Lainaus Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Petri Helin wrote: > > > I tried the version 0.02 and although it seems to be working fine, I have > > > couple of questions. First of all, there are no indication in the main menu > > > display about a recording activity, if the recording was started by a > timer. > > IMHO, there's no need to show background recording activity while > surfing in menus, so I haven't implemented such a feature. I don't want > my screen filled up with all the bells and whistles that add no real > value. > I, on the contrary, do like to see if the system is recording, and if it is, what is it recording. But it is your soppalusikka, so I won't fight about it ;) > Sure, I've been thinking about implementing some parts of femon into > soppalusikka, but it would generate some drawbacks like slowing down > channel zapping etc. You can always bind the femon plugin to some user > defined key and you'll get the aspect ratios as easily as pressing the > ok to bring up