[vdr] Some suggestions...

[huillier@web.de]

Hi List!

During the work with VDR i got some ideas.
Some of them were probably already discussed (sorry).
I do not expect, that most of these features will be 
implemented in the next time. But they could probably 
improve this great piece of software,

Features for VDR:

- A nice and from my point of view a powerfull 
  feature would be a context menu in the recordings 
  menu. You can select a recorded movie, press the 
  appropiate key for the context menu
  and then you can select between several 
  hardcoded features (like delete, info,....) 
  and external scripts like these in the command 
  menu. But in opposite to the scripts in the 
  command menu the complete path to the recorded 
  movie should passed to the script. In this way 
  the user can add functions, which should work 
  only on selected recordings.

- Chapter marks like on DVDs would be helpfull in 
  some cases. A possible implementation could use 
  the cutting marks with the additional comment. 
  If you press two times the ok button during replay 
  (like the playlist in MP3 mode) the chapterlist 
  popup and you can select and jump to a chapter. 
  
Features for the MP3 mode:

- I miss a function to add complete directories 
  with subdirectories to a mp3-playlist. 
- Due to the information in the ID3-Tag it would 
  be nice to have more powerfull sort (eg. in a 
  playlist) and shuffle functions. 
  For example:
  Select a directory, a special playlist or even 
  all files and play randomly files from one 
  author, genre or whatever.
- Support for a database (single file which contains 
  path+id3tag of each file) on a removable Media 
  (eg. CD) would make these media more usable. 
  Such a database was already used in some projects. 
  One popular example is the pump project (see C't /99 
  and 10/99). For a medium which do not contain an 
  appropriate database the file should be created 
  and saved on harddisk. So next time you use the 
  CD, the database exists. 
    
Suggestion for SVCD,DVD and Mplayer mode:

- The menuitems of these playmodes should be 
  combined to one. Then the user has not to decide 
  which playmode is the correct, but only which 
  media should be played.  
  For example you can select in mainmenu an item 
  "play media" (e.g. DVD Rom) . Then the software 
  tests the selected media: 
    -> If it is a DVD then the DVD mode is used.  
    -> If it is a VCD/SVCD then  the VCD mode is used. 
    -> If its neither a DVD nor a VCD the soft could try 
       Mplayer or further modes which are probably added. 
   

What do you think?! 

Greetings
Johannes