Nieuw Neumo image v2.13 voor 400s

[Gast]

Er is een nieuw Neumo image v2.13 voor de 400s:

 

http://update.neumoteam.org/pal/2.13/usb_kernel_root.img

http://update.neumoteam.org/pal/2.13/usb_kernel_root_db.img

 

ps:

- Jondoe heeft zopas PC Editor v1.2.42 uitgebracht, vorige versies van de PC Editor zijn niet compatibel met dit image.

- vergeet niet de tijdzone instelling te kontroleren na installeren van dit image.

- wij verwachten over enkele weken opnieuw een image uit te brengen, feedback is welkom!

 

vg

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relooker

 

 

Release notes:

----------------

 

I: new feature or improvement

B: bug fix

N: Note

 

Some of the bug fixes and improvements below have been incorporated

in DGS 2.13, but many have not yet been incorporated.

 

The changes are w.r.t. the previously released Neumo image (2.9a).

 

Boot and shutdown

-----------------

I: cold boot speed has been improved by running operations

in parallel where possible. You can now cold boot with 25 seconds

and warm boot within 15s. These numbers are typical but depend

on the spin-up speed of your hard disk.

 

I: removing old EPG records is no longer done at startup time. As a

result, all EPG screens now work immediately after startup (before

you had to wait before something appeared on-screen)

 

N: Shutdown speed has been reduced due to EPG cleaning and EPG

cleaning now takes a lot more time because of the more efficient

EPG code that gathers more data than before. Also dbepg.dat will

typically grow larger than before.

 

I: When pressing the power button to turn relook off, the video output

is switched off much faster so that the regular TV picture

appears. After the picture disappears relook continues to shut

down. In particular, it needs some time to delete old EPG records.

If internet EPG is in progress, shutdown will be delayed until it

is finished. Pressing the power button during database cleaning

will restart relook. Pressing the power button during internet EPG

will stop relook (this behavior will be made more consist later).

 

I: The filesystem of /var/media is automatically upgraded to ext3.

As a result, the filesystem check that could take 15-20 minutes

after a panic is now avoided in most cases. Older ext2-based images

will still be able to access your data, but only if relook shuts down

cleanly before you install the older image.

 

I: The NeumoTeam option "Check HDD on next start" now works differently:

When you turn it on, relook will do a long (15-30 minutes) filesystem

check as before, but the new thing is that it turns off the option

afterwards.

 

EPG

---

I: DVB EPG now gathers EPG data for all channels on the current transponder,

and not only for the current channel.

 

I: All start times are rounded to the nearest minute. This helps to

avoid inserting records with small overlaps or duplicate records.

 

I: The story window (displayed after pressing OK or info) can

now also be hidden be pressing info again.

 

I: In multichannel EPG the story window (EPG detail info) can now be

shown by typing the info button (the OK button also works).

 

I: Channel EPG has been made the default EPG because it is faster and

clearer.

 

I: In channel EPG, you can now type the channel number to display

the EPG of that channel. You can press OK after the last number

to display the result faster. As before you can press the

"check"-button to make the channel for which EPG is displayed the

live channel.

 

I: The EPG code now gathers all data from a transponder as quickly as

it can and only then starts to process it. If the user changes

channel after the data has been gathered, relook will process that

data instead of discarding it as it did before. Another advantage

is that the EPG code works faster. The old code was sometimes so

slow that it missed the next table in the sequence and then had to

wait until it was transmitted again.

 

I: Checking for duplicate EPG records is now faster and also more

efficient: it results in fewer disk accesses. As a result, the

overall CPU-usage of the EPG code has been significantly reduced.

This should reduce some pixelation problems. Memory usage of the code

has been reduced by 50%, leaving more space for other applications.

 

B: When a commit to dbepg.dat fails, relook blocked itself from further

accessing EPG-data effectively disabling all EPG functions until next

reboot.

 

I: When the EPG write thread fails to save data because the database is

locked, the data is no longer discarded but the write is retried

later. As a result less data is lost. A locked database occurs

when Internet EPG is locking the database, and when the user

executes a long-lasting EPG search.

 

I: When tuning to a new channel, EPG for that channel will appear

faster because it is now inserted in the front of the EPG write

queue rather than at the end of the queue.

 

I: Channel EPG now notices when new EPG data arrives and updates the

screen accordingly.

