[linux-dvb] Skins

[Jörg-Oliver Todamm <jtodamm@itc-consult.de>]

> 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

I prefer to use Perl, so it would be easier to use on Windows IIS AND
Apache / Roxen under *nix.

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

We decided to use our PDAs for now, but the IrDA connections are not
very fast and stable. WLAN or Bluetooth is not available for Palm and we
have only one CE. But it works, somehow :-)

> a huge problem is performance. the net-interface is somewhat 
> unoptimized (grabbed it right
> from the manual ;-))

The PHP 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 noticed that allready, but this could be enhanced later on. If this
will be a very usefull functionality, it could be moved into vdr later
one, with its own webserver and config files (ACL etc). But this is far
away.

> 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)

This is nice for the webinterface, but we also need an improvement for
the OSD, what my suggestion was targeted on.

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

Not really. Your idea will work with DVD-RW available. Most recordings
exceed the capacity of a CD. There are also some decisions necessary to
get aceptable to perfect copies. For instance you have to decide, how to
reduce the movie (transcoding for bitrate reduction or reencoding to
mpeg1 or mpeg4). You have to check AV sync and decide to spend one disk
more or less if the last fragment is about 50% of the capacity. Right
now there are still so many decisions to be done for each case. 

Actually I play around with a thought about "Archive Profiles". You
select a recoding and a profile. The profile contains the method
[(X)SVCD,(X)VCD, DivX, OpenDivX] and the needed parameters. This job
will be sheduled and processed and you will find the iso-images in a
special folder. Recording to CD should be done manually, as you have to
change the disks :-)

So long,

J.-O. Todamm


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