[vdr] Re: A Bug which should be turned into a feature ...

[Stefan.Hagendorn@lindy.cc]

How should the script know in which mode vdr currently is .. ???? It runs 
on a Wintendo Machine far away ...
And duration sizes position isn't controllable either ...

Stefan




Karsten Mueller <kmu@ratio.de>
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On Saturday 14 September 2002 12:37, Stefan.Hagendorn@lindy.cc wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some day's ago my wife watched a extracted mpeg2 via VDR (extracted from 
a
> svcd with generated indext to replay it as "normal" recording). At this
> time a incomming phonecall was announced via OSD (my answering software
> announces calls via the mesg command in SVDRP). In this moment the 
replay
> STOPS ...... well my wife asked me if this is a new feature, but I was
> unable to reproduce it ...
>
> Wenn the Idea how this could be turned into a feature could be the
> following solution:
>
> Create a new "MESG" command which support some options like "pause
> replay", "duration", "position", "size". This wouldn't break current
> implementations which uses the old "MESG" command, and could be expanded
> by further options (like fg color or bg color) if needed.
>
> The other sollution could be to ceate a plugin which just fullfill this
> Idea .. AFAIK the current plugin system allows creation of OSD Windows.
> Maybe this could be a way to go too ..
>
> Stefan

Nice idea, but I think this is unnecessary... Why not using the available 
functionality ?

Your Script which initiates the "MESG" command could easily decide if
a pause, stop, shutdown or whatever should be done, too.

So you could do something like this:

svdrpsend.pl -d YourVDR "MESG 'your message'"

and (if required) an aditional 

svdrsendp.pl -d YourVDR "HITK down" e.g. for pausing or any other key 
combination. It's 
only up to your imagination what your scripts should do :)

JM2¢



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Karsten Mueller
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RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
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Email: mailto:kmu@ratio.de
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