[vdr] Re: Little feature request for 1.3.x

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 07:15, Ari Huttunen wrote:
> Ulrich Petri wrote:
> > Ari Huttunen wrote:
> > 
> >>- I'd like to be able to set a recording on channel X when currently
> >>   recording on channel Y (on a different channel bundle). I 
> >>do *not* want
> >>   to use VDR admin, but the OSD.
> > 
> > 
> > What do you mean by this? In the Schedule Menu you can set a Timer for every
> > progam anytime.
> 
> Well, I stand corrected. I never noticed that if I press yellow/Next
> and then select another channel, and press yellow/Schedule, I get the
> schedule of that other channel. Note that green/Now does not really
> work there because the other channel(s) might not be having any program.
> 
> Guess who's been pressing green/Now, green/Next, and getting back to
> where he started, never noticing the Schedule in the interim step.

All this is even easier with the calendar plugin.

> 
> You know, this reminds me of Zork.. Excellent games those were.
> 
> > Or you can enter the data by hand in the Timers menu.
> 
> Need I respond to this? :)
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>Also, the down-button in 
> >>the EPG menu
> >>   works oddly; when it goes down to the next page, the 
> >>top-most program
> >>   on the next page should be displayed, not the bottom-most one.
> > 
> > 
> > This is a setup option: Scroll Pages (or so)
> 
> Interesting. I think I'd figured that out if I had used
> English menu language, but I'm actually using Finnish,
> and "Valikkojen sivutus" makes little if no sense to me. I'd say
> that it sort of is a correct translation, but still makes
> little sense. Not that I could translate it better.
> 
> I'm not certain which setting is the default, but you can already
> scroll whole pages with right/left, so using the up/down to also
> scroll pages is just overkill.
> 
> My usual opinion about menu options is that they are evil. Especially
> this option is so unimportant, even if it is set the wrong way (i.e.
> wrong way in my opinion).
> 
> >  
> > 
> >>- I can't understand why on earth directory names should have ':' in
> >>   them. I'd rate that as a bug. I know the VFAT (whatever) 
> >>compile option
> >>   removes that, but since I'm actually recording on EXT3, I 
> >>didn't want
> >>   to enable it (it may do something else too). The problem 
> >>is on my secondary
> >>   archival, which is done on FAT, and then I can't just copy 
> >>the directory
> >>   structure without renaming the interim directories.
> > 
> > 
> > So actually you are using fat. Use the VFAT compile option.
> >  
> 
> I just grepped through the code, and since the *only* difference
> is in file naming, I will.
> 
> Well, FAT sucks, but still *no-one* needs that colon in the directory
> name.
> 
> > 
> >>And LIRC freezes occasionally for about half a 
> >>minute, although
> >>   I don't know what actually freezes.
> > 
> > 
> > This problem is often caused by vdradmin if you have very much epg data
> > (which takes a long time to transfer).
> 
> I'm not using vdradmin, but there seems to be 132 kB of epg.data.
> 
> >  
> > 
> > Ciao Ulrich
> > 
> > PS: Reading the manuals *does* help.
> > 
> 
> Quoting one of the user interface design books I read last year:
> "Users don't have manuals, and even if they do, they won't read them."
> 
> The point is not to say no to manuals, but as much of the system
> should be usable without them as possible.
> 
> Ari
> 
> 
> 



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