[vdr] AW: Wish list for VDR 1.0

["Manfred Schmidt-Voigt" <1187-184@onlinehome.de>]

Dear all + Klaus,

the VDR project went on into the right direction and I am really surprised
how much time Klaus has invested to develop this product. And also all the
others, which provided parts of it, must be thanked for this. But, as
everywhere in life, the list of whishes never ends.

So I have another (small?) wish:

Sometime ago I got a patch from Klaus for the cutting process of the
recorded videos. This patch enabled me to set the cutmarks and when I
pressed the "2" button the new files contained excactly the lenght between
the cutmarks. Thats very usefull for archiving the videos further on to CDs
in any other compressed format (I like SVCD and the ablility to watch them
on a standalone DVD set)). The CDs than end up between two scenes and not in
between the "hottest action". This patch works very well for me but its a
little bit uncomfortable to include it again and again to the new releases.
And what happened if the great developers decide to change just that part of
code?

So my wish (hurra, bald ist Weihnachten), please include it in the regular
distribution. Button "2" for the wellknown cut into near equal parts and
maybe button "3" for files up to the cutmarks.


Cheers
Manfred

for completenes I will include the patch here again in case somebody
(Klaus?) has dropped it.

>>>>
> If you want to have separate files for each part, you could try adding the
> following lines in dvbapi.c, cCuttingBuffer::Action():
>
>            // Check editing marks:
>
>            if (Mark && Index >= Mark->position) {
>               Mark = fromMarks.Next(Mark);
>               if (Mark) {
>                  Index = Mark->position;
>                  Mark = fromMarks.Next(Mark);
>                  CurrentFileNumber = 0; // triggers SetOffset before
reading next frame
>                  toMarks.Add(LastIFrame);
>                  toMarks.Add(toIndex->Last() + 1);
>                  toMarks.Save();
> +                toFile = toFileName->NextFile();
> +                if (toFile < 0)
> +                   break;
> +                FileSize = 0;
>                  }
>               else
>                  break; // final end mark reached
>               }
>            }
>
> Klaus
>>>>




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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org]Im Auftrag
> von Jean-Claude Repetto
> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. September 2001 12:43
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] Wish list for VDR 1.0
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The version number of VDR is approaching 1.0, and it is already a great
> software, but in my opinion, there are a few missing important features in
> the current version :
>
> 1) Subtitles
> It main not seem important for german or english people, since AFAIK very
> few channels are using subtitles in these countries. But in other
> countries
> such as France, Spain or Italy, lots of movie channels are
> broadcasting with
> two audio tracks, one in original language, and the second dubbed. Most
> people prefer watching movies with the original sound track and subtitles.
> According to Dave Chapman, all channels are using teletext subtitles, and
> not DVB subtitles. I know that the OSD capabilities of the
> Siemens DVB card
> are limited, that it is not possible to display full screen
> teletext pages,
> but it should be possible to display subtitles.
> In addition to display, VDR should be able to record the subtitles.
>
> 2) Recording multiple audio channels.
> I haven't tried this, but I am not sure that the current version
> of VDR can
> record several audio tracks, so that it is possible to choose the language
> at replay. Very useful for foreign language learning  _ look at
> this message
> : I really need to improve my english :-)
>
> 3) Radios
> There are lots of radio channels, all commercial sat receivers can receive
> them, I think lots of people are listening to radios, so VDR
> should be able
> to receive and record them.
>
> Jean-Claude
>
>
>
>