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[vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream
- To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
- Subject: [vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream
- From: "Ian Wilson" <ian.wilson@adexact.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:10:04 -0400
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- Thread-Topic: [vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream
> 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
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