Malcolm Caldwell wrote: > > > Again, IMHO, this seems fairly complex. Why should vdr consult plugins > about this stuff? e.g. because plain vdr doesn't know anything about a positioner (or other weird things: vdr is good because it's flexible and you can do almost everything you want with it). > I would have thought that vdr should be able to tell > when a signal is valid etc. > > Perhaps just having a time value indicating how long the signal had been > locked would be enough. Then things like channel update etc. could just > wait until there was (eg) 5 seconds of valid signal before it did > anything. That may be good for eit(?) scanning, not for attaching receivers: why wait 5 seconds when the dish is already positioned and you have a good signal? Since I'm using a dxr3 (i.e. transfer mode i.e. a receiver) I wouldn't like to wait 5 seconds after each channel change. Bye -- - Yo tambi?n quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050827/37a8d08e/signature.pgp