[vdr] Re: "stand-by-recording"

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 6:45 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: "stand-by-recording"
> 
> > Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rene Caspari" <debian@ahrcas.net>
> > > To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 1:23 PM
> > > Subject: [vdr] Re: "stand-by-recording"
> > >
> > > > Am Sun, 03 Nov 2002, schrieb Ulrich Petri:
> > > >
> > > > > > I want to record in background the same, what i'm watching - but
> the
> > > > > > recordingfile should has a static size (for example 1gb).
> > > > > > So if the file is full, i want to delete the beginning of the file
> > > > > > like i write new data at the end:
> > > > > could pause live tv right away without first switching to transfer
> mode,
> > > > > and also even baetter you can rewind live tv, which normaly is not
> > > > > possible, since you normaly dont know that an interesting scene will
> > > > > show up in advance.
> > > > Yes, this was my intention.
> > >
> > > It's already on Klaus' ToDo.
> >
> > Just for clarity: what I'm going to implement is an "instant pause"
> feature.
> > I have no plans on always buffering the live signal.
> >
> 
> By the way, I'm constantly running into "buffer empty" and A/V-distortions
> with DVB-S Rev. 1.3 in transfer-mode. What about buffering 10 seconds in
> transfermode?

I don't think that that would change anything.
It may help to make sure it buffers just a "little" more.
Try removing the comments around the code marked

   //XXX+ Maybe we need this to avoid...

in transfer.c. For a quick test you could also start Transfer Mode and then
press "Pause" to stop replaying for a moment. Then press "Pause" again to
continue. Do the distortions still happen then?

Klaus
-- 
_______________________________________________________________

Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10
CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40
Hofmark 2                               Email:   kls@cadsoft.de
D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de
_______________________________________________________________


-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to listar@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.