The best thing about TiVo is that it ALWAYS does this recording in the background. In order to make this truly effective, it must always be running in the background, with a button on the user interface that allows that last xx seconds/minutes to be saved, or played back. If you must first hit a UI button to enable this function, the advantage is usually lost (by the time you hit the button it's too late). Having a function to semi-permanently enable/disable (not in real-time) would be OK for those who don't need it.
Opening a file that stores the last xx (30?) seconds as a circular buffer should not be too difficult, but it does add more overhead. Ideas regarding storage length and whether the demoded audio or IF signal should be recorded are other questions... Anyway, this is a great idea! I love my TiVos. Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Loen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Lux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Idea for new feature: instant replay > Jim Lux wrote: > > >At 06:41 AM 1/7/2007, K0MV wrote: > > > > > >>Those of you who have Tivo boxes will recognize this. > >> > >>The feature is a continuous recording of the last 5 minutes of the > >>received signal. You can rewind and go back to see if you copied that > >>DX callsign correctly, or maybe try a narrower filter. > >> > >> > > > > > >Excellent idea. Especially the idea with the narrower/different filtering. > > > >I gotta warn you, though,if this becomes popular, I can see the > >outcry on the contesting reflectors. There are folks who beleive > >that when the contest period ends, it's "pencils down". Others say, > >whatever it takes. Others say, if you didn't copy it that way > >initially, tough beans, no looking back. > > > >I love the excitement of rules interpretation that novel new > >functionality can give you. > > > > > >Jim, W6RMK > > > > > > > > > > > > He he. But, in a more serious vein, without really huge amounts of > storage, at least with the way we do things now, this won't amount to > more than maybe a half hour or so. > > The straightforward way would be to have the current record function > simply. . .record to memory in some sort of rotating buffer instead of a > file as such. But, jack that up to more than a couple of minutes and it > gets very large, even by today's stanards. > > I must admit, I've lusted after this feature more than once. > > What would be nicer still would be the ability in the record menu to > have a "store last 15 seconds" feature. THAT would do exactly what > you're talking about and it would be sufficiently selective. But, no > popups on such a feature, just an info bar giving the file name. > > > > > Larry WO0Z > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
