[vdr] Re: VDR 1.3.9: default parameters in 'skincurses'

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

ok here's a case for multiple users to control vdr :)

I may be at home, watching something, so I start vdr with the curses skin.

I may go out, but leave vdr running.  My girlfriend might come home and 
want to watch a recording she asked me to make.  She needs to be able to 
turn on the television, press play, and watch her show.  SHe can't restart 
vdr, and I can't remember to reset it to sttng skin.

The vdr box in fact is located in the basement, and my computer is in a 
different room than the television--often times I don't watch it, I listen 
to it while I'm working.

another example:

Invariably, vdr likes to get desynced from its audio and video--an easy 
solution is to press left then right arrows and then vdr resyncs.  I'd 
like to be able to control that from the television instead of having to 
run into the other room, press the arrows, then come back, quite annoying.

_J

In the new year, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Jeremy Hall wrote:
> > 
> > oh
> > 
> > Can you run multiple 'skins' at once? that would be cool to have the OSD
> > display on the television too
> 
> No, there can only be one skin active at any given time.
> One reason for this is that the skin needs to tell VDR how
> many items it can display in a menu, and that might be different
> between various skins. And the other reason is that it only makes
> sense for _one_ user to control VDR at any given time ;-)
> 
> Klaus
> 
>