I patched VDR 1.3.30 so that audio/video playback can be suspended by pressing a remote control key, no matter which menu is open.
This patch can also power off the monitor and speakers when playback is suspended. That part is behind another #ifdef.
Last but not least, the new "Suspend" key can be used as an intelligent power-off key. If this feature is enabled and the playback is suspended by pressing the key, and no other key is pressed within a timeout (currently SHUTDOWNWAIT, but later it'd be be a configuration option independent of SHUTDOWNWAIT), vdr will shut itself down. If there are pending timed recordings, the shutdown timer will start counting at the end of the last recording.
The patch is available at http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/index.en.html#suspend as http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-suspend.patch. It has been tested with the vdr-softdevice and vdr-dxr3 plugins (thanks to Martin Wache and Ville Skyttä) but not with full-featured cards.
Feedback is greatly appreciated. I would love to see this feature included in the next stable release of VDR.
Marko Mäkelä
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:17:13AM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
I have now made the suspend-to-shutdown timeout a configuration option in the Setup/Replay menu. Another thing I improved is that cDevice::Clear() will only be invoked when viewing live stream. Thus, the Suspend key can pause a recording without dropping any frames.
The new patch is at
http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-1.3.30-suspend-0.1.patch
as I figured out there will probably be follow-up versions. If nothing else, translations in i18n.c will be needed. Also, it'd be nice to blank the video overlay on dxr3 and possibly full-featured cards.
Could some FF card owner please test this patch?
Marko
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Marko Mäkelä