=100 inside the function, it works as expected if your patch is installed. 5.4.2013 0.32 "Christian Wieninger" mailto:cwienin...@gmx.de>> kirjoitti: Hi, probably the following co

Re: [vdr] Epgsearch mysteries

2013-04-04 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, probably the following code is the reason for this behaviour: epgsearchtools.c: // last try with Levenshtein Distance, only compare the first 1000 chars double fMatch = FuzzyMatch(eDescr, rDescr, 1000); double tmp_matchlimit = matchLimit/100.0; if(maxLength - minLength < 5) {

Re: [vdr] Betr: vdr-plugin-epgsearch-git failes to build

2012-10-17 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, are you sure you are using the current git? It already contains the following: |#if APIVERSNUM < 10728 cReplayControl::SetRecording(recording->FileName(), recording->Title()); #else cReplayControl::SetRecording(recording->FileName()); #endif return osReplay; se

Re: [vdr] Epgsearch not avoiding repeats

2011-10-31 Thread Christian Wieninger
fferent ones. Better double recordings than no recordings ;-) cheers, Christian Apologies for my daft mistake confusing the word "exert" with "excerpt" :-/ --- On Sun, 30/10/11, Christian Wieninger wrote: From: Christian Wieninger Subject: Re: [vdr] Epgsearch not avoiding rep

Re: [vdr] Epgsearch not avoiding repeats

2011-10-30 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Stuart, please turn on the log file with '-v 2' and have a look at epgsearch.log to see what's going on. cheers, Christian Am 29.10.2011 23:43, schrieb Stuart Morris: Hi Since upgrading to Epgsearch 1.0 I'm getting lots of repeat recordings. Please can anyone suggest what could be wrong

Re: [vdr] Blocking svdrp with epgsearch-1.0.0

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Wieninger
blem? Does it work when you disable epgsearch? cheers, Christian Am 18.10.2011 20:25, schrieb Rainer Blickle: I attached the logfile (with -v 3). I have taken a look on it, but nothing found. 2011/10/18 Christian Wieninger: Hi Rainer, there were no significant changes in SVDRP handling bet

Re: [vdr] Blocking svdrp with epgsearch-1.0.0

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Rainer, there were no significant changes in SVDRP handling between these versions. Did you set the correct (same as VDR) SVDRP port in epgsearchs setup? Please start epgsearch with the parameters "-v 2" to generate an epgsearch.log file in epgsearchs configuration directory. cheers, Christ

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epgsearch-1.0.0

2011-09-11 Thread Christian Wieninger
Am 11.09.2011 22:22, schrieb Dominic Evans: Christian, On 11 September 2011 19:37, Christian Wieninger wrote: it's time for a new release. I'm quite happy with the current state, so I decided to place a '1' in front of the version :-) Congrats on the new release! Chang

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epgsearch-1.0.0

2011-09-11 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, it's time for a new release. I'm quite happy with the current state, so I decided to place a '1' in front of the version :-) Because of the big distance to the last release the history is quite long. So I just put a link to it here: http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/HISTORY Have f

Re: [vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak

2011-09-07 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Tim, I think it's time to make a new release, anyway. So I will come up with a 0.9.25 ( or a 1.0.0? - allways wanted to have one *g*) in the next few days. cheers, Christian Am 07.09.2011 13:18, schrieb Tim: Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, um 22:38:32 schrieb Christian Wieninger

Re: [vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak

2011-08-21 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, @Tobi: many thanks, worked like a charm! @Richard: I've found a big leak besides some smaller ones and fixed them in the git. So please give it a try and let me know if it workes for you now. Cheers, Christian Am 21.08.2011 10:58, schrieb Tobi: On 21.08.2011 10:26, Christian Wien

Re: [vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak

2011-08-21 Thread Christian Wieninger
help and a great plugin! cheers Richard On 20/08/2011 14:02, Christian Wieninger wrote: Hi Richard, unfortunately I'm not aware of any leaks, if so I would have fixed them ;) Perhaps you can find out in which circumstances the memory usage increases. Candidates are: - search timer updates

Re: [vdr] Can VDR record only new episodes of shows?

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Am 03.06.2011 16:43, schrieb JJussi: Other recording question: 1. If I make EPG record search pattern: Regexp '.*' --> it will find all programs. (As it should!) 2. If I add to that 1. search "Type Movie/Drama" --> it will not find any programs, even I can see from EPG that there is Movie

Re: [vdr] [patch] pin & epgsearch plugins compatibility

2011-01-09 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Jiri, thanks for the patch. I just lost track about the pin patch ;-) I've just added it to the git and uploaded a new beta too. Cheers, Christian Am 08.01.2011 23:31, schrieb jdo...@centrum.cz: Hello all, I found that pin & epgsearch plugins are not compatible if it is compiled on 1.7.16

Re: [vdr] projects.vdr-developer.org - Domain down!

