Carsten.Koch@icem.com(Carsten Koch) 19.08.05 17:37
And: I do not see what this has to do with the LiveBuffer Patch.
Because the OP mentioned, the "Instand Replay" would be good if one did not understand what was said.
If many people are in a hurry and want to watch a recording in half the time, why would that only be useful for recordings that happen to originate from the LiveBuffer Patch?
ACK.
If there really is a majority out there that would like to watch a recording faster than in real time, maybe the feature should be a general playback feature of VDR.
Seriously: I guess it might be nice to be able to do FF and SF (within limits) *with* audio. That's what the feature described by Rainer really is.
ACK. I have such an analog(!) VCR and found it VERY convinient to "fast forward with sound" without having to watch all the time! VDR "skip 1 minute" is not a real replacement of that, because i often miss the right point where to continue. As the "FF speed with sound" was selectabel it was possible to "slow fast forward" over uninteressting parts of a discussion or a report. Watching a movie this way would be waste of time, dacore.
It was 'simply' implemented by dropping/duplicateing(*) "frames" ("probes" or "samples"), in sound too. So the tune (sound frequency) was not effected (in limits)! Sometimes an entire word was dropped, but i assume in digital world it would be possible to drop smaler samples and to do that if sound level is low, adding sone "error corrections"/interpolation.
(*) Of cause it was possible to have "slow motion with sound". Very convienient to learn foreign languages, ideally if the sound could be kept lipp sync (the analog device couldn't).
Rainer