Hello all,
it's not perfect (yet) but might interest some people :-)
With this modification you can play recordings with cut marks as if they were already cut. I.e. when reaching a cut-out position, replay automatically jumps to the next cut-in position as with the "9" key. So you can watch auto-cut recordings without wasting space for a fully cut version, or just test your cut marks.
This skip-edit-mode is turned off by default. You have to activate it for each replay by pressing the "1" key. Jumping with the "green" or "yellow" key deactivates skip-edit-mode temporarily, jumping with the "7" or "9" keys re-activates it. (This originally was due to an implementation detail, but it makes sense: perhaps you want to jump to positions just before the cut-in or after the cut-out and resume normally at the cut position, just to see what's around the cut.) The "3" key turns skip-edit mode off.
Bugs/ToDos: - It looks like the jumps happen too early, a few frames before the actual cut point. I suspect this is caused by an unfortunate interaction with some buffering; it's worse with the xine plugin which itself has buffers. There should be a way to do a cDvbPlayer::Goto() without throwing away buffers... - Display what's going on on the OSD. - Make skip edit mode configurable as default via a menu. - The "8" key doesn't work well here: it jumps just before the next cut-in position, rather than before the more desirable cut-out. (It's just this way in the original VDR, probably easy to change.)
To be found at http://sites.inka.de/bigred/sw/vdr.html
Olaf