I patched VDR 1.3.30 so that audio/video playback can be suspended by pressing a remote control key, no matter which menu is open. This patch can also power off the monitor and speakers when playback is suspended. That part is behind another #ifdef. Last but not least, the new "Suspend" key can be used as an intelligent power-off key. If this feature is enabled and the playback is suspended by pressing the key, and no other key is pressed within a timeout (currently SHUTDOWNWAIT, but later it'd be be a configuration option independent of SHUTDOWNWAIT), vdr will shut itself down. If there are pending timed recordings, the shutdown timer will start counting at the end of the last recording. The patch is available at <http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/index.en.html#suspend> as <http://www.funet.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/vdr-suspend.patch>. It has been tested with the vdr-softdevice and vdr-dxr3 plugins (thanks to Martin Wache and Ville Skytt?) but not with full-featured cards. Feedback is greatly appreciated. I would love to see this feature included in the next stable release of VDR. Marko M?kel?
