On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:48:42AM +0100, Udo Richter wrote:
Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Actually I would press the pause button, as I usually don't want to miss anything. And then the playback should be halted anyway, no matter if display is on or off.
But you surely would power the display off, to avoid burning the still image on the CRT or plasma screen or to save the precious hours on the lamp of your video beamer? Or maybe you have a TFT screen and do not care about wasting electricity?
Actually, I have a plain old CRT that doesn't seriously suffer from burning in. (provide that I resume playback within a month or so. ;) )
And if I want to save power, I power off the CRT completely, and thats something my VDR cannot do on its own (yet). Just blanking the screen has no advantage for me.
I'll shortly make my updated vdr-relay plugin available, adapted for your shutdown rewrite patch. Then you can install a simple solid-state relay to a spare RS-232 port. I ended up installing mine inside the soon 20-year-old 14" CRT, to reduce clutter. I control everything from the bundled Hauppauge remote control unit.
http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/electronics/relay/
For the cable, I used an old mouse cord that I soldered to a mono plug. I attached a mono jack to the monitor's back together with a manual override switch. The solid-state relay is connected in series with the power switch of the monitor.
Marko