On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:44:26PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
I have earlier used pausing a recording for suspension and the pause sign in OSD gives good indication about vdr state. Would it be possible to optionally display a "Suspended" message in OSD when in suspended mode? It would help my family members using vdr to notice that home AV routings are setup correctly and vdr video & audio just needs to be activated by pressing power key from remote.
I will think about that. It is not straightforward, because the suspension works at a very low level, completely independently of the high-level player functions. (Can you say 'hack'?)
The "Suspended" message would have to change location every few seconds, in order to avoid burning the message on the screen. I'm afraid I have no idea how to do this in vdr.
With softdevice & x11 it could be also feasible to allow xscreensaver to handle the screen when entering suspended mode and vice versa when leaving suspension but that would probably need to go to softdevice x11 plugin internals.
Yes, that definitely is in the domain of softdevice.
What could be done relatively easily is a patch to softdevice that would listen to cStatus::SetSuspended() and activate or deactivate the screensaver accordingly.
Marko