2010-11-15 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, > In addition to http://andreas.vdr-developer.org/, http://winni.vdr-developer.org/ and http://streamdev.vdr-developer.org/ are also missing. Is there any news on when they will be back? the subdomains are back again. Thanks to Thomas for fixing the problem. Cheers, Christian

Re: [vdr] EPGSearch doesn't avoid repeats anymore?

2010-11-11 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Dom, Am 11.11.2010 14:35, schrieb Dominic Evans: Hi Christian, On 10 November 2010 22:20, Christian Wieninger wrote: well, the intended behaviour was: setting 'if present': two events match if both have non empty episode names that match. If not, the events are handled as

Re: [vdr] EPGSearch doesn't avoid repeats anymore?

2010-11-10 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, well, the intended behaviour was: setting 'if present': two events match if both have non empty episode names that match. If not, the events are handled as different, resulting in more eventually double recordings. setting 'Yes': the match is achieved if the episode names match, also if bo

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-07 Thread Christian Wieninger
Am 07.07.2010 20:54, schrieb Timothy D. Lenz: The KOLD is encrypted ah, ok - so VDR is not able to tune to it. epgsearch checks for each timer if it cannot be recorded, what usually happens if there's a conflict. As a side effect this also detects timers with other problems. So, you are righ

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-06 Thread Christian Wieninger
ue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: detach stopping timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: add pending timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: attach starting timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: check time Thu 15.07. 22:01 - done Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: create conflict list - done Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: result of conflict check f

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-04 Thread Christian Wieninger
hat ever is off that causes that is likely also what is causing the OSD notices of timer conflict when there is none. Also, when in an OSD menu, the timers are listed on the right with text2skin/engima and below that it also says timer conflict. On 6/29/2010 2:11 PM, Christian Wieninger wrote: H

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-06-29 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Am 29.06.2010 20:36, schrieb Timothy D. Lenz: The problem is, it doesn't properly change the entry. This is the summary for the timer as it first sets up: 90 - KGUNCastle127856154012785652608518498 And just changing the channel, it does this: 1849806060 This "" entry is just fo

Re: [vdr] Vdr 1.7.15 and vdradmin

2010-06-20 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Am 19.06.2010 19:44, schrieb Teemu Rantanen: Hi, there is a bug in epgsearch which leaks file descriptors if epgsearch cannot connect to the SVDRP port. Everything works well for a while until all file descriptor slots are in use and process cannot open any file anymore. Then VDR will ei

Re: [vdr] epgsearch umlauts

2010-06-19 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, epgsearch adds the timers via SVDRP. Perhaps there's is something broken? Please try to add a timer with svdrpsend.pl and check the result. Regards, Christian Am 19.06.2010 10:33, schrieb Ralf Schmitt: Hi, This is my setup vdr 1.7.15 epgsearch 0.9.25.beta16 locale en_US.UTF-8 Recording

Re: [vdr] Vdr 1.7.15 and vdradmin

2010-06-15 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, vdr-1.7.15 uses a new default port 6419 for SVDRP. vdradmin and epgsearch must be configured to the new port. BR, Christian Am 15.06.2010 16:59, schrieb Seppo Ingalsuo: Hi, Has anyone noticed problems with vdradmin-am, epgsearch and new vdr 1.7.15? Since upgrade from vdr 1.7.14 VDRadm

Re: [vdr] epgsearch 0.9.24 conflict check problem??

2010-06-03 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, hmm, strange - I'm not aware of any changes there. But, great if it works now :) If not, please provide some logs at level 3 (-P'epgsearch -v 3') BR, Christian Am 03.06.2010 02:53, schrieb Simon Baxter: Have just upgraded vdr-1.6.0 to epgsearch plugin version 0.9.25.beta16 because of a

Re: [vdr] SVDRP Port

2010-03-04 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, epgsearch uses SVDRP for timer programming. Although the port can be configured in epgsearch's setup a change of the default port would probably cause some support. Plugins can not read vdr's SVDRP port til now, so it would be great to have any function for this and a change of the default

Re: [vdr] epgsearch compile problem

2010-02-01 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, I've just uploaded beta16 which works with vdr-1.7.12 too: http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/downloads/beta/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.25.beta16.tgz BR, Christian Pertti Kosunen wrote: g++ -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -c -DCONFDIR=\"/etc/vdr\" -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -DUSE_LIEMIEXT -DUSE

