Hello!
I've just started using vdr 1.4.0 in Ubuntu and I have to say I'm extremely impressed and very happy with it - very nice work, well done to the author :)
I have a couple of things I'd like to suggest and wonder if they'd be up for consideration.
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? ie, I could keep pressing Up to go through the channels, seeing what is on now and next, but without actually changing channel - then press OK to change the channel once I find one to watch.
I think it would also be nice if there were more than one rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x speed, again for 8x speed?
I'd like to have a go at adding these features myself but I've not read much of the code yet. I'll see how much I can decipher in due course, but maybe someone already did these, or they're planned.
I'm suffering a problem that I have no idea how to fix, however - I've read the list archives and noted a few months ago that some posts were made about oddly-coloured OSD when using softdevice and nvidia cards. I believe this is the same problem that I currently see too; it only seems to happen with low resolution broadcasts - when the resolution drops below 640x480 or thereabouts, the OSD turns "pink" for me. On any channel with a higher resolution than this it's ok. I'm using an NVidia 7600 connected to a TV using softdevice/xv. The NVidia natively directs output to the TV since it's the only output device connected, so X is running on it at 1024x768 without any other special configuration. Changing the softdevice/hue to either 0 or 100 as was suggested in those previous posts did not fix the problem for me - I was wondering if anyone else had any tips on what I might try to fix this.
thanks very much for any replies & advice,
Chris Elsworth wrote:
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels?
Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
I think it would also be nice if there were more than one rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x speed, again for 8x speed?
Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode
Cheers,
Udo
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
Chris Elsworth wrote:
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels?
Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
Hello Udo,
Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).
I think it would also be nice if there were more than one rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x speed, again for 8x speed?
Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode
Perfect! Don't know how I missed that one, you added it when I wasn't looking ;) Much appreciated, thanks very much. That does exactly what I want.
So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)
thanks Udo,
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
Chris Elsworth wrote:
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels?
Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).
PS: vdr-pilotskin (and vdr-pilot, but I didn't try that one) look like they do exactly what I'm after in this section :) hope tht helps anyone else who was looking for that functionality.
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
Chris Elsworth wrote:
When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel; would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels, allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels?
Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
Hello Udo,
Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).
I think it would also be nice if there were more than one rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x speed, again for 8x speed?
Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode
Perfect! Don't know how I missed that one, you added it when I wasn't looking ;) Much appreciated, thanks very much. That does exactly what I want.
So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)
try to manually set the HUE to 0 or 100 instead of the default 50, we had (and solved?) this problem some time ago ..
HTH, Herbert
thanks Udo,
Chris
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:46:22AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)
try to manually set the HUE to 0 or 100 instead of the default 50, we had (and solved?) this problem some time ago ..
Hello Herbert,
Yes, I read the old mails and found the hue of 0 or 100 suggestion, and tried it (see original mail I posted) and it didn't work. I just tried it again with softdevice from cvs to double check and it didn't have any effect, so maybe I'm running into a slightly different problem.
Do you have any suggestions about how I might try to debug it?
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