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Today a final version of LinuxMCE-VDR integration was officially announced. Main achievement of that release is possibility to watch different channels on the different media directors (before it was possible to watch one channel to all MDs). Additionally the stability of VDR and support of remote controls (especially MCE remote) were improved.

Pre-compiled binaries for 32- and 64-bit are available here. Inside archive you can find README file explained the process of installation of packages.

UPDATED: According to information from the LinuxMCE forum developers cleaned VDR sources. So, now original VDR source can be used to build its plug-ins.

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If you don’t want to scan channels on your VDR box by yourself there is a place where the fresh channels.conf can be found. Site VDR Settings offers a channels.conf for the most famous satellites for DVB-S and DVB-S2. Additionally there is a list of transponders taken from Lyngsat and Kingofsat.

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A few days ago new version of XMLTV was released. The changes of v. 0.5.52 are following:

• tv_grab_uk_rt: lots of improvements.. should upgrade
• tv_grab_re: better season/episode number handling
• tv_grab_be: responding to source site changes
• tv_grab_fr: better title detection
• tv_grab_huro: now generates stop times
• tv_grab_na_dtv: responding to source site changes
• tv_grab_pt: responding to source site changes
• tv_grab_za: improve episode tags
• not working, removed: tv_grab_il, tv_grab_nl_wolf
• some bugfixes and polish.

XMLTV is used in the PVR software such VDR or MythTV to get and parse EPG data.

[via MythTV News]

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30th of June was released a new version of VDRAdmin-AM - alternative web interface for VDR. The v3.6.2 contains following major changes:

• No need to set the VFAT option in VDRAdmin-AM any longer as both filename codings will be searched for.
• Include UTF8 locales by default.
• Added support for modifying EPGSearch blacklists.
• Show stream and switch buttons in prog_summary on channels without EPG information.

Additionally a few translations was added and minor bugs were fixed.

VDRAdmin-AM is a fork of VDRAdmin. It became more popular than its parent. It’s a result of good localization, quick bug fixing and implementing requested features, support of all well-known web browsers.

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Finally I gathered oneself up to upgrade my LinuxMCE 0710 Beta 4 up to the latest stable version. The point to do that was VDR 1.6.0. It’s much better then 1.4.7. Especially because it supports UTF-8. So, Russian EPG is displayed now correctly on the on-screen menu. Another small but useful improvement in the integration with VDR is showing information about the currently played channel on the Orbiter.

The upgrade was performed perfectly. All my data and preferences were saved and transferred to the new system. I just installed a few packages such lcdproc and vdradmin-am. Next to build and configure stream-server and CI + CAM.

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