[vdr] Re: alternative channel switching with 1.2.2

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> Once uppon a time i had a patch that implements an alternate way
> of channel switching.
> Where would it be useful to start to implement?
> 
> To switch to channel 12:
> 
> Current way:
> 
> Enter 1, nothing happen, display "1"
> Enter 2, nothing happen, dispaly "2"
> wait 3seconds , nothing happen, only "12" ist displayed
> 5th econd, switch to channel 12 starts.

There must be something wrong with your system.
The timeout for entering digits is one second (not 5)
and channel switching is typically done in 0.5 to 1 second
(unless you have some heavy DiSEqC machinery).

> Alternate way:
> Enter 1. tuner will be immidiately directed to tune channel "1", display 1
> Enter 3. tuner will be immidiately directed to tune channel "12". display 12
> wait 2 second for a 3rd or 4th key while 12 is already tuned.
> 
> The "advantages are:
> 
> The user can given 10 time for each key press, so he
> don't has to hurry.
> 
> The user has not to wait 10 sec for a reaction when he has
> finshed
> 
> The user "sees" that some thing is hapening.
> 
> 
> Of cause it is not usefull to start a dish move on the first key
> press and turn back after the second ;-)
> But that cam be handeld teh way the user wants,
> For example:
> If VDR detects a dish move to be done, it could
> interact with the user, who may press "OK" to confirm the
> dish move.
> 
> An sesond option would be to "limit" the number of channel digits.
> If one defines only 2 digit channel nummer, the VDR can
> react with lesser delays:
> The user may configure that after the frist/second/third digit
> the tuning process should start.
> If there are only 2 channel digits allows, the 3 number entred
> should go into the first place.
> 
> Enter 1, display "1"
> Enter 3, display "13"
> Enter 4, display "43" or ("34")
> Enter 6, display "46" or ("46")

My personal opinion: this is way too complex, and immediately switching
channels might confuse users.

Klaus


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