Hello vdr readers,
is there a possibility to contact the femon-plugin developer? I want to give any feature request for make the femon plugin accessible for braille users.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Sebastian Dellit wrote:
is there a possibility to contact the femon-plugin developer? I want to give any feature request for make the femon plugin accessible for braille users.
The necessary contact information can be found in plugin's source package.
A few years ago I had an idea to provide audible tone that varies according to current signal level. Unfortunately, I encountered some problems while implementing it and the feature never saw the daylight:
- I couldn't get the live tv video and signal tone work at the same time, when using budget cards and full featured card as tv out. - DVB drivers signal strength and signal-to-noise values works correctly only for a few cards. There're plenty of cards that provides inverted or zero strengt values.
However, I implemented several SVDRP commands into the plugin and those commands can be used to provide the above mentioned functionality via an external application in a similar manner as in 'femonspeak'. [1]
If you'll have a neat idea about new features, just drop me an email.
[1] http://taros666.homepage.t-online.de/
BR, -- rofa
Hello Rolf,
do you speak german?
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Sebastian Dellit wrote:
is there a possibility to contact the femon-plugin developer? I want to give any feature request for make the femon plugin accessible for braille users.
The necessary contact information can be found in plugin's source package.
You means in the README file? All right. I have only visit the homepage of the plugin. There are no contact information. :-(
A few years ago I had an idea to provide audible tone that varies according to current signal level. Unfortunately, I encountered some problems while implementing it and the feature never saw the daylight:
The idea sounds good.
- I couldn't get the live tv video and signal tone work at the same time, when using budget cards and full featured card as tv out.
- DVB drivers signal strength and signal-to-noise values works correctly only for a few cards. There're plenty of cards that provides inverted or zero strengt values.
However, I implemented several SVDRP commands into the plugin and those commands can be used to provide the above mentioned functionality via an external application in a similar manner as in 'femonspeak'. [1]
Femonspeak soundss also good. I will look on this.
If you'll have a neat idea about new features, just drop me an email.
I hope my idea is simple. many Any users use a braille display and speech to access the vdr. Is it possible to create a femon skin which show the information in plain text on the OSD? E. g. the developer of the lastfm-plugin has include a function. You can change between graphic and text display. If you select the text version all informations (title, track etc.) can read with an braille display. The plugin also use a function to select the refresh rate of the display. If you select "0" you can always refresh the display manual. The femon plugin IMHO needs a simular function.
What do you means? It is possible?
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sebastian Dellit wrote:
I hope my idea is simple. many Any users use a braille display and speech to access the vdr. Is it possible to create a femon skin which show the information in plain text on the OSD? E. g. the developer of the lastfm-plugin has include a function. You can change between graphic and text display. If you select the text version all informations (title, track etc.) can read with an braille display. The plugin also use a function to select the refresh rate of the display. If you select "0" you can always refresh the display manual. The femon plugin IMHO needs a simular function.
I'm not familiar with Braille displays, so how does it detect text in order to translate it to speech? Femon is drawing text with the same OSD methods as the core VDR, so if you can hear VDR's menus, you should be able to hear the femon menus also. The default refresh rate is quite high, but you can tweak it in plugin's setup menu. So the only problem might be the massive amount of infomation shown on current configuration.
If I understood you correctly, you'd like to get only essential signal/stream information on a simple menu that can be refreshed on demand? Now the real question is, what kind of information is essential for you?
BR, -- rofa
Hello Rolf and all readers,
sorry, older mail ...
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1:14:15 AM Rolf Ahrenberg wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Sebastian Dellit wrote:
I hope my idea is simple. many Any users use a braille display and speech to access the vdr. Is it possible to create a femon skin which show the information in plain text on the OSD? E. g. the developer of the lastfm-plugin has include a function. You can change between graphic and text display. If you select the text version all informations (title, track etc.) can read with an braille display. The plugin also use a function to select the refresh rate of the display. If you select "0" you can always refresh the display manual. The femon plugin IMHO needs a simular function.
I'm not familiar with Braille displays, so how does it detect text in order to translate it to speech? Femon is drawing text with the same OSD methods as the core VDR, so if you can hear VDR's menus, you should be able to hear the femon menus also. The default refresh rate is quite high, but you can tweak it in plugin's setup menu. So the only problem might be the massive amount of infomation shown on current configuration.
I have test the femon again.
I'm sorry but I can't read any kind of information. The screen is blank.
If I understood you correctly, you'd like to get only essential signal/stream information on a simple menu that can be refreshed on demand? Now the real question is, what kind of information is essential for you?
What kind of information is available?
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Rolf Ahrenberg -
Sebastian Dellit