[vdr] Re: addign STB-style timeshifting to VDR

["Anton Schegg" <anton.schegg@web.de>]

I agree with Klaus. Keep it simple.
Anyway - some enhancements could make watching tv with VDR even more
exciting:
Pause: press pause button (could be same as used in replay mode) on your
remote -> VDR could almost do the same as "Menu - Red" does today.
In addition to that, VDR could immediately go into play mode of that
recording, starts playing the first frame and then it pauses. In the
meanwhile VDR records as usual.
Now you are in play mode and you can continue watching after your break.
A further enhancement for ending the play mode could be that VDR knows
that the recording was not invoked by a timer and in this special case
it would automatically delete the recording after leaving play mode.
Maybe the behavior is configurable: 3 options are possible here:
 1) ask user if recording should be deleted
 2) don't ask but while watching timeshifted the user can press a button
at the remote to mark the recoring for "keep" -> VDR doesn't delete
recording after leaving play-mode.
 3) delete it after watching without asking the user


Anton


-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Schmidinger [mailto:Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2002 18:16
To: vdr@linuxtv.org
Subject: [vdr] Re: addign STB-style timeshifting to VDR



Just a quick note: as everybody can probably see this is most likely
going to become something extremely complex, complicated and error
prone. Not that I'm trying to stop anybody from developing things they
want to have. I just want to say: Keep It Simple!!!!

If this is supposed to ever enter the main VDR line, it's gotta be a
simple solution. I'd hate to end up with a VDR that is potentially
unstable just because of one extremely complex feature. Everybody should
think very carefully and ask themselves: "do I *really* need all this?".

Just my two cents...

Klaus
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