[vdr] Re: [PATCH] NPTL

[Manfred Schmidt-Voigt <manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de>]

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:38:09PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>
>
> > I work on 1.2.6 because that's what's most likely going to be on
> > SUSE Linux 9.2. I'm not sure whether it would be a good idea to put
> > the 'unstable' development snapshots on the Distribution. Well, at
> > least not as long as there there is no feature I need inside ;-)
>
> OK, I don't know if lots of people still use 1.2.6, but I can understand
> your point of view.
> You should really have a look at autopid and plugin feature, specially
> text2skin, and then you won't come back to "stable" (even if for me the
> 1.3 is more stable than 1.2.6...) :-)
>
> 	Grégoire Favre
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There are many reasons to stick to 1.2.6:

1) for me its stable - OK, every 2 or 3 days after switching channels it 
restarts, but thats stable enough
2) All what I need is working, watching TV, recording movies, cutting 
movies, replaying movies.
3) Plugins are working (mailbox, tvonscreen, mp3, mediadetection (DVD,svcd))
4) Elchi, to have a little bit of eyecandy

There are some reasons against >=1.3.7 (until now...)

1) no tvonscreen plugin ( I just quitted my TV-Hören&Sehen Abo because 
of this)
2) it's not very stable in a sense of everything is floating, new 
versions, new plugin versions, you can spend a lot of time to keep 
evreything uptodate.
3) channel list is growing with a lot of rubish channels like all these 
new game channels ( I don't know who needs this )

There some reasons for >=1.3.7

1) I can watch the "Hamburg Journal" on channel 3 (NDR HH) without 
switching to one of this ARD Digital channels
2) Having fun with all these new channels if I have really nothing else 
to do.
3) A lot of more eyecandy

So what?
I'm not a power user. I just use it and sometimes I try these new 
features. I have implemented some scripts on my system to switch very 
easy between several versions. And if I think, that the parts which I 
need, are sufficently implemented in the new version, than I will switch 
to the new version for the next period of time...

And I think, there are a lot of "normal" users, which stick to 1.2.6 
until there is a new "official" VDR release ( Look at VDR-Portal ).

cheers
Manfred
(das mußte mal gesagt werden :-) )

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