[vdr] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.96

[huels@iname.com (Stefan Huelswitt)]

Am 01 Oct 2001 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>:

> Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
>> 
>> Am 30 Sep 2001 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>:
>> 
>> > Guido Fiala wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Personally i prefer to set the speed-vector to 1/8,1/4,1/2,1,3,6,12.
>> >
>> > @Stefan Huelswitt: should I change this?
>> 
>> Well, I going to do some tests tomorrow...

OK, as I wrote before 2x speed is faster than normal play (aprox.
1.7x). I agree that 3,6,12 gives a better result, but this is a
matter of personal choice as usually.

I wouldn't mind if the defaults were changed, but there are
certainly other opinions.

>> Perhaps we should get back the speed configuration in the setup
>> menu? ;-)
> 
> I'd like to avoid that. If this is actually a bug, let's fix it.

I wouldn't call it a bug (no one ever claimed that the speed
values are exact at all).

Why I had made the config options in first place was to stop this
kind of discussion. I also agree that we don't want to clutter
the options menu with too much things. On the other hand there
are allready plenty of config options which are hardly never
changed after initial config either because they are somewhat
hardware dependant (e.g. LNB settings, DiSEqC) or because they
costumize VDR for your needs (e.g. OSD size, timeouts, operation
modes). We could remove these items from the config menu, but keep
them in the config file (changeable with an editor).

The multispeed mode is a good example for this. Klaus said that
he never uses this mode. So he disables it in the setup and never
touches it again. I use the multispeed mode all the time. So I
enable it in the setup and never touches it again. I think this
apply to nearly all users and most setup options. So why waste
space in the menu for this?

We could keep a clean setup menu only with options which
need to be changed at runtime and we could introduce more config
options (like the speed settings) so that the user can adjust VDR
to his needs.

What do you think?

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