Re: [vdr] LIVE: Missing streams for recordings

2009-08-27 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, RalfGesellensetter schrieb: sed: can't read ../../../config.h: No such file or directory to use the git repository you need a complete development environment for vdr. My packages seem to

Re: [vdr] LIVE: Missing streams for recordings

2009-08-26 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Ralf, RalfGesellensetter schrieb: But as it comes to finished recordings, we miss a button that would open vlc[plugin] and give the corresponding stream. please try the current cvs or git version: git clone git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-live.git live This one already has

Re: [vdr] vdr-api: how to check if VDR is up?

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, thanks Klaus, this works like a charm :) Christian Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > On 06/08/09 08:59, Christian Wieninger wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> the epgsearch plugin handles some tasks as separate threads, that also >> use SVDRP to talk to VDR. Currently the

[vdr] vdr-api: how to check if VDR is up?

2009-06-08 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, the epgsearch plugin handles some tasks as separate threads, that also use SVDRP to talk to VDR. Currently these threads are started after a fixed time (e.g. 20s) to give VDR the time to start up. A user reported that epgsearch fails in SVDRP communication, because VDR was still waiting for

Re: [vdr] epgsearch as default EPG browser/guide?

2009-05-27 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, please apply the main menu hooks patch which is included in epgsearchs package and activate the main menu replacement in epgsearchs setup. Some other plugins use this patch too, e.g. extrec. Perhaps it will become part of vdr core some day ;) BR, Christian Alex Betis wrote: > Hello all, >

Re: [vdr] False timer conflict

2008-06-07 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Martin, Martin Emrich wrote: > channel, where I don't have a smartcard/CAM/whatever for. I'll therefore > delete the timer entry, but maybe the error message could say something > like "timer on an encrypted channel, but no decryption possible" or so > to clarify things. > I think this is ju

Re: [vdr] EPGSearch time-based blacklisting

2008-05-28 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Mike, sorry for the late response. Mike Lampard wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a channel with identical EPG info for the same program, regardless of > episode. Often the program I want to record is repeated every six hours or > so, but depending on the day it may be every 12 hours or more (its

[vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.24

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch: 2008-04-29: Version 0.9.24 new: - support for vdr-1.6.x/1.7.x - speedup in searching and search timer updates (about 25%) - speedup in EPG menues, thanks to patch authors from http://www.open7x0.org - support for VDRSymbols font (activate it with 'WarEagl

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.15 and epgsearch-0.9.23

2008-02-20 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Ville, Ville Aakko schrieb: > runs. Hope the beta doesn't blow up my VDR =) > > "This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment..." ;-) Some other people also work with this beta. So there should be no problems, but who knows... ;-) BR, Christian

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.15 and epgsearch-0.9.23

2008-02-20 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Ville Aakko schrieb: > Hi! > > Anybody got vdr-epgsearch working with vdr 1.5.15? In Gentoo (via > vdr-1.5 overlay ebuilds?). > > please try the current beta of 0.9.24 at http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/index_eng.html. This one has the necessary changes for vdr-1.5.15. Here's a

Re: [vdr] MainMenuHooks in vdr-1.6.0?

2008-02-05 Thread Christian Wieninger
Joachim Wilke wrote: > 2008/2/5, Reiner Buehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Will the integration of this (and other similar patches) harm in any way? >> > > Yes. A stable version needs a feature freeze to get stable. Otherwise > we could continue as before. > > this was the reason to ask now

[vdr] MainMenuHooks in vdr-1.6.0?

2008-02-05 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Klaus, is there a chance to have this patch http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/32212 in 1.6.0? Several plugins already support this patch and most VDR distributions have this too, imho. Would be great to have it in core VDR. BR, Christian

[vdr] Progressbar support in skins classic and st:tng

2007-11-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, many skins (like text2skin, enigmang, soppalusikka, ... ) support displaying a graphical progressbar when a text like "[||| ]" appears in a menu item. Since runtime patching a font is not possible anymore I was wondering if also the skins classic and st:tng could support this. Here's a s

[vdr] [Announce] vdr-scheduler-0.1.0

2007-11-04 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's a new plugin especially for VDRs not running 24/7. It allows you to execute tasks in the context of VDR and trigger wakeups for this. Features: - optional wakeup of VDR to execute a job (no dummy timers needed anymore) - prevent a shutdown while a job is still executed - optional ann

[vdr] Crash with cMenuEditStrItem in vdr-1.5.9

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, me and Rolf Ahrenberg noticed that there seems to be a problem with cMenuEditStrItem in vdr-1.5.9. To reproduce it just call the timer edit menu and hit 'left' on the directory item or any other cMenuEditStrItem object. The following patch should fix this: --- vdr-1.5.9/menuitems.c 2

Re: [vdr] [Announce] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.23

2007-09-11 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So why not when hitting RED button (or any other button) on series EPG entry, > to have two possibilities, to make normal timer or to make EPG search timer > from show name? > > simply press '4' on the EPG entry (or '0' to toggle the color buttons and "Commands

[vdr] license handling of po files in plugins?

