[vdr] Re: feature suggestion

[gfiala@s.netic.de]

> I thought about this at some point when I was looking into STB-type
> timeshifting. The problem was that in the current state of affairs, VDR
> is not involved in handling the MPEG stream when viewing live (unless
> you are using transfer mode for some reason, e.g. watching an encrypted
> channel). So you would have to force VDR into transfer mode for all
> live
> watching, buffer the stream, and handle instant replays. It mgiht not
> be
> too much actual new code, but I'm not sure I want to "sacrifice" my
> budget card for this feature (of course it should be configurable, and
> maybe disabled automatically if a timer is triggered...).

Is this required? One could simply buffer the stream in parallel and only jump
to transfer mode if you actually want to go back. Not even if you dump the 
buffer to disk.

> 
> About STB-type timeshifting: I hacked together functionality which
> would
> start an instant recording, start replaying that recording, and switch
> to pause mode immediately wheb pressing a single button (I added a
> button to the config as well :-/). There were some timing issues, i.e
> if
> the replay was started too soon, the recording file would be empty and
> the replay would stop before it even started etc. I haven't done
> anything to the code for over half a year now. Maybe I should look into
> it again ;)

Think would be a nice feature...