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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deeptho" data-source="post: 1154840" data-attributes="member: 215446"><p>Here is a list of the changes in the next release - Part 2</p><h3>Recording</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: recording not recovered from live recordings at restart.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: when crashing multiple times, second part of ongoing recording overwrites earlier recovered part.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add autorec and code for checking autorecs; Add autoreclist and add autorec dialog on various screens.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add make_unique_id for recordings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: service.find_by_key not working.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: autorec_id not correctly computed when autorelist is empty</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: autorec list not updated after adding autorec.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: reclist not updated after adding recording.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ignore database versions in recordings so that old recordings still play back. This relies on some structures remaining valid.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Added owner field to rec_t. Start new tuner_thread for each active adapter.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Move recording code from active_adapter to tuner_thread or recmgr_thread.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Clean recording status of epg records, which may not be uptodate after a crash.</li> </ul><h3>GUI improvements and changes</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Do not show filter menu when right clicking on icons column.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved display of service in frontend list.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ensure that satellite list is created when starting with empty database.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">CmdNew and CmdDelete should not be enabled on live panel.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow selecting multiple non-contiguous rows in lists by ctrl-click.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add substring matches for string filtering and make it default.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Display subscribed services in frontend list.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved display of subscriptions in frontendlist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Display shorter matype str.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Try to preserve position on screen of currently selected item.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More logical sort order for dates/times.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Receiver may only exit after all application windows have been closed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Font too big in chg selector on chgm screen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">chglist: use only 1 set of field_matchers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: assertion when selecting DVB type in frontend list.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: incorrect display of services on live screen if some service changes in the background.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: incorrect sat_pos and usals_pos set after editing lnb.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug in channel group member list.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: speak no longer working.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: group select text font cut off on live panel.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: incorrect display of various fields in autoreclist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: autorec_dialog code was incomplete: values not updated when saving.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: subtitle language selection not working.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: screen update ignores filter.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: incorrect handling of control parameters in dvb text strings</li> </ul><h3>EPG improvements</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New channel epg list: no more infow, allow selecting services, allow showing all services, show story on multiple lines.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add service_name to epg records. Also add full service_key to epg records.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: due to libiconv problem, incorrect handling of larger than usual epg stories.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: sky epg scan never ends when summary data has no corresponding title.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">clear parser_status when receiving section with bad crc</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use system tz db rather than downloaded one. Speeds startup of epg screen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Distinguish between epg and nit scanning in statistics</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">epg_scan completeness wrongly computed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoid assertion on incorrect epg data with last_table_id smaller than first_table_id</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fix channel_epg</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Implemented much faster opentv huffman decoder resulting in 2.5x faster opentv string decoder.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: gap between epg records sometimes shown as part of older epg record in grid epg</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Show also epg data from the recent past</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Remove epg records in live buffers and recordings (epg is still stored in rec_t record)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Handle case where epg_screen is None</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Increase number of epg records per section callback to avoid reallocation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Incorrect assertion, leading to chrash when processing sky epg.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow filtering in chepg_list when specific service is selected</li> </ul><h3>Compiling, debugging and installing</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Switch to libfmt fort logging, resulting in faster and more versatile code. Removed xformat and ssaccu.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reduce log verbosity.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add recmgr to logger output.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved logging.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoid accumulating error messages</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make stackstring functions gdb friendly again.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Provide fmt interface for stackstring.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Provide fmt interfaces for pts_dts_t,m pcr_t and millisonds_t.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Removed sprintf-like functions in stackstring Removed dtdebugx, dterrox, …</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Remove all operator<< based debug and error calls. Remove dtdebug, dterror, dtinfo, …</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoid cgdb crash: disable vector printing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved ndc in log messages (always show tuner number)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Do not compile unused code</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fix incorrect assertions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: Invalid memory access.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Suppress cmake warning</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Correctly indicate which symbols are exported by libneumoreceiver.so</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Default optimisation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Replace date library (removing slowness of current_timezone) by std::chrono and libfmt</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fedora38 installation instructions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">remove dead code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">stackstring: conditionally disable asserts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Added ubuntu 23.04 installation instructions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compilation fixes for fedora38</li> </ul><h3>Database code improvements</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New database access code, allowing multithreaded sharing of wtxn (tested and working on epgdb, still single thread) cursors: add readonly field.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ignore database versions in recordings so that old recordings still play back. This relies on some structures remaining valid.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New database schema for muxes and services: introduce mux_id as part of new primary for mux and remove extra_id. Add mux_id column in service list and mux list. Also, replace mux_desc with frequency and polarisation in services, allowing filtering of services based on frequency or polarisation. Add schema_version in database records and in data structures, to be able to detect major schema upgrades.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Code for handling major database upgrades from python and specifically converting to the database format needed for neumodvb-1.3.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved logging of auto upgrade.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow receiver initialization to be interrupted for major database. upgrade and then for initialization to continue.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compute upgrade_dir in python and pass to c++ code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Introduce update_record_at_cursor.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow cursor to be explicitly closed before their object is destroyed, this allowing transaction to be aborted.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add uuid in schema.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improve neumodbstats.py.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Remove fake satellites with sat_pos_dvbc and sat_pos_dvbt satellite position.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improved checking of bad strings in deserialisation code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make testmpm.py work again.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: deserialize_field_safe: correctly skip variable size fields in old record.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: cursors are not properly destroyed if no record is read with them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: txnmgr accidentally removes open transaction.</li> </ul><h3>Multithreading and task scheduling</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A new thread is now created for each tuner. This allows parallel processing of EPG on multiple muxes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Identify multiple tuner threads by adapter_no.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add thread name for recmgr.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow task_queue_t::cb() to work even when thread has exited.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Disallow pushing tasks after exit() has been called.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tuner: run_taks executed too many times.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">BUG: various bugs in txnmgr.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: Incorrect releasing of wtxn in txnmgr when called from multiple threads.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: Incorrect locking.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: accessing released memory when waiting on a future to call thread end.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: iconv code in stackstring not threadsafe.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: tasks for unsubscribing were removed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: update_lnb called from wrong thread</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: pmt_parser destroys its own fiber at exit, causing bus error</li> </ul><h3>Various improvements and changes</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add variant for service and band_scan in subscription_data to be able to store scan_id for band_scans. Could be done with service as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fix variant types in database.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add adapter_no to spectrum file name.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Introduce tune_options.tune_pars to gather restrictions imposed by sharing resources with other subscriptions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add to_str for enums in database generator. Distinghuish between various satellite bands in scan code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoid assertion in startup code.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Raise assertion when using fefd which is not open.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: division by zero.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stackstring: avoid calling constructors when copying vectors containing trivial types. Leads to large. speedup in debug build. Speeds up operator[] as well. Bug: size of zero terminated string.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug in growing memory of stackstring. Remove grow function. inline more stackstring code. Various optimizations.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">hide crc_is_correct and make inline.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Replace map with array in code managing section flagging, resulting in speedup.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Additional inlining; suppress warnings when compiled optimized; compile some code optimized by default.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Handle version numbers with additional digits.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avoid deadlock.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Needless stop() call.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bug: callcc code crashes when compiled optimized.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Efficiency: needless copies of field_matchers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Enable contains to more types of stackstrings.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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