Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-16 Thread Patrick Rother
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Nicolas Huillard wrote: Patrick Rother a écrit : On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:30:24PM +0300, Pasi Juppo wrote: I'd also like to see option where live-tv pause can be enabled/disabled. I second this idea. I have a large recorder host, and

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-16 Thread VDR User
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Patrick Rother krd-...@gulu.net wrote: As most pause key pressings are accidental, this is quite annoying. That is user-error, not a problem with VDR. I'd prefer to have a switch to disable recording at all. Although you can easily resolve your problem by

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-16 Thread Pasi Juppo
Seriously, there are many many things that are purely user error - so what! If the SW can eliminate few of those then wouldn't it be advantage of the SW? If VDR can provide assistance to solve user error then why not implement it and make more users happy about VDR? Just because it is additional

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-16 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 16.05.2009 22:30, Pasi Juppo wrote: Seriously, there are many many things that are purely user error - so what! If the SW can eliminate few of those then wouldn't it be advantage of the SW? If VDR can provide assistance to solve user error then why not implement it and make more users

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-12 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 09:39 +0200, Frank Scherthan wrote: Hi Theunis, Hi list, I have read the manual. I understand how vdr works. I don't like finding 4 instant recordings going, using up disk space and 10 old instant recordings that no one actually wanted. IMHO: it is too easy to

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-12 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I like this solution On 11/05/2009, Timo Eskola t...@tolleri.net wrote: Handling of the pause key is an intreresting issue. There was proposal to configure the pause key as down key. This works during replay, but hitting the pause during live video changes channel. Better solution would be

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-12 Thread Torgeir Veimo
2009/5/12 Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com I like this solution On 11/05/2009, Timo Eskola t...@tolleri.net wrote: Handling of the pause key is an intreresting issue. There was proposal to configure the pause key as down key. This works during replay, but hitting the

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-12 Thread martinez
I agree wholeheartedly with Malcolm Caldwell. I have also read the manual (last night again to be precise) and still think the handling of the pause key is far from ideal. I think Timo's patch would be great. Nothing changes for those who think the current system is 100% perfect and two other

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 06:15 -0700, VDR User wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such a recording be deleted?

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 16:29 +0300, Lauri Tischler wrote: VDR User wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Magnus Hörlin
The Real Problem is that people are too lazy to educate their brats properly. For F sake. Do you have kids? You can educate a 5 year old, but a 2 year old? Have you even tried? Just to say: I am not lazy, and my kids are not brats, and I don't think I or the the others here who

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Torgeir Veimo
Just my 5 cent on the topic; Having a pause key that records is really non-logical. Follow the principle of least surprise; if you want to record live tv, you press the record button, no the pause button. If one really wants to record the (temporal) file created by a live tv pause, one could

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Frank Scherthan
Torgeir Veimo schrieb: Just my 5 cent on the topic; Having a pause key that records is really non-logical. You can keep your money ;) The pause key pauses live TV. It doesn't record in the background to surprise you! It has to record, to do playback AND pause, so the key is doing EXACTLY

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 09/05/2009, Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: On 09.05.2009 12:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - When should such a recording be deleted? If it gets deleted as soon as replay is stopped, you'll be very surprised when you (or your kids ;-) inadvertently press Stop, and you

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
our satellite provider's pvr, has 2 tv out and 2 remotes. If you are watching a live/paused recording, you have the option to save it or discard it. I do not know what the size of this buffer is. But it does give you the option and it does show you are busy with a live buffer, icon indication is

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Nicolas Huillard
marti...@embl.de a écrit : Now, as for the instant recording, how about it gets deleted when you zap t o another channel? ...or when there is no available tuner to continue the older instant-recording... I think about zapping, when you would like to keep the previous channel instant

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread VDR User
If you don't want VDR to record when pause is pressed, how do you expect to resume play from the point at which you pressed pause? Obviously it has to record the stream somewhere since there is no live tv caching in VDR. Next, you _do_ have the option to delete these pause/instant recordings, you

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Herron
I agree with you 100% - the 'Pause' key should pause Live TV. However I do agree with others here that the 'Paused recording' should be automatically 'cleaned up' when you go back to Live TV or alternatively when you change channel. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Frank Scherthan

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Torgeir Veimo
2009/5/12 VDR User user@gmail.com If you don't want VDR to record when pause is pressed, how do you expect to resume play from the point at which you pressed pause? I'm talking about what the users sees, not what VDR does behind the scenes. Next, you _do_ have the option to delete

