[vdr] Re: schedule channel change

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:21:50AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Andreas Henden wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Is it possible too schedule a channel change and not record it. Some
> > times I start to watch a show and I forget that I'm sitting and waiting
> > on another show that is going on another channel.
> > 
> > Another thing that follows is maybe you could have a file with program
> > titles you like. So when a program start let us say seinfeld or
> > something start you get a message on the screen. "Seinfeld on channel
> > ....." And then you could press OK or something to change to that
> > channel.
> > 
> > Does anyone have the skills and the time to program a plugin for that?
> 
> I've been following this thread and its various suggestions.
> >From where I stand I'd say that such a "special" timer would be best
> implemented by setting start time equal to stop time (which means this
> is a "zero length" timer and thus shall not result in any recording).
> If a timer is identified as "special", its function will be determined
> by the text in the "filename" field. That has the benefit that the user
> can see directly in the Timers menu what the individual "special" timers
> will do, and all existing tools will also be able to handle this. The only
> change that might be necessary is that a timer with start==stop time will
> have to be handled as "not recording" instead of "recording 24 hours".
> 
> As for the function encoding: we don't need to start the filename with "@@"
> or so, since it is already clear that this is a "special" timer (start==stop).
> The first character of the filename should encode the special function, like
> 
>   @   switch to the channel given in the timer

As somebody else said for this timer(-type) you (may) need the end-time
to hinder VDR from auto-shutdown or something in this direction.

>   *   start an EPG scan

The Question is "start EPG-scan" or "Jump to this channel for EPG-scan".
Maybe with a 10-30 (/VDR-Default-Value) seconds duration to give enough
time for gathering the EPG-info.

What makes "Jump to this channel" sexy is that you can specify only the
channels/(/Transponders) that interest youself. You maybe need a few of
this timers but i don't see a problem here as you need to generate them
only once. (As i said before the "Repeating-timers" fit best for this
special timer-type)

The Advantage of a "Switch to channel" with a stop-time is that an
epg-scan-timer wouldn't interfere with this timer. (As long as the Prio
is correct(tm). When the EPG-Scan has higher Prio then VDR would/could
jump back after the obove meantioned timeout)

> If the second character is a question mark (?), this means that the user
> shall be prompted, and only if he pressed Ok shall the given function be
> executed.
> 
> Any text following these characters can be used in the user prompt.






Bis denn

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