[vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream

["Ian Wilson" <ian.wilson@adexact.com>]

> 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.
> 

So there is no way to do it with one card?  Is this a limitation
of the DVB driver or of VDR?

Regards,

Ian