vdr (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New VDR configuration file All command line options are now configured in /etc/vdr/conf.d/00-vdr.conf. The following config options formerly configured in /etc/default/vdr must manually be moved to 00-vdr.conf: VIDEO_DIR (--video), SVDRP_PORT (--port), USER (--user), LIRC (--lirc), VFAT (--vfat), VDR_CHARSET_OVERRID (--chartab) See man(1) vdr. You can also run the following command, which will try to migrate these options automatically: sh /usr/share/vdr/migrate-old-config.sh || true * Now using /etc/vdr/conf.d for loading plugins VDR plugin packages now install a config file to /etc/vdr/conf.avail/. This is basically the same as the old config file /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin-.conf and contains the command line arguments passed to the plugin. By creating a symlink in /etc/vdr/conf.d/ which points to the config in conf.avail/ the plugin gets enabled for loading when the vdr daemon is started. The changed settings from the old config are not automatically migrated to the new config files. You have to do this manually. Basically you can simply copy all options from /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin-.conf to /etc/vdr/conf.avail/.conf. You just have to retain the [] section marker at the top of the new config file. * Support for multiple video directories dropped The code for distributing recordings over several video directories has been removed. VDR now by default assumes that the video directory is one big disk. It is recommended to use e.g. mhddfs or LVM to combine multiple volumes. The default video directory for VDR now is /var/lib/video. This can be changed by modifying the --video setting in /etc/vdr/conf.d/00-vdr.conf. * Systemd support The vdr package now ships a systemd unit file. This means where systemd is used, the old SysVInit script and runvdr will be ignored. Some of the old settings available in /etc/default/vdr have been dropped. Most of them, like the LIRC interface can now be configured in /etc/vdr/conf.d/00-vdr.conf. -- Tobias Grimm Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:53:12 +0200 vdr (1.7.17-1) unstable; urgency=low * Changed Full Featured DVB card support Starting with VDR 1.7 support for full featured DVB cards (the ones with built-in SDTV video output) requires one to install an extra plug-in provided by the vdr-plugin-dvbsddevice package. Please also note, that proper trick speed playback with a full featured DVB card needs an improved av7110 firmware. Without this firmware you might experience problems like jumping backwards when stopping fast-forward playback. The improved firmware is provided by Oliver Endriss and can be download here: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/firmware/ * Dropped vdr-* scripts The vdr-daemon, vdr-lirc and vdr-rcu wrapper scripts as well as the vdr-kbd binary have been removed from the package. Please use /use/bin/vdr with the options "--no-kbd", "--lirc" and "--rcu" instead. -- Tobias Grimm Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:24:50 +0100 vdr (1.4.7-1) experimental; urgency=low The script /usr/lib/vdr/vdr-groups.sh may now be used by plugins to manage the group memberships of the user 'vdr'. See README.Debian for details on how to use this script. If you manually need to add the user 'vdr' to a group, you should add the group name to /etc/vdr/vdr-groups. This way the vdr-groups.sh script used by plugin installation/deinstallation procedures does not try to remove vdr from this group. -- Tobias Grimm Sun, 6 May 2007 20:43:44 +0200 vdr (1.2.6-9) experimental; urgency=low This release adds a patch which allows us to have just one binary- package for all four control-methods, so we do not need the packages vdr-daemon, vdr-kbd, vdr-lirc and vdr-rcu anymore. You can run vdr with the control-method you want by calling /usr/bin/vdr-{daemon,kbd,lirc,rcu} or by using update-alternatives --config vdr and setting it to the desired control-method. (lirc is default) After this a call of /usr/bin/vdr will always use the control- method you selected with update-alternatives. -- Thomas Schmidt Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:44:05 +0100 vdr (1.2.6-6) unstable; urgency=low The most important change in this release is that vdr from now on will run under the username vdr, not as root. This is due to some security problems when vdr runs as root. The video-directory and configfiles will be changed at installation, so they are owned by the user and group vdr. The second thing is that the automatic shutdown of vdr is now disabled by default, you can enable it again by changing ENABLE_SHUTDOWN to 1 in /etc/default/vdr. In this release we also changed the default VIDEO_DIR from /var/lib/video to /var/lib/video.00, to make adding extra harddisks for vdr very easy by just creating /var/lib/video.0{1,2,3,...} and mounting the drive(s) there. In existing installations we will simply create a symlink /var/lib/video.00 which points to /var/lib/video. In new installations /var/lib/video will be a symlink which points to /var/lib/video.00. (These changes will only be asked for when you selected yes in the debconf-question to create the video-directory!) -- Thomas Schmidt Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:17:51 +0100 vdr (1.2.6-4) unstable; urgency=low This is the first release from the VDR and DVB Packaging Team Many thanks to Tobias Grimm and Thomas Günther for the various improvements of the package. In this Release, we changed the path of the conf-files to /var/lib/vdr, static conf-files will still be under /etc/vdr, and symlinked to /var/lib/vdr. If you already have non-static files (channels.conf, remote.conf, setup.conf and timers.conf), these files will be moved by the postinst-script to /var/lib/vdr. The most important change in this release is the new init-system of vdr, which was taken from c't-vdr, a woody-based distribution, optimized for vdr. - Plugins are no longer loaded via /etc/default/vdr. Instead of this, every installed plugin will be loaded automatically. The order of the plugins can be configured via /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf. - The commands.conf and the reccmds.conf files will be auto-generated by the init-script for better integration of vdr-addons. If you already have a commands.conf or reccmds.conf, you should move it to /etc/vdr/command-hooks/{commands|reccmds}.custom.conf . -- Thomas Schmidt Sat, 29 May 2004 19:43:49 +0200