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Rene
marti...@embl.de wrote: Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless I han g it from the ceiling. Is there some way I can disable live tv pausing all together? It is causing a lot of trouble and I don´t reallly need that feature... I reply direct to the original

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Timo Eskola
Handling of the pause key is an intreresting issue. There was proposal to configure the pause key as down key. This works during replay, but hitting the pause during live video changes channel. Better solution would be to add setup option for pause key handling. I made a simple patch for this:

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-10 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
If there's any intention to add live tv caching then ram should definitely be available to the user as a storage option. Although I don't really care about the feature, I don't mind if my ram is being used whereas I absolutely don't want a harddrive constantly running for it. Btw, I haven't

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-10 Thread VDR User
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Andrey Kuzmin mailli...@egodot.net wrote: If there's any intention to add live tv caching then ram should definitely be available to the user as a storage option.  Although I don't really care about the feature, I don't mind if my ram is being used whereas I

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Jouni Karvo
VDR User kirjoitti: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi wrote: I'd be pleased, if there would be some kind of a caretaking, so that the pause-live-tv recording would just disappear after returning to other modes of operation. I think it would not break anything

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Gerald Dachs
Am Sat, 09 May 2009 10:33:58 +0300 schrieb Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi: No, I meant deleting automatically the pause-live-TV recording. That recording is conceptually just a technical implementation issue (and should not be visible in the recordings list, even, in my opinion). The end

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 05/09/09 12:30, Gerald Dachs wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 10:33:58 +0300 schrieb Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi: No, I meant deleting automatically the pause-live-TV recording. That recording is conceptually just a technical implementation issue (and should not be visible in the recordings

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread VDR User
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 10:33:58 +0300 schrieb Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi: No, I meant deleting automatically the pause-live-TV recording. That recording is conceptually just a technical implementation issue (and should not

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread VDR User
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such a recording be deleted?   If it gets deleted as soon as replay is stopped,

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Lauri Tischler
VDR User wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such a recording be deleted? If it gets deleted as soon as replay

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I totally agree with this too...at least it would be good to have the option to handle the pause-live-TV recording as now or to have them automatically deleted when you change channel and not have them appear at all in the 'Recordings' menu. This would me a big improvement in WAF :-) On Sat, May

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Herron
My view is that it should behave as on other PVR's where if you change channel then the 'paused live recording' should be deleted. People are used to this behaviour. Pressing 'Stop' while in the live recording would take you back to 'Live' viewing. At anytime when you want to keep the current Live

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Gerald Dachs
Am Sat, 9 May 2009 06:15:18 -0700 schrieb VDR User user@gmail.com: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such a

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread martinez
o ne is very good... From: Lauri Tischler l...@iki.fi Subject: Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: 4a058548.6080...@iki.fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed ___ vdr

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Udo Richter
On 09.05.2009 12:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - When should such a recording be deleted? If it gets deleted as soon as replay is stopped, you'll be very surprised when you (or your kids ;-) inadvertently press Stop, and you can't resume replay. If it gets deleted after a certain

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Udo Richter
On 08.05.2009 01:17, Andrew Herron wrote: I agree it must put extra wear stress on the hard drive and yes the energy usage must be higher. I don't think so. Disks don't wear that much by reading and writing. Spinning up and down, heating up and cooling down, shaking them, do lots of seek

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
Gerald Dachs schrieb: Am Sat, 09 May 2009 12:38:39 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de: It also raises several questions: - When should such a recording be deleted? If it gets deleted as soon as replay is stopped, you'll be very surprised when you (or your

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread VDR User
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: On 08.05.2009 01:17, Andrew Herron wrote: I agree it must put extra wear stress on the hard drive and yes the energy usage must be higher. I don't think so. Disks don't wear that much by reading and writing. Spinning up

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-08 Thread martinez
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? (more and more OT)

2009-05-08 Thread Nicolas Huillard
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-08 Thread Pasi Juppo
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-08 Thread VDR User
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-08 Thread Pasi Juppo
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-08 Thread Rolf Ahrenberg
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

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Frank Scherthan
Hi Theunis, Hi list, Theunis Potgieter schrieb: Well honestly I'm confused. I use vdr 1.6 and when I press down or up it changes channel only. My vdr never pauses live tv. Mind you I don't have a pause key either and neither defined. So perhaps this is the way to for him. Why didn't you just

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I know I should RTFM. Since, vdr appears as a settopbox, it sometimes makes you lazy into thinking you would get the help from the screen and not think in Linux/Unix/PC way of checking a man page. Yes I know I will be getting flack for this. But neither my wife and I bother to check the pc after