 

I: The EPG code has been completely rewritten. All configuration files,

such as mhw_tp_list, have been replaced by a database table

NITEpgInfo. Transponders listed in this table are scanned before

all other transponders. The scan order is determined by a Priority

column. Specific transponders can be disabled altogether by

inserting them into NITEpgInfo and setting the EpgDisable column

to an appropriate value. Transponders for Premiere, TPS, Digital+,

Canaal Digitaal, TV Vlaanderen and some important German networks

have been added.

 

If for any reason NITEpgInfo is empty or contains the wrong transponders

you will still get EPG data for your favorite channels but it will take

longer

 

I: EPG records are now updated when their story length is larger than the

the story in the database.

 

I: OTV EPG has been added. This offers up to 7 days of detailed EPG

data on TPS. The mapping of TPS channel numbers to specific channels

on specific transponders is stored in a database table EpgMap because

a better solution was not available. Please note that data for some

channels does not seem to be transmitted all the time.

 

I: MHW2 has been added. This offers up to 7 days of detailed EPG

data on most Digital+ channels (most notably not Taquilla).

 

N: The DGS list EPG has been disabled since it offers less functionality

than channel EPG.

 

B: Crash in channel EPG. After pressing the "check"-button in the channel

EPG on the current channel, relook goes to live mode. The next time

channel EPG was activated, relook crashed. This was because channel

EPG was not properly closed in this case.

 

B: Scroll bar in channel EPG was not updated correctly.

 

B: Channel EPG crashed when channel list was sorted by provider.

 

B: Attempting EPG-search made relook crash.

 

B: The results from the EPG search screen displayed the wrong time and

program titles.

 

B: End and start offset were sometimes added twice when editing

recording schedules.

 

B: Premiere subfeed EPG data was not gathered correctly because premiere.c

associates the Premiere sport portal PID with Premiere direkt.

 

B: Relook crashed in mhwepg.c because of a null pointer dereference.

 

B: Relook crashed when EPG search returned no records.

 

B: Icon for "Scroll description" showed left-right arrows instead of top/bottom.

 

Channel list and channel changing

---------------------------------

I: Automatic channel renumbering (from DGS 2.11) has been disabled,

since most users do not like that.

 

I: Worst-case channel changing speed has been improved. Channel

changing was sometimes blocked when the EPG code was waiting

for a table that was never broadcast. Channel changing was also

blocked for a long time after tuning to a channel with no signal.

 

B: Relook crashed when sorting channels by sat. This was caused by

the insertion of zero-ids during database upgrade. The code is

now robust against such errors.

 

B: On encrypted channels the "ecm_pid list is full" appears sometimes. For

instance on TPS. Despite the error, the channel decrypts. Duplicate

ecm_pid's are no longer registered. A warning message is displayed instead.

 

B: Picture freeze. When changing channels manually, or when the

EPG code tuned to a different transponder, picture freeze occurred

sometimes. This bug was traced to the i2c code by NeumoTeam and

fixed by DGS.

 

B: Relook sometimes did not display a picture after a channel change. The

audio is played fine. This has the same cause as the picture freeze

bug.

 

B: When the EPG write list was full, relook locked up completely.

 

B: While browsing the channel list, the application might crash

when using page-down to go to (past) the bottom and then using up to

move up again.

 

Recordings and playback

-----------------------

I: The "stop recording" GUI now shows longer channel names and it also

includes the names and start times of the programs being recorded.

In the old dialog sometimes two recordings could not be distinguished.

 

I: The color of recordings in the record plan has been changed to

white for improved readability.

 

I: In the recording list, pressing the info button displays the

story (if available) of the recording. This screen can now be

removed by pressing the info button again.

 

I: Relook again asks for confirmation before deleting a recording (was

removed by DGS).

 

I: The EPG record for a recording is not only stored in the database,

but also in the filesystem. This allows media_info in db.dat to be

recreated in case db.dat is lost.

 

I: Undeletion of accidentally deleted files is made easier as follows:

the index-file is no longer deleted but renamed and the media_info

record of the deleted recording is saved in a table

deleted_media_info for some time.

 

You can undelete as long as you did not press the power button:

1. rename the dead.program and dead.program.index files to their

correct name: "mv dead.long_file_name long_file_name".

2. copy the record from deleted_media_info to media_info using

SQL commands.

 

I: Names of recorded files now include the year in addition to month and day.

 

I: When entering a new reservation or recording manually, a message box

with the text "please wait" used to appear. The slow behavior was

caused by the creation of a combo-box for every single channel in the

database (radio and TV) which is very slow. Now this action only

occurs if you change the channel of the recording or reservation.

