Hi, Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:
OK, I don't know, if this is true (never tried before), but if it is, You are right.Hi,I have an idea for another "nice-to-have" feature for VDR: Some Settop-Boxes record the current tuned channel to harddisk all the time,For *me*: No thanks. Why not? Well - You can't do a rec & inst replay of crypted channels with a single DVB card. This also means you can't use specific plugins (DVD, MP3, etc) while being tuned to a non FTA channel (if your idea would be implemented).
[...]- How would you switch channels? At the moment, VDR says channel locked if you try to switch from a recording channel
- Increased wear on the HDD. Whilist the disk is spinning all the time, your idea would mean the HDD is working all
the time VDR is running. Cutting a movie would become
[...] OK. Right.
so I could "Rewind" some time or, if disturbed by someone, timeshift the missed parts.You can already do that. Say you are watching a movie and
your friend calls you exactly when the movie suspense is
at it's highest. Just squeeze the recording button on your
RCU and pick up the phone. After finishing the call, you
[...] Right.
That would fill the harddisk really soon, so just use some kind of ringbuffer for the recording.* Recording should be some definable time backwards, maybe about 2 hoursWhy this? What are you going to do, if you say adjust it for one hour and it takes you longer than one hour to get back to the film? VDR should record as long as it takes (and less than 23hrs 59 min ;o)).
If you think of the ring buffer, it must be possible to copy a part of it to a normal vdr-record directory structure for later viewing.* It must be possible to save the recording for later viewing, so the cutting process must be available.??? If you record something it *IS* available. For me VDR should *never* delete a recording automatically (which is why my prio & lifetime are all set to 99).
No. If there is a /video/instant_replay directory, than only there are the files with the last recorded time intervalls.* Maybe start one "xxx.vdr" every 15 Minutes and delete the old yyy.vdr to keep the changes simple?
NO Definately not! First of all this would contradict
with your point "it must be possible to save..." What would be the advantage of deleting (which VDR doesn't
do right away anyway) a recording every 15 minutes
and starting a new one? For one thing it would clutter
up the video diretory.
What *I* never understood about this idea (you aren'tMaybe you watch something and after 30 minutes you decide, that it would be worth to save the program for viewing it again or show to your friends/family... So you could say: save this from 20:15 to 21:00 to "My Friend on TV" directory.
the first to mention it ;o)) is *what is it good for*????
Why do people want to buffer their stream to RAM or
HDD. Just for fear that you might miss out on 2 minutes
of the movie?