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Jouni Karvo
Frank Scherthan kirjoitti: Hi there :) marti...@embl.de schrieb: Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless I han g it from the ceiling. Is there some way I can disable live tv pausing all together? It is causing a lot of trouble and I don´t reallly need

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Anssi Hannula
Jouni Karvo wrote: I'd be pleased, if there would be some kind of a caretaking, so that the pause-live-tv recording would just disappear after returning to other modes of operation. I think it would not break anything for the user, since you can always use the specific recording button in the

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread VDR User
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi wrote: I'd be pleased, if there would be some kind of a caretaking, so that the pause-live-tv recording would just disappear after returning to other modes of operation.  I think it would not break anything for the user, since you

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Herron
This is a very popular feature in the Sky+ SkyHD PVR's from Sky here in the UK as it enables them to offer the ability to rewind 'Live TV' in an ad-hoc way (at least to the point where you switched over to the currently viewed channel) I agree it must put extra wear stress on the hard drive and

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Torgeir Veimo
2009/5/8 Andrew Herron totallyma...@gmail.com This is a very popular feature in the Sky+ SkyHD PVR's from Sky here in the UK as it enables them to offer the ability to rewind 'Live TV' in an ad-hoc way (at least to the point where you switched over to the currently viewed channel) I agree

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Anssi Hannula
VDR User wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi wrote: I'd be pleased, if there would be some kind of a caretaking, so that the pause-live-tv recording would just disappear after returning to other modes of operation. I think it would not break anything for the

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread VDR User
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com wrote: 2009/5/8 Andrew Herron totallyma...@gmail.com This is a very popular feature in the Sky+ SkyHD PVR's from Sky here in the UK as it  enables them to offer the ability to rewind 'Live TV' in an ad-hoc way (at least to the

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
As far as I understand, vdr doesn't do pause live tv natively? I would just go in the menu and disable the pause live tv option. I'm sure that your vdr was probably patched to include this feature. On 05/05/2009, marti...@embl.de marti...@embl.de wrote: removing the pause key from remote.conf is

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread Brian
be switched on or off?) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:52:57 +0200 From: Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: 23582ca0905060152u81f6cd9p35675baa6345...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread VDR User
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Brian brian_dorl...@t-online.de wrote: Isn't pause live TV an instant recording. My VDR has some plugins, no patches, and has IMHO always done that. Yes, pausing live tv was added over 6 years ago in VDR-1.1.28 actually.

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread Frank Scherthan
Hi there :) marti...@embl.de schrieb: Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless I han g it from the ceiling. Is there some way I can disable live tv pausing all together? It is causing a lot of trouble and I don´t reallly need that feature... I really don't

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
marti...@embl.de wrote: Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless I han g it from the ceiling. Is there some way I can disable live tv pausing all together? It is causing a lot of trouble and I don´t reallly need that feature... Remove the keycode ... or train

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Halim Sahin
hi, Remove the pause key from your remote.conf Regards Halim ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Magnus Hörlin
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] För Halim Sahin Skickat: den 5 maj 2009 11:57 Till: vdr@linuxtv.org Ämne: Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? hi, Remove the pause key from your remote.conf Regards Halim

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Magnus Hörlin
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] För marti...@embl.de Skickat: den 5 maj 2009 11:19 Till: vdr@linuxtv.org Ämne: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Halim Sahin
hi, During playback you can pause it with down key. timeshift can be select in meinmenu. so He can simply disable the pause key. Regards Halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Brian
Magnus Hörlin wrote: -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] För marti...@embl.de Skickat: den 5 maj 2009 11:19 Till: vdr@linuxtv.org Ämne: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? Well, keeping the remote control away from my

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Halim Sahin
hi, What's the difference? your approach needs patching vdr. Remooving the pause key from remote.conf does the same. HTH. Halim On Di, Mai 05, 2009 at 12:13:33 +0200, Magnus Hörlin wrote: -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] För

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread Magnus Hörlin
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] För Halim Sahin Skickat: den 5 maj 2009 13:52 Till: vdr@linuxtv.org Ämne: Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher? hi, What's the difference? your approach needs patching vdr

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread martinez
removing the pause key from remote.conf is not a proper solution as when watching a recording I like to pause it sometimes. In truth is not only my kids that press the pause key but my wife or myself when using mplayer to watch an .avi file. Yes I could map the vdr pause key somewhere else as a

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-05 Thread VDR User
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:18 AM, marti...@embl.de wrote: Well, keeping the remote control away from my kids is not easy unless I han g it from the ceiling. Is there some way I can disable live tv pausing all together? It is causing a lot of trouble and I don´t reallly need that feature...