 

B: Relook crashed when pressing the info button twice to display EPG

details during playback.

 

B: When recording "until end of program", the question box ("120

minutes or until end of program") remained on the screen.

 

B: Relook did not shut down after a recording.

 

B: Relook crashed when pressing the info button twice during playback of a

recording that was made "manually" (i.e., not from an epg record).

 

B: Pressing and holding the fast forward (<<) and fast rewind (>>)

keys in time-shift or playback mode, to jump forward or backward

only worked once until the live banner disappears.

 

B: Pressing the pause and play key (which jumps to the next bookmark)

only worked once until the live banner disappears.

 

B: Recordings started via EPG or REC-button didn't end on time. Note:

a similar (rare) bug may still be present. This part of the code

will be rewritten in a future version to deal with other recording

related problems.

 

B: In the recording list screen, pressing the stop button should stop

any file playback. When a recording is in progress and no file is

being played, the stop button brought up the "stop recording" dialog,

which does not function correctly in this case. This has been changed

so that only playbacks are affected.

 

B: In the recording list menu, pressing the lock icon and typing a

password (0000) made relook crash.

 

B: When stopping a recording manually, relook sometimes crashed while

inserting a record into media_info.

 

Live mode

---------

B: Live banner now shows the correct name of the program when it is being

recorded.

 

B: EPG display also works in banner mode 2.

 

B: A message box appeared saying that the channel is scrambled appeared

when it was not.

 

B: In time-shift mode, the pause, fast forward and rewind keys now work

correctly (see "recording and playback").

 

Upgrade and software installation

---------------------------------

I: ipkg has been added. It will be used to install Geckow, Internet EPG,

PHP and Perl.

 

B: Image upgrade via HTTP has been supported for a while now. Virtual hosts

are now correctly supported.

 

B: Database upgrade updates sat_id's. In some cases, the new sat_id becomes

0, leading to memory corruption. This bug helps trigger another bug that

makes relook crash when channels are ordered by satellite.

 

N: The database schema has changed. You will not be able

to use PC editor until it supports the new schema 1.18.

 

USB-mode

--------

B: Entering USB-mode resulted in a panic.

 

Setup and menus

---------------

I: Time-zones are now controlled using standard Linux time-zone files.

The time-zone is now only determined by the symbolic link

/var/etc/localtime and is no longer also stored in the database, which

solves the problem that some GUI screens displayed a different time than

others in some cases and all the EPG-related problems.

 

Users can select the time-zone using the local-time setup screen. Users

in central Europe should use "CET" as the time-zone. This zone will

automatically switch to and from daylight savings time

 

The "daylight savings time" setup option has been removed since it was

confusing should no longer be needed.

 

N: It is not clear if the first recording after DST change will actually

work. Wait and see.

 

B: Relook crashes when entering USALS menu.

 

B: The help line in "ipsetup" was not shown correctly after using the

virtual keyboard from DDNS setup.

 

B: The help line in "NeumoTeam Settings (HDD)" was not shown

correctly. If you opened another menu first, you saw the help

line of the old menu.

 

B: Pressing the arrow key when the cursor was on on the last line in

Local Time menu, the cursor didn't jump on the first line again,

but added another Time-line to the menu.

 

B: Some NeumoTeam-settings were not saved correctly: send DiseqC (never);

use free tuner if scrambled (never); front panel display

(sometimes); led-status in standby (sometimes).

 

B: Key 0 also runs a script in addition to keys 1-9

 

Front panel

--------------------

I: Accented characters in channel names such as Téva, Première,

France ô, ... are no longer displayed as blanks on the led front

panel, but as the corresponding non-accented characters. This

should work for most but not all accented characters.

 

B: If in NeumoTeam Settings (general) the "Front panel display" is "Channel

number", the front panel shows the channel nr. right in live, but in

recording mode the front panel shows "rec + channel NAME" instead of

"rec C..." (channel-nr):

 

Plugins

-------

I: Plugin menu now shows metadata (authors, description etc.).

 

B: The help lines in all plugins were not displayed correctly. Some

plugins crashed. The standard plugins Pong and Sudoku have been fixed.

 

N: Related to the just mentioned bug: All plugins need to be recompiled

because of a change in help_message.c. Otherwise they will crash.

 

B: The ts_rec plugin did not work correctly because some ecm_pid's

remained registered.

 

Miscellaneous

----------------

I: The following "standard" linux configuration files have been introduced

and the most important ones can be edited.

