[vdr] Re: schedule channel change

[Robert Rafael Simons <robert@vis.ethz.ch>]

Robert Rafael Simons wrote:
> 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
> >   *   start an EPG scan
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Klaus  
>
> Hi,
>
> I implemented a rudimentary version of "special" timers 
> (starttime==stoptime)
>
>  http://www.vis.ethz.ch/~robert/VDR/vdr-1.1.21.timers.0.2.diff
http://www.vis.ethz.ch/~robert/VDR/vdr-1.1.21.timers-0.3.diff

> first character of filename as suggested,
> second character:
> ? will ask for any key to abort timer.
> ! will ask for any key to _use_ timer.
>
> The prompt displays the full filename.
after removing the first two characters.
> At the moment I added the characters "@!?" to the usable characters in 
> the menus.
> This breaks the foreign langauge characters :(
> (I didn't add the proper translations)
Did add them :)

> Sorry that I didn't do it more clean, but i catched a cold this weekend :(
>
> Gruss Robert
And now I do't have a VDR-System available till the weekend

Gruss Robert



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