VDRsync

Bugs

• dvd-menu.pl: Clean up after running 050302
• vdrsync.pl: Clean up after running 050302
• vdrsync.pl: Fix bug where parameters are not matched with a $ at the end 050302
• vdrsync.pl: Fix bug where parameters can be merged by starting each parameter with /^-{1,2} 050302
• vdrsync.pl: Clean up was running too early and broke multiple recordings on one DVD 050303
• vdrsync.pl: replaced all mkdir by mkpath (and added use File::Path) 050303
• dvd-menu.pl: replaced all mkdir by mkpath (and added use File::Path) 050303
• vdrsync.pl: Try to handle the new AC3 format (VDR > 1.3.19, changed again in VDR 1.3.23) 050322
• vdrsync.pl: Try to define the order of the audio streams (AC3 should always be first...)
• vdrsync.pl: Fix parameter "--chapter"
• vdrsync.pl: Ignore --use-pipe option if mplex is not available
• dvd-menu.pl: Fix chapter creation if there is no chapter at film start
• dvd-menu.pl Stop if (specified) font can not be found
• dvd-menu.pl Stop if needed helper programs are not found

TODO

• vdrsync.pl: Let the user specify the temp directory 050302
• dvd-menu.pl: Let the user specify the temp directory 050302
• dvd-menu.pl: Fix generated dvd menus so that they can be viewed on all(?) DVD-Players 050108
• dvd-menu.pl: Unpack all temp files to the temp directory (silence.mpa!) 050302
• vdrsync.pl: Stop if last audio stream is dead
• vdrsync.pl: Incorporate automatic switch of output file upon changes in either video- or audio format
• dvd-menu.pl: Add feature to create Chapter Menus from MPEGs
• dvd-menu.pl: Check separator for titles texts / menu texts, different separators might lead to confusion
• vdrsync_buffer.pl: rewrite in C to remove dependence on perl 5.8 with threads
• vdrsync.pl: summary.vdr: Check formating when importing summary.vdr into the GUI (and into the actual menu)
• PERHAPS vdrsync.pl: rewrite of vdrsync.pl to incorporate all the little things I learned in the past years about recordings, to get a cleaner design that is easier to understand, and to allow real STDIN input from a stream
• PERHAPS dvd-menu.pl: rewrite of dvd-menu.pl to create a clean script that can be extended by menu templates and effect templates

VDRsync GUI

Bugs

• vdrsync-gui.pl: Fix all occurrences of justify to -justify 050302
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Make "use queue-manager" a configuration option that is saved 050302
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Copy summary.vdr, and other related files (bg.jpg, main.jpg) into destination directory, too
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Exit with a proper error message if helper programs are missing
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Error: Negative length at ./vdrsync-gui.pl line 4468 (if scrolling fast)
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Fix movement of GUI Parts when using the mouse wheel
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Escape titles properly to allow for "()" in the title name
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Make sure that downloaded marks are displayed directly after download
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Add separate Buttons for the creation of background pictures
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Add possibility to show sequences before and after menus (like dvd-menu.pl does on the command line)
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Do not try to cut files when --cut not been specified

TODO

• vdrsync-gui.pl: Incorporate the helau resize patch that fits the GUI on an 800x600 screen 050302
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Make the size of the preview window, and the location of the buttons configurable 050302
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Study the patches from Matthias for the Windows port, and publish a Windows Version including Installation instructions
• general: warn if the destination directory is not empty, because an existing DVD structure would not be deleted, but the current selection would be added "on top"
• vdrsync-gui.pl: summary.vdr: offer to work with a temporary copy
• vdrsync-gui.pl: summary.vdr: Make sure the back button is not hidden by text
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Update statistics and requant factor after marks have been manipulated
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Fix generation of sharemarks config / add some sanity checks
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Add a Box for the Chapter Menu Duration
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Build dialog for channel selection for marks2pts into VDRsync GUI
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Offer creation of a sharemarks.conf if none can be found
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Fix numbering scheme for the channels, should be the same as VDR when creating sharemarks.conf
• vdrsync-gui.pl: Offer Tk::Jpeg as alternative to Tk::Jpeg::Lite, since it seems to be available on some distributions
• vdrsync-gui.pl: GDTextUtil-0.86 might need a different way of setting font attributes (set_font)
• queue-manager.pl: Add kill feature for stale processes, kill automatically upon error
• vdr-player.pl: Allow Navigation
• PERHAPS vdrsync-gui.pl: Offer other EPG data sources

Sharemarks

Bugs

TODO

• marks2pts: Fix numbering scheme for the channels, should be the same as VDR
• marks2pts: Offer non-interactive sharemarks.conf creation by just specifying the channel number as a parameter

General

Bugs

• Sorting of marks is buggy for marks > 10 h
• VDRsync and Co do not work if the recording contains a .vdr file of size 0
• Enhance the fault tolerance of all scripts with regard to additional / wrong marks
• Use makepath from File::Path whenever creating a directory
• Check exit codes of helper programs

TODO

• Keep VDRRECORDING.pm separately
• Add an Option to create nice logfiles of all steps instead of redirecting messages to /dev/null
• Add detection of the platform we are running on
• Enhance create_indexvdr.pl to allow cutting and indexing in a single step
• PERHAPS: integrate cdlabelgen

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