/etc/hosts /etc/protocols

 

I: image loading and unloading (in the gui) has been improved to be more

robust against coding errors.

 

I: dropbear uses a different random device and no longer hangs waiting

for entropy if no keys are being pressed.

 

I: nptd has been included. It can synchronize your clock very accurately.

Make sure you use the "manual" time-setting in the relook setup menu

when using ntpd.

 

I: syslog now starts automatically on boot. The log can be read using logread.

 

I: dmesg is now included to read the console log from a virtual console.

 

Geckow

------

The following bugs are fixed in the Geckow version in svn

 

B: Geckow did not obey "record start offset" and "record end offset"

(the solution is implemented in the database, not Geckow)

 

B: When /var/media/video contains symlinks. Geckow does not display

the list of recorded files.

 

Improvements for developers

---------------------------

I: Source can be compiled on MacOSX. Patches for this are available.

 

I: Console output prompt has been changed to be less confusing

for debuggers that interpret messages on stderr.

 

I: All freed pointers are zeroed which makes it easier to detect

memory bugs.

 

I: By creating the file /var/.savelog, relook will no longer send debug

messages to the serial console, but rather to a file in /var/media/log.

Users without serial console should use this option to gather the

debug messages when they experience a problem. They can then send

them to developers

 

I: [describe installation of debug version of application]

 

B: Source failed to compile when HOST was set in the environment.

 

Known issues (not fixed)

------------------------

B: Lip sync problems on encrypted channels.

 

B: The layout of multi-channel EPG is confusing and sometimes shows programs

at the wrong start time.

 

B: In IP-Setup after changing the IP address manually the field with the

IP address is first updated when pressing submit button. It should

be immediately after entering a new IP.

 

B: Relook crashes when the slide show reads bad data from the disk. The

problem occurs in vid_write_mpeg_file and may be in a binary module.

 

B: Softcam sometimes suddenly fails with the error "DemuxSectioncallback():

Error - Section Filter length =0"

 

B: On Filmfour, when there is a long pause in conversation the subtitle for

the next spoken sentence sometimes appears up to 10 seconds to early. At

a certain point it disappears again (timeout), before even the sentence

is spoken.

 

N: EPG search (e.g., yellow button in grid EPG) can take a very long time.

There should be some way to abort the search if it takes too long.

 

N: NeumoTeam auto-start time option has been removed because it

complicated the EPG code and is now less needed because the EPG

code works better during normal operation. An equivalent DGS option

("Wake up" in "User's options") can turn on your relook at a desired time.

After you activate it, go to the "record plan" and set the duration to

the desired value.

 

This mode will allow EPG transponders to be scanned, but not in the

same way as the deleted Neumo-code. For users with loop-though LNB's

only some transponders will be scanned. We plan to solve this in

a later version.

 

N: Audio language should be selectable when recording.

 

N: Subtitle language (or enabling/disabling subtitles) should

be selectable when recording.

 

 

End of the list.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Gast]

En DIT noem ik nog eens een UPDATE.

Echt klasse.

 

Vanavond testen.

Download: http://relook.3pinter.nl

PCEditor: http://relook.3pinter.nl/software/pceditor/Setup_PCEditor_1.2.42.exe

Ahh, jammer: uiteraard geen EMU's aanwezig in Neumo releases, dus testen zal niet lukken hiero <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[Gast]

Jullie hebben niet stil gezeten <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

 

Maar hoe werkt dat nu met die versienummers ?

fantacy had eerst 3.14a

vervolgens releasd DGS versie 3.14

en nu Neumo 3.13

 

Begrijp ik het dan goed dat Neumo met de laagste versienummer in het rijtje, de nieuwste versie is met de meeste buxfixes ?

Of zitten deze dingen reeds in de fantacy en DGS versie 3.14 ?

 

Maar toch, goed werk jongens !

[Beurnie1]

Als ik het juist begrijp kan je in de neumo-images geen emu's zetten?

[Gast]

Nee, je kunt de emu's er zelf in plaatsen!

Maar of het dan goed werkt dat is de 2de vraag.

[Beurnie1]

Met andere woorden... IEmand die het zou getest hebben, met Emu's... : Wij wachten op uw bevindingen :-)

[johnwillem]

Op denktenk bij news staat een emu tool kit.

Kun je zelf de emu,s plaatsen in een orginele of neumo image.

Er staat ook een howto file bij

 

dus dat moet lukken

[Gast]

De laatste Neumo werkt super tot nu toe.