2007-09-06 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, my current po files for epgsearch have the following headers due to script generation: # VDR plugin language source file. # Copyright (C) 2007 Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # This file is distributed under the same license as the VDR package. # Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

[vdr] [Announce] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.23

2007-09-05 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch: 2007-09-02: Version 0.9.23 new: - full support for new i18n system in vdr>=1.5.7, but keeps fully backwards compatible - when using extended EPG categories one can now also compare by value, e.g. to search for events after some year. Therefore n

Re: [vdr] translation context handling in vdr >= 1.5.7

2007-08-27 Thread Christian Wieninger
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > gettext() may or may not return the original string, so if no translation > is found, the context needs to be stripped. > > Please try this: sorry for the late response. gmx seemed to be blacklisted again ;) Works like a charm. BR, Christian

[vdr] translation context handling in vdr >= 1.5.7

2007-08-23 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, I just noticed a small change in the context handling of translations since vdr-1.5.7. Till now it was possible to have e.g. const char AllowedChars[] = trNOOP("$ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.,#~\\^$[]|()*+?{}/:%@&"); Note the 2 '$'. The first one only helps to have the second one

Re: [vdr] List of failed plugins for vdr-1.5.7

2007-08-13 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, > *** failed plugins: autotimeredit burn dvd epgsearch skinenigmang you can find a current beta13 of epgsearch at http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/downloads/beta/ which compiles with vdr-1.5.7, but there's not yet real support for the new internationalization method. BR, Christi

[vdr] FRQ: VDR core support for online help

2007-08-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, today many TV equipment offers online help, even my remote does ;) VDR currently only gives help by manuals or WIKI, but this is far away every time you need it, i.e. if you whatch TV. So I was wondering if it would be interesting to add online help for VDR with the following requirements:

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5.3 - issue with translations out of plugins

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, I still had crashes even when using Alexanders patch. I think the fix should look like this (diff against plain 1.5.3): --- vdr-1.5.3/i18n.c2007-06-09 10:44:54.0 +0200 +++ vdr-1.5.3-patched/i18n.c2007-06-12 19:40:42.0 +0200 @@ -6851,7 +6851,7 @@ re

Re: [vdr] Plugin patches for vdr-1.5.3

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, > Please let me know if this patch is incorrect. Also, I am currently > looking for patches to fix epgsearch-0.9.22, tvonscreen-0.7.0, and > liemikuutio. I've uploaded a beta for epgsearch, that supports vdr-1.5.3: http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/downloads/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.23-be

[vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.22

2007-05-27 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch. This time a little earlier as usual because of a new other plugin coming soon ;) 2007-05-27: Version 0.9.22 new: - new option in timer conflict check "When a recording starts": This performs a conflict check when any recording starts and informs ab

Re: [vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.21

2007-05-01 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Stone wrote: I have two user-defined EPG times setup, but when I enable "favorites", only the second user-defined time is displayed after the favorites is displayed. Anyone notice that? There's a special handling for user-defined EPG times. Here's the section from the Readme: 1.3 Exte

[vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.21

2007-04-29 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch. 2007-04-29: Version 0.9.21 new: - support for the new MainMenuHooksPatch. This replaces the vdr-replace-schedulemenu patch. The new patch is used by other plugins too, so from now on only one patch is needed. The old patch is still supported, but t

[vdr] recording directory changes after timer resume

2007-03-19 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, I noticed a problem with the recording directory of the following timer 9:S19.2E-1-1092-10100:M--:2000:2200:50:99:Musik~DELUXE: in a situation where the recording gets interrupted by any other recording due to higher priority (with vdr-1.4.6): Mar 19 20:00:00 Kanotix vdr: [4293] tim

Re: [vdr] Epgsearch does not create timers

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Wieninger
Stuart Morris wrote: > I am having difficulty getting Epgsearch plugin to create any timers. > I am using epgsearch version 0.9.20. My epg is received from UK "Freeview" > DVB-t. VDR is running as root. There are no patches to vdr. The only > other plugin > running at the same time is -Pskincurses

[vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.20

2007-01-30 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch. Description and download: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.20.tgz 2006-01-30: Version 0.9.20 new: - support for vdr-1.5.0. Note: the CA support in the timer

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.3

2007-01-26 Thread Christian Wieninger
Stone wrote: > Is epgsearch 0.9.20 available or is there an intermediary patch for 0.9.19? sorry, not yet. I hope to release it within the next days. Regards, Christian ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

Re: [vdr] Replay a recording and return to calling plugin?

