>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matthieu Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Better DVB support (C programmers needed)
>On Thu 15.07.2004 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:32 +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: >> > The problem with ringbuffers is, that they limit the amount of time you >> > can pause the TV. >> >> It's true that my ringbuffer patch does limit you this way, but there's >> no fundamental reason for this limitation. I plan to implement a >> variable length buffer (so you can keep X minutes of stuff you've >> already watched, and buffer Y minutes of stuff you haven't). I don't >> think it'll be that hard to do, and won't require any more modifications >> to MPlayer. >But you are still limited to Y minutes when your mother (in law) >phones... When a calamity happens, press record, and the remaining of the show will be recorded by the recordserver without having a limit on Y minutes. On the other hand if your mother in law calls it sounds better to say "My ringbuffer is overflowing mum, please call back another time" as "Mum, my favorite show is on TV" :-) >> > And you won't use an awful lot of disk space if you don't pause the show >> > at all (remember: 1 hour = 2GB of data in some cases). > >> 2GB an hour isn't _that_ much when you consider 80GB is a "small" disk >> these days. Besides, in practice, I'd _want_ a huge ring buffer, about >> 3 hours, in case I decide after I've done watching a show that I say, >> "Oh, I really want to keep this." I can hit a button and it'll save it >> out to a separate file from the ringbuffer. >In this case, what you want is not a ringbuffer, but simply >systematically recording what you are watching. The ringbuffer would >erase what you have already watched, after some time. Or then, there >would be no distinction between the timeshift and the recording. It will still be a ringbuffer with an extra feature............... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
