Hello!
I've just started using vdr 1.4.0 in Ubuntu and I have to say I'm extremely impressed and very happy with it - very nice work, well done to the author :)
I have a couple of things I'd like to suggest and wonder if they'd be up for consideration.
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? ie, I could keep pressing Up to go through the channels, seeing what is on now and next, but without actually changing channel - then press OK to change the channel once I find one to watch.
I think it would also be nice if there were more than one rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x speed, again for 8x speed?
I'd like to have a go at adding these features myself but I've not read much of the code yet. I'll see how much I can decipher in due course, but maybe someone already did these, or they're planned.
I'm suffering a problem that I have no idea how to fix, however - I've read the list archives and noted a few months ago that some posts were made about oddly-coloured OSD when using softdevice and nvidia cards. I believe this is the same problem that I currently see too; it only seems to happen with low resolution broadcasts - when the resolution drops below 640x480 or thereabouts, the OSD turns "pink" for me. On any channel with a higher resolution than this it's ok. I'm using an NVidia 7600 connected to a TV using softdevice/xv. The NVidia natively directs output to the TV since it's the only output device connected, so X is running on it at 1024x768 without any other special configuration. Changing the softdevice/hue to either 0 or 100 as was suggested in those previous posts did not fix the problem for me - I was wondering if anyone else had any tips on what I might try to fix this.
thanks very much for any replies & advice,