[vdr] Re: Vdr Patch to display progress bars

[Matthias Hilbig <hilbig@upb.de>]

Carsten Koch wrote:

>Matthias Hilbig wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>I programmed  a little patch for vdr to show progress bars next to the
>>epg infos in the "whats on" menu.
>>
>>Our former decoder had such a feature, I always thought it was very
>>practical...
>>
>
>I agree, this is very practical.
>It tells you very quickly how much of the particular
>broadcast is left.
>
>Unfortunately, it takes away from the space for the title.
>
>Have you tried to implement a longer but thinner progress bar
>right UNDER the title? Like an underline.
>I wonder how that looks.
>
I dont think space is a problem, most broadcast titles fit onto the 
screen, and if not you can probably guess the rest or press ok to see 
the whole title.

If you need more space, you could probably remove the channel number, 
andreas did it with his patch i think.

I think you would have to increase row heights to implement underline 
progress bars, because lines need to be at least 3 pixels thick to stop 
flickering. So there would fit less lines on the screen and the menu 
would look different to the other vdr menus...

>
>Even better than progress bars altogether would be a table
>layout that puts time on the X axis, like this:
>
>     20:00    20:30    21:00    21:30    22:00   22:30
>ARD  Tagess Film of the evening  Something else
>VOX  This broadcast          That boadcast
>...
>
right, that would be nice, but i guess theres not enough room... anyone 
willing to try nevertheless? :-)

Matthias