[vdr] Re: VPS

[Laz <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 16:10, Sean Carlos wrote:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
> >How reliable is VPS on UK Freeview, and how does VDR deal with it? IME
> >PDC (is that the same thing as VPS?) on my analogue VCR was useless
> >because it would still never know if a programme was running late and
> >miss the ending (for a programme not to start at least a minute behind
> >schedule is incredibly rare on all UK channels).
> >
> >So what does VDR do as a fallback? I suppose the safest thing would be
> >to start the recording early, just in case, then restart it if it
> >detects a valid VPS code, then overrun by the customary 10 minutes if it
> >doesn't receive another code at the end.
>
> Tony, check out the README.vps document in the VDR distribution. It
> explains how VDR manages VPS events. I have found it works as promised
> for the German channels; I don't have experience with Freeview.

I'm not sure if VPS events are broadcast in UK DVB-T. If you have any luck, 
let me know! I'll give it a go myself, too.

Cheers,

Laz