[vdr] Re: Pausing a live stream

[Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>]

Am 15.10.2001 22:29:32, schrieb Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>:

>> 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 - 
>but not at a key - only via the telnet interface of vdr. 

I believe he didn't think about just freezing the picture, but also being able to continue 
replay at the stopped scene. Something I'd call 'instant' or 'continous' timeshifting and 
which is available at some of the commercial HD-Receivers. Those receivers are always 
recording a part of the watched stream and allow things like pause/replay and 'skip back 
10 seconds' with the 'live' stream. Could be useful if you first want to watch the first 5 mins 
of an event to decide of it's worth recording. If there always exists a recording of say the 
last half hour it should be possible to generate a real recording of it that can later be cut 
to the correct size...

Greetings,  Marcus