Heb dmv de handleiding van Denktenk zelf de EMU's toegevoegd en loopt als een tierelier. Ook zappen gaat super.

[Gast]

Citaat:

..hoe werkt dat nu met die versienummers ?
fantacy had eerst 3.14a
vervolgens releasd DGS versie 3.14
en nu Neumo 3.13

Begrijp ik het dan goed dat Neumo met de laagste versienummer in het rijtje, de nieuwste versie is met de meeste buxfixes ?

Hoi Testa,

Je bedoelt waarschijnlijk versienummers 2.xx ipv 3.xx. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Versienummers van images, verwant aan de DGS firmware, krijgen normaal het versienr. van het DGS image waarop ze gebaseerd zijn.
De DGS software staat op onze SVN codeserver publiek beschikbaar, ook de code van images die nog niet klaar zijn om uitgebracht te
worden door DGS. De mensen van Fantacy hebben blijkbaar eind vorige week met de code van het 'under construction' DGS image 2.14
hun aangepast image uitgebracht, een paar dagen voordat DGS v2.14 heeft uitgebracht. DGS heeft tijdens die 2 dagen nog verder aan
de code gewerkt, waardoor er minder bugs inzitten dan in de Fantacy 2.13a ..

Het Neumo image is gebaseerd op de DGS code 2.13. Er zijn echter duidelijk minder bugs in, doordat we langdurige, grondige beta-testen
hebben gedaan. (vnl. door Duitsers.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> )
Onze definitieve release naar het publiek was reeds een aantal dagen op voorhand gepland op zondagavond, samen met de aangepaste
versie van de PC-Editor. Zondagochtend was er dan de DGS v2.14 release.

We hadden eventueel last-minute ook de DGS v2.14 kunnen integreren in ons image, maar dan met het risico op nieuwe bugs. Aangezien
we absoluut willen afstappen van de trial-and-error alfa/beta releases die de Relook een slechte naam hebben bezorgd, zijn we dus
gebleven bij de v2.13.

Het was overigens toch reeds gepland in april een volgende Neumo image uit te brengen. DGS v2.14 (of een volgende..) wordt dan mee in
dat image geïntegreerd.


Neumo 2.13 is dus inderdaad de nieuwste, en zeker met de meeste bugfixes. De laatste verbeteringen (of bugs..) van de DGS v2.14 zitten
er echter nog niet in.

Hopelijk is het nu wat duidelijker na dit kort woordje uitleg... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Wat betreft de vragen van de andere posters: wie eens een kijkje neemt bij denktenk vindt daar snel een antwoord.

vg
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relooker

[Gast]

Een verhelderende en duidelijke uitleg, waarvoor dank <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Gast]

Na een avondje testen en prutsen kan ik alleen maar zeggen dat het erop vooruit gegaan is ! Zo goed zelfs dat ik overweeg om enigma ff aan de kant te zwieren.

 

ik zeg overweeg, want:

 

-Dat eeuwige lipsync gedoe <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />((( met een kleine fix heb je daar bij enigma absoluut geen last van, dan moet DGS dat toch ook kunnen !?!? Je zou die decoder zo uit het raam gooien als het weer zover is.

-het netwerk wordt uitgeschakeld in standby mode, ik heb graag Geckow altijd draaien zodat ik ten alle tijden van op me werk de timer kan instellen. Wat is de meerwaarde om dit uit te schakelen ? Ik kan begrijpen dat dit uit staat in de helemaal uit mode (langer dan 2 sec drukken op de powerknop)

-de snel verder en terugspoel functie is (denk ik) verbeterd, maar het is echt veel handiger als je het aantal minuten kan intypen wat je wil verder of terugspoelen. Het is nog steeds veels te onnauwkeurig.

 

Het positieve:

tot nu toe geen enkele panic gehad (formtastisch !!)

starten en stoppen is veel sneller

receiver stopt bij einde opname (of vraagt om te stoppen)

....

[Gast]

correctie, netwerk blijft als je altijd voor warme start kiest bij de Neumo settings

[robbedoeske]

Citaat:

-Dat eeuwige lipsync gedoe <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />((( met een kleine fix heb je daar bij enigma absoluut geen last van, dan moet DGS dat toch ook kunnen !?!? Je zou die decoder zo uit het raam gooien als het weer zover is.

Is die Fix niet gewoon te gebruiken voor dgs soft <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Zal wel niet anders had iemand het wel gemeld <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />