Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?
The relook400s for example has an option (it can be turned on or off) where a 30 minutes buffer of live tv is recorded to allow to rewind livetv. This recording is automatically deleted when you zap to another channel, hence the Wife Acceptance Factor is very high. Whenever my wife sees in vdr 'channel not available' she freaks out and waits for me to come back from work, and then nags how vdr is not working again. It is nearly always instant recordings causing this and she is intimidated by the routing of deleting the recoding with the @ and then zapping. VDR is wonderful but it would not hurt to have options (I repeat options, that can be enabled only if desired) that make it more acceptable to non-technical users. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? (more and more OT)
VDR User a écrit : 512MB won't get you far with hdtv. It won't even get you 5 minutes worth. Needless to say, you'd need at least a few GB of dedicated ram to even bother with it. At least ram is cheap now as you've pointed out (especially if you take advantage of MIR's). After seeing how much money I was wasting every month in my electric bill just by not setting a sleep timeout on my harddrives, ram is the only place I'd want any caching like that to take place if I were interested in buffering live tv. Can you give tell us how much ? I roughly estimated the cost here in France : 1W on 24/7/365 costs 1€/year. Leaving a green HD on 24/7 (Western Digital 1TB GP) costs me 5€/year here. Leaving the whole server on (4 HDD, DVB device, ADSL box, networking gear, etc.) costs me 65€/year... Much less than, say, hot water. -- NH ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] [solved] [iptv] [input_vdr] No data in 8 seconds, queuing no signal image
2009/5/7 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net: I just wanted to confirm that you were right all the way. I get video with VDR 1.7.7 (although I will have to tweak my system to get it fluent). Thanks. Great news! Once you are all set up would you be so kind to post iptv -channels from your channels.conf to the German wiki page (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Iptv-plugin) along with few notes about what was required to get it working? I think such information would be very helpful to other users from Germany who are thinking about trying the plugin. -- Antti ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] VDR-1.7.7 Video aspect ratios
On Mon, 04 May 2009 19:30:36 +0200 Nicolas Huillard nico...@huillard.net wrote: With today's pixel-displays, we'd like to avoid all scaling, stretching, etc. done by the panel itself. ie. like Rolf said, always output from the computer at panel resolution, with 1:1 pixel mapping. Video would be scaled, but not the OSD. On my TV video looks better at 1280x720 than at the native resolution of 1360x768 for two reasons: Its picture mode presets are optimised for video in 720p modes and PC/text in 1360x768. Nearly everything I watch is 25fps and the TV only supports 60Hz at 1360x768. OTOH ISTM even 576 line SDTV looks better displayed in a 720p mode than in 576p. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] VDR-1.7.7 Video aspect ratios
I think what is being asked for is that the OSD always displays at the screens full physical extent even if the TV channel being watched is only 4:3 in the centre for example. Andrew On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Joachim Wilke joachim.wi...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/5/4 Nicolas Huillard nico...@huillard.net: Matthias Becker a écrit : Did you get the point? It's somehow difficult to describe this topic for me. With today's pixel-displays, we'd like to avoid all scaling, stretching, etc. done by the panel itself. ie. like Rolf said, always output from the computer at panel resolution, with 1:1 pixel mapping. Video would be scaled, but not the OSD. Who is we, at least my (and most other TV I have seen) rescale 16:9 (anamorphic) material to display it with the right aspect. This results in a wrong display of the OSD. This should be fixed. An ordinary user will not understand, why the OSD looks sometimes normal and sometimes broad (stretched). Best Regards, Joachim. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Convergent Home Technologies Ltd www.dianemo.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1245 330101 Fax: +44 (0)1245 263916 Unit 205 Waterhouse Business Centre Cromar Way Chelmsford Essex CM1 2QE UK Watch Dianemo Videos here; http://www.dianemo.co.uk/index.php/your-home/overview-videos/8-your-home/31-dianemo-overview-videos ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?
