[Freevo-devel] Re: TV Recording Features

[Erland Lewin]

Here are some thoughts off the top of my head for desired features for 
the TV recording:

1) With my G400-TV, I don't think I'll be able to record live TV while 
watching pre-recorded TV or film with MPlayer, because of a hardware 
limitation (the Backend scaler, or YUV->RGB conversion or something can 
only be used by one of the above at a time).

Anyway, similar problems will occur if the user is watching Live TV and 
a recording starts. Some framework to model both of the above 
limitations in hardware would be good, so that conflicts can be handled 
by the UI in a nice way.

(I'm thinking of showing the user dialogs that say things like "The TV 
recorder is scheduled to record X, starting in five minutes. Your 
hardware doesn't allow you to watch films while recording from TV. Would 
you like to: A) Cancel the scheduled recording and continue watching the 
film, B) Stop watching the film, and watch the TV program instead, C) 
Stop watching the film).

2) Specify for instance that I want at all times, say, the latest CNN 
newscast recorded, but that the system doesn't have to keep old copies.

3) Background, low priority transcoding from mjpeg to mpg format to save 
disk space.





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