[vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream

[Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:47:53PM -0400, Ian Wilson wrote:

> > > I was just wondering if there where any patchs for VDR that 
> > allow it to
> > > pause live tv.
> > 
> > This is called "snapshot" or "grab image" and already partly 
> > inside vdr - 
> 
> "grab image" only takes a snapshot.  I would like to be able to pause
> the show I am watching for say 2 minutes.  Then come back and resume
> watching my show.  But when I resume, the feed would be coming from a
> file
> that was used as a buffer during the 2 minutes it was paused.  
> So it would continue to read from the buffer until the user gave it the
> chance 
> to catch up to the original transport stream or VDR is closed.

What you mean is called "time shifted viewing" and you can do it with 2 or
more DVB cards. You need to record your channel with the second card, and
you can view it time-shifted with the first one.

        Matthias