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[vdr] Re: Feature request - time shift
Michal Dobrzynski wrote:
Yes I believe that's exactly what he means. Realistically pressing pause
is not a viable solution most of the time. Having said that this feature
could be implemented easily by automatically triggering a pause right
after you switch to a new channel and stop recording when you switch
again. This does not give you all the features of the STB's but it goes
a long way towards giving you the most important aspects of the feature.
This has certain consequences, one of which would be vastly increased
wear on the hard disk. Theoretically it should be possible to set up
some sort of buffer which resides entirely in memory (and I know plenty
of people who would be willing to spend the money on a gig or two of
extra ram if it gave them such a feature without major wear on the hdd).
Don't confuse 2 different things here:
One is to start recording the currently tuned channel, so switching the
channel will start it.
The other is "record everything" so you can switch to any channel, see
the middle of a movie, finding it good and go back to the beginning.
Well, that's really hard for the disks and not very usefull (isn't this
a feature that tivo should do: thinking, which movie might be
interesting for you?).
The first one won't be a problem for the disks, windows and even linux
swapping may do more stress.
Personally I would LOVE such a feature. I am constantly finding myself
wishing I could rewind something that has already started though how
often this happens to be on the currently tuned channel I don't know.
Perhaps a feature to set the channel/channels to always record into a
ring-buffer would be nice (i.e. there are really only two channels on
which I ever expect that I may miss something). I also frequently forget
to start a recording until AFTER the program I wanted to record begins.
It almost makes me thing we need a neural network plugin to control
which is the best channel to record at any given time into such a buffer
:) i.e. never record a channel which is already being recorded by a
timer, etc
That's it. However, your 2 channel problem could be solved by a 2 timers
recording every day this 2 channels starting at 20:15 or so ;-)
Jürgen
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