2007-01-10 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Martin, Thanks! Works great! Regards, Christian ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Replay a recording and return to calling plugin?

2007-01-10 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, is there any way to start the replay of a recording in a plugin, so that after ending the replay, VDR returns to the calling plugin instead of the recordings menu? My replay start looks like this: cReplayControl::SetRecording(recording->FileName(), recording->Title()); return osReplay; I pl

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2006-12-30 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Udo Richter wrote: > Actually, whether this is internally or externally, the complexity stays > the same. It would probably work mostly the same way: Tweak the wakeup > time, detect this on wakeup, start the EPG scan, go offline. perhaps this is too trivial, but why not create a daily or what

Re: [vdr] How to detect if a timer was deleted?

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Does epgsearch save any status from epg-data and/or timers? yes, but the 'done' approach is currently different: epgsearch marks and saves a broadcast as done only if it has been successfully and completely recorded. So any recording break because of timer con

[vdr] How to detect if a timer was deleted?

2006-12-23 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, for a new feature of epgsearch, I'd like to do a continuous check (in a separate thread) if any timer was deleted via OSD or SVDRP since the last check. The only thing I found so far is to build a timer array and compare it at each check with the current timer list. But if timers where modifi

[vdr] [Announce] epgsearch-0.9.19

2006-10-27 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, here's a new release of epgsearch (mainly a bug fix release): 2006-10-27: Version 0.9.19 new: - if search results of different searches intersect, now only the search that initially created a corresponding timer may modify it. - new variables: * '%search.query%' to be used in the recording

Re: [vdr] VDR deletes directories

2006-10-09 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, Matthias Fechner schrieb: Hi, I have the problem that VDR deletes directories in my /video0 or /video1 ... which not belongs to VDR. IIRC VDR only deletes empty directories. So simply put a dummy file with zero length in it. BR, Christian

Re: [vdr] Feature Request: MySQL interface for EPG/configuration

2006-09-09 Thread Christian Wieninger
Rene Bartsch wrote: if the configuration (channels, transponders, options) and EPG would be stored in a MySQL-DB other applications could easily use that data instead of doing expensive scans of the files again and again. Maybe there could be a compiler switch or even a command-line option for V

Re: [vdr] Making a cList object thread safe?

2006-08-20 Thread Christian Wieninger
You have to protect all functions of your object which are dealing with the list (reading and/or writing) with a cMutex. Thanks! So the following should work (please correct me if I'm wrong): I add a cMutex object in the cList derived class and 2 functions: class cThreadSafecList: public c

[vdr] Making a cList object thread safe?

2006-08-20 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, what is the best way to make a cList derived object thread safe? I have an object derived from cList and access it in the main thread and also in a background thread. The main thread access can modify the object (insert, edit, delete or even reload the complete list) while the background t

Re: [vdr] RFC: Man page intstallation support for plugins?

2006-08-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Udo Richter schrieb: We could also handle this similar to the libs: On compile, all plugins can put (or symlink) their man-pages into PLUGINS/man, and the install target copies them from there. That way it would be fully backwards compatible. This would limit the plugins documentation to 'man

Re: [vdr] RFC: Man page intstallation support for plugins?

2006-08-12 Thread Christian Wieninger
Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: However, what if a plugin's Makefile doesn't provide an 'install-doc' target? You might want to make sure this doesn't cause tons of error messages. What we would also how about an additional grep like that? : install-doc-plugins: @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src |

[vdr] [Announce] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.17d ((maintenance release)

2006-08-07 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, just a small maintenance release before the next 'real' one: fixes: - fixed a wrong usage of 'cPlugin::ConfigDirectory' in search timer thread, thanks to Udo Richter and Petri Hintukainen for reporting Description and download: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__engl

[vdr] RFC: Man page intstallation support for plugins?

2006-08-06 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi Klaus, the next release of my plugin will have a couple of man pages. I included an 'install-doc' section in the Makefile. But one has to do a 'make install-doc' in the plugins source directory to install them. What do you think about a 'make install-doc-plugins' in VDR's Makefile like th