fftv / News: Recent posts

0.8.0
- fftv now uses v4l2 if it is available.
- Bug in the display of back border cropping for TV desktop option
- Added window decorated and override-redirect options to TV desktop, but stay-on-top still doesn't work for KDE enviroment.

0.7.8:
- rpm build
0.7.7:
ehancements:
- Black border cropping is now applied to window size other than 640x480, but you can adjust the values only in 640x480 size (e.g. fullscreen). It is useful to TV desktop options.
- Add 240x180 size to TV desktip options
- OK is now the default button of of TV desktop options window. You can now just press if the currents vaules are ok.

ehancements:
- Mouse pointer is confined within the TV window in fullscreen mode.

bugfixes:
- The options of TV desktop is not loaded correctly.
- Sometimes you have to click the mouse button in fullscreen mode, otherwise the keyboard doesn't respond.

0.7.5:
ehancements:
- The state of video source can now be saved.
bugfixes:
- Set video source doesn't work if v4l2 driver is used.

0.7.4:
- Use RGB24 for grab and X11_SHM_RGB32 for display if your display card doesn't have Xvideo/I420 support.
- More rpm build fix.

0.7.3:
- More rpm build fix. Thanks to Dag Wieers (dag (at) wieers dot com)
- Radio scans no stations bugfix. Thanks to Z_God.... read more

ehancements:
- Playing of the file that has been recorded or is being record.
- 'Stay on top' and 'Sticky' in Config -> Deskop options.
- Countdown shutdown. Shutdown your PC when the time is up. Press Alt-C to use it.

bugfixes:
- redircet the stdout of scheduled recording to /dev/null so that tcron will not send the log file.
- Fixed GUI show display problem in grab mode.
- Fixed a bug of gtk-on-screen-display caused by Mandrake Galaxy theme.

0.6.3:
enhancements:
- You can now use numbers in keypads to set radio stations.

bugfixes:
- Editting Channel name caused coredump.
- If you use cropping of black border, the image of recorded output is blurred.
- PAL croppings : bottom/top black border
- Volume scaler & MTS label in tv control pannel is not updated when switching to a new channel.
- Window of scheduled recording can now be invoked in radio UI.
- Key 6,7,8 cannot be used to set predefined radio stations.
- If you do border adj and switch to fullwin, then you cannot do border adj anymore.... read more

0.5.4
enhancements:
- You can now use grab mode to display tv. It requires XVideo YUV420P(I420). You can use overlay for normal display and grab mode for recording. If the signal strength is weak, ovleray mode is less noisy than grab mode. More CPU load causes more noise. On the other hand, for bt878, the frame rate for overlay display drops to less than 15 while recording; so grab mode is preferred.
- By default fftv uses hardware overlay to display. If your system freezes, your system probably has a problem with overlay. You can
export FFTV_DISP_GRAB (bash)... read more

0.5.3
- The change in 0.5.2 cause a deadlock in mozilla. It is fixed now.
- Press F10 or My-Home to invoke html browser to view the TV schedule

0.5.2
- channel numbers of channel list of europe west updated ( Thanks to suriya mohan <suriyamohan23)
- Use XF86VidModeSwitchToMode to switch resolution. This also overcome a bug in XFree86 4.3: (ctrl-alt-+) doesn't work if you also use tv-out.
- Font of channel no changed to 'utopia'. I don't know why 'Helvetica' has rough edge on Mandrake 9.1. Please modify status-button.c as you wish.
- gimp/screeshot deadlock is really fixed this time.

0.5.1
- key mapping file were not installed correctly.
- fixed deadlock with mozilla and gimp/screenshot
- separate time from channel/time display.
- add CenterMousePointer function ( F key)

- gtk 2.x user interface
- use fftv and ffradio to start (symbolic link to ffmpeg).
- reminder arguments changed, you must specify tv/radio
- to pass arguments to fftv/ffradio, put them at
~/.fftv.states/conf-tv
~/.fftv.states/conf-radio

0.4.2
- Fix a bug in Add/Delete channel
- Reset screensaver on start-up (for TV reminder)
- Fixed the compiling error on Mandrake 9.0
- Center the 640x480 screen on Gnome of Mandrake 9.0.

0.4.1
- Channel scan Alt-s has been restored.
- A untialized memory bug in reminder has been fixed.
- Call XInitThreads. I hope this will improve stability.
- Screensaver is turned off while recording
- Channel monitor(subwindow): You can use this to wait for the end of advertisement.

- Frequency tables are stored in the directories
~/fftv.freq
~/ffradio.freq
- You can set channels not in the tables above.
- Fine tune of TV frequency
- fftv now also support X keyboard multi-state keys mappings
- You can use left/right to adjust volumes.
- Fixed the image leftover after exiting.
- While recording, you can display elapse time and time available of free space.

ffmpeg-tv is renamed to fftv