[vdr] Re: feature request: Instant Replay

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

Patrick Cernko wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> vdr's timeshifting feature(s) are quite impressive by now: You can
> simple watch a programed recording (if you came home earlier as expected
> :-) ) or "pause" the current live picture (to answer a telephone call).
> 
> What you cannot is making a replay of the last few seconds (in case you
> missed ore did not understand something or you simple want to see "the
> goal" again).
> 
> But this could be achieved using a small ring-buffer of the last  --
> let's say -- 30 seconds in memory (of course this should be adjustable
> for hosts with smaller or bigger memsize). Whenever you want to replay
> something, you only have to press the "InstantReplay"-button and you
> will see the last 30 seconds again. The picture will be played
> timeshifted then, as long as you do not fast forward until the live
> position.
> 
> Maybe it is also possible to start a "direct recording" when starting
> InstantReplay which of course should store the memory ring-buffer at first!
> 
> I know, there could be one problem: To enable InstantReplay, vdr must
> continuously read the mpeg stream. As this implies "transfer mode"
> (correct me if I'm wrong) the DVB-card would produce more heat. So the
> opportunity (= option) to switch this feature off and stay in playback
> mode if InstantReplay is not possible/wanted could possibly solve this
> problem.

This has been discussed several times in the past.
I don't think that it's worth going through all the trouble
for a feature that will be unused 99.99% of the time.
Besides, it would most likely slow down channel switching.

Klaus


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