[vdr] Re: A Bug which should be turned into a feature ...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Patrick Meisel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Stefan.Hagendorn@lindy.cc wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >some day's ago my wife watched a extracted mpeg2 via VDR (extracted from a
> >svcd with generated indext to replay it as "normal" recording). At this
> >time a incomming phonecall was announced via OSD (my answering software
> >announces calls via the mesg command in SVDRP). In this moment the replay
> >STOPS ...... well my wife asked me if this is a new feature, but I was
> >unable to reproduce it ....
> >
> >
> or even better: check whether you are watching a recording - if so:
> pause it. And if you are just watching TV: record the show, so that you
> can continue watching, after you finished the phone call!
> In combination w timeshift a really nice solution and a good reason to
> connect the complete household to your VDR, because you also want this
> feature, when the doorbell rings or the cake in the oven is redy :-)
> 
> Patrick

I think Patrick is making a point here: the viewer should decide whether
or not he/she wants to pause the programme when a message comes in. If
it would automatically pause whenever such a message comes in, I bet with
you that sooner or later the question would be "How can I turn this off?"...

Klaus
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