[vdr] Re: Shutdown during recording

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Helmut Auer (HA) wrote:

HA> >JG>
HA> >JG> I just discovered the following behaviour in vdr 1.2.6:
HA> >JG> - I started a timer scheduled recording
HA> >JG> - pressed the "Power off" button.
HA> >JG> - Got the OSD warning "Recording running! Really want to shutdown?"
HA> >JG> - pressed "OK" on remote
HA> >JG> - OSD changed to "Press any key to abort shutwon"
HA> >JG> - I pressed no key but the shutdown aborted anyway.
HA> >
HA> >
HA> I never saw this, maybe I never wanted to shutdown during a recording.
HA> But if this is the case I would vote for disabling this feature.
HA> In my opinion vdr should never shutdown when a recording is active. If

I  think  the  feature  is  fine. I mean, the shutdown script knows that a
recording  is  active  and can decide by itself if the user really wants a
shutdown.

HA> e.g.  if  you want to leave a train there is no message: "our speed is
HA> 150 mph - do you really want to exit ?" :-)

and  look  at  the  last  option: "1" means "The user KNOWS what he/she is
doing and REALLY wants to leave the train at 150 mph" ;-)


        Sergei
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