[vdr] Re: Feature request - time shift

[Michal Dobrzynski <michal@appl.com.au>]

Yes I believe that's exactly what he means. Realistically pressing 
pause is not a viable solution most of the time. Having said that this 
feature could be implemented easily by automatically triggering a pause 
right after you switch to a new channel and stop recording when you 
switch again. This does not give you all the features of the STB's but 
it goes a long way towards giving you the most important aspects of the 
feature.

This has certain consequences, one of which would be vastly increased 
wear on the hard disk. Theoretically it should be possible to set up 
some sort of buffer which resides entirely in memory (and I know plenty 
of people who would be willing to spend the money on a gig or two of 
extra ram if it gave them such a feature without major wear on the 
hdd).

I don't know how much affect this extra wear would have on the hdd but 
it doesn't take much imagination to expect vastly decreased life (for 
the hdd ;P ).

Personally I would LOVE such a feature. I am constantly finding myself 
wishing I could rewind something that has already started though how 
often this happens to be on the currently tuned channel I don't know. 
Perhaps a feature to set the channel/channels to always record into a 
ring-buffer would be nice (i.e. there are really only two channels on 
which I ever expect that I may miss something). I also frequently 
forget to start a recording until AFTER the program I wanted to record 
begins. It almost makes me thing we need a neural network plugin to 
control which is the best channel to record at any given time into such 
a buffer :) i.e. never record a channel which is already being recorded 
by a timer, etc

Having said that the more options are open to advanced users the 
better. Very few people who maintain a VDR system would consider adding 
such features to be a bad thing.

Regards,
Michal

P.S. Sorry for the rant like nature of the post. I really want such a 
feature but I really can't say how useful I would find it until I had 
the chance to try it in practice :)

On 07/01/2004, at 6:41 AM, Jürgen Schmitz wrote:
> I think, what he is asking for and what I've seen in many comercial 
> digital records it like this. They simply record everything you are 
> watching, maybe setting some kind of cut mark when switching the 
> channel and keep this recording for a configurable time, mostly up to 
> 3 hours. So this offers not only freeze and continue watching but also 
> looking back a scene - and this without having to program a timer - 
> and you can record something even when it has been started and you see 
> that this movie maybe interesting to record.


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