[linux-dvb] Re: Skins

[Christoph Rauch <christoph.rauch@pfaffenhofen.de>]

Jörg-Oliver Todamm schrieb:

> Actually I only colleced some stuff I want to take a look at, but my
> intention is to start with a web-base approach first, using SVDRP and
> perl. Especially EPG-Stuff like TVTV needs some space that the OSD can
> not provide. As SVDRP may not change during the transit from 0.7x to
> 0.8, this will be no waste of time (I hope :)

last week i did a quick PHP web-interface to vdr (via SVDRP).

as far as i am there are:
- channel-listing as drop-down-menu
- all VDR buttons implemented in forms
- every page-load a current snapshot of the TV

i'm now into programming timers and stuff with forms and menus.

TODO:
- displaying EPG data (nicely formatted)
- maybe a "scan-channels-and-display-channels-as-thumbnails"-feature

then it would be a really great remote control for this expensive web-pads. =;-)

a huge problem is performance. the net-interface is somewhat unoptimized (grabbed it right
from the manual ;-))
i also realized that if a connection to vdr is open, no second connection can be made. but
thats a very, very minor problem. (if one at all)


i recently dreamt about a sort of tree-view of the recordings. say if you have 20 recordings
with the same name, there would be:

Recording
  +---This Week
       +-Monday
       +-Today
Recording
   +---Today

and if you browse with the cursor down the list additional info would be shown (think of
rollover)

ahh... by the way. if we are dreaming allready: why not a "burn this recording to cd-r"
feature? that would be really great. :-))

> and you can expand or collapse this one with OK. Also a function "Replay
> all sequel items from current location" to record to tape more easily.
>
> I don't know if this part of vdr is item to be changed while Klaus
> adapts to the new drivers.
>
> Another item to change is the EPG file. I would like to add some more
> informations from other sources (like TVTV or IMDB). I also tried to
> scan the epg file and a movielist file with movies I want to record as
> they are available on tv. Could be an enhancement to mastertimer.

christoph



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