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

[Karsten Mueller <kmu@ratio.de>]

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Oops, yep...you're definitely correct, I missed the context aspect...

On Saturday 14 September 2002 13:20, Stefan.Hagendorn@lindy.cc wrote:
> 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>
> Sent by: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org
> 14.09.2002 13:06
> Please respond to vdr
>
>
>         To:     vdr@linuxtv.org
>         cc:
>         Subject:        [vdr] Re: A Bug which should be turned into a
> feature ...
>
> 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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with best regards
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Karsten Mueller
Softwaredevelopment / Keyaccount Manager
RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
Admiralitaetstr. 59
20459 Hamburg
Email: mailto:kmu@ratio.de
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