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## 1. Introduction

If you have just a desktop computer with a dvb-card and are running KDE you can have vdr running as a daemon (e.g. by init) handling all recording and use Kvdr as a viewer.

Just start kvdr, it connects to the vdr-daemon using SVDRP and lets you do anything vdr can do plus displays an overlay.

Alternatively it can be used if you have 2 dvb-cards (one in your remote-box and one in your desktop-box). You start the vdr-daemon also at your desktop and let it have the remotely mounted /video-directory for the recordings.

### 1.1 Changes

0.6 changed commandline options, added new ones, added multimode for Xv, added PiP-mode for Xv+Ovl-Modes, removed the need for amixer, now use a 768x576 modeline if available, ...

0.52 made it compatible with KDE 3 (still compiles under KDE2)

0.51 initial size can be larger than PAL/NTSC, a value of 0,0 disables this feature and lets KDE2 restore settings work if applied,
zapping through video devices now works in xv-mode as well (multimode, however, so far not ;-)
implemented mouse pointer show-on-move/autohide feature
new command line option "-x 1" completly disables overlay mode and forces xv-mode on startup
new command line option "-d 1" disables modeline switch for xv-mode (desktop resolution used instead)

0.5 fixed reconnect after driver reload, some configuration-dialog bugfixes, implemented Xv-display including deinterlacing: Key V switches to Xv-Display, D toggles deinterlacing,
(minimum size in Xv-mod is PAL/NTSC size)

0.42 fixed a silly bug in clipping code

0.41 v4l-conf is used to set up the framebuffer, Key X shows up to 4 overlays at once, fixed the bahaviour if vdr does'nt respond on SVDRP-port

0.4 kvdr now handles video device itself (see Configuration dialog), Key Z zaps to next video device, fixed kvdr.desktop

0.35 fixed missing klocale.h (caused the debian compiling problem)

0.34 kvdr automatically reconnects to vdr on restart, hopefully fixed Mandrake/Redhat compiling problems

0.33 fixed volume-restore at program startup, configuration-dialog now centered in full-screen mode, fixed KDE2-way of "Help", reintegrated DPMS handling (can be activated in kvdr.h),command line option for colour-depth

0.32 temporarily removed DPMS-handling, fixed one clipping-failure, 2 more key bindings

0.31 fixed two more problems with the overlay, does this never end :-(

0.3 switched to KDE2 and (hopefully) fixed the clipping problems

0.2 changed handling of picture sliders to instant reaction, Apply-button closes configuration dialog now, implemented Front/Rear-balance - (tested with SBLive only), fixed bug with actual channel name in grabbed images

0.1 initial test version

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