ACK. VDR is very nice. I've been using it for years now. But it is still very much tech focused in many areas. E.g. cutting recordings is way too complicated for non-tech persons. I'd also like to see option where live-tv pause can be enabled/disabled. It has seldom been a problem but the whole feature is not usable for our usage. It seriously would not hurt VDR if there were Help pages available via OSD. Yes, there are man-pages but my guess is that very very few end users will actually go to terminal to check man-pages if they have some problems with VDR how to do something. They just don't bother. And this is request for Klaus because he's the author of the VDR thus should keep the help pages of VDR up-to-date. And preferably all plugin developers would do the same. Br, Pasi marti...@embl.de wrote: The relook400s for example has an option (it can be turned on or off) where a 30 minutes buffer of live tv is recorded to allow to rewind livetv. This recording is automatically deleted when you zap to another channel, hence the Wife Acceptance Factor is very high. Whenever my wife sees in vdr 'channel not available' she freaks out and waits for me to come back from work, and then nags how vdr is not working again. It is nearly always instant recordings causing this and she is intimidated by the routing of deleting the recoding with the @ and then zapping. VDR is wonderful but it would not hurt to have options (I repeat options, that can be enabled only if desired) that make it more acceptable to non-technical users. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Pasi Juppo p...@juppo.fi wrote: VDR is very nice. I've been using it for years now. But it is still very much tech focused in many areas. E.g. cutting recordings is way too complicated for non-tech persons. Could you elaborate on this? The editing in VDR is very simplistic and requires no real technical skill at all. It's nothing more then setting cut points, frame stepping, and performing the cut. The user only has to know what he wants to cut/keep so I'm not sure why anyone would say it's way too complicated. I know there are some people who mix with computers like water oil but if you can manage to use the remote, you should be able to edit just fine. ;) Regards, Derek ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?
VDR User wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Pasi Juppo p...@juppo.fi wrote: VDR is very nice. I've been using it for years now. But it is still very much tech focused in many areas. E.g. cutting recordings is way too complicated for non-tech persons. Could you elaborate on this? The editing in VDR is very simplistic and requires no real technical skill at all. It's nothing more then setting cut points, frame stepping, and performing the cut. The user only has to know what he wants to cut/keep so I'm not sure why anyone would say it's way too complicated. I know there are some people who mix with computers like water oil but if you can manage to use the remote, you should be able to edit just fine. ;) The problem is not how to edit but which buttons needs to be pressed to set cutting marks, which to move them, which to start actual cutting etc. If you use this feature less than once per month then it's obvious that you will not remember these buttons. I can fully understand that non-technical people don't bother to remember every little detail (such as this) but simply to use it. IF there were help pages available from, pretty much, every OSD screen it would be easy to check which buttons shall be pressed to do e.g. editing. For example regarding MPlayer plugin. I have troubles remembering which numbers are assigned to advance or delay of sound, change of subtitles etc. These are not needed often but sometimes. It would be really nice to take a look at Help page of MPlayer plugin to check what buttons are assigned to which function etc. than to go to different room, log into VDR machine, check plugin's Readme-file and get back to the couch - oh, what was assigned to the button 7.. Small things like Help pages make a huge difference to the usability of the VDR and plugins. Br, Pasi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Pasi Juppo wrote: It seriously would not hurt VDR if there were Help pages available via OSD. Yes, there are man-pages but my guess is that very very few end users will actually go to terminal to check man-pages if they have some problems with VDR how to do something. They just don't bother. And this is request for Klaus because he's the author of the VDR thus should keep the help pages of VDR up-to-date. And preferably all plugin developers would do the same. Some plugins (all of mine for example) do have manual/help. You'll need just to press Info button to access them on plugin's active setup entry. This would be quite beneficial for core VDR too as many options are quite hard to understand at the first glance and a separate Keymap menu item would be a nice addition into the setup menu for averate users. BR, -- rofa ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
