Hi
A thing which bothers me, I think could be implemented rather easily, would be a little more control of your recordings.
First of, I rarely (never) use the freevo box for viewing tv. the quality of my tuner isn't very good, so I prefer using the tv-set internal tuner. Howevre when I decide to record a show which just started, or starts soon, the tv-guide shows me the tv instead of offering me to record the show. I considerd two sollutions to this. First of is disabling the tv viewing part, and making the tv-guide work the same for all shows (like in the webversion). Secondly a submenu (enter-key) for shows could be brought up, forcing recording, or, as another feature, automaticly switches to tv-viewing on the time of the show. (Say you're mark a show for watching, then put on some music, and when the show starts, freevo turns of the music and switches to tv-viewing on the given channel.. )
Secondly, I'd like to be able to break down scheduled show recordings to manual records.. allowing me to alter start and stop time etc. often on my xmltv-guide, the last show of the evening doesn't have a stop time, and so lasts till the first show the next day.. and so a recording of family_guy can last for 7 hours... also, when recording movies, I'd like to manually pad the start and stop time to make sure the entire movie is recorded..
Lastly, I'd like to be able to use recording "profiles". Say I like recording alot of show I dont really watch alot of.. (reruns, backups and such) and I prefer recording those directly to vcd format for later export to cd/dvd. however when I record a movie, I'd like to switch to a 3-4Mbit Divx recording instead, which is a quality worth preserving movies in (of-course, later a two-pass mpeg2enc reduces the size and applies crops and noise filtering..). I suggest having a default profile for shows, and then having an extra property of manual recording to set the profile (or quality? ) of the recording.
oh.. and one last thing.. the am/pm vs. 24h clock isn't done very well.. I run 24h system here, but several places timeis listed in am/pm format instead.. (recording overview, webguide to name a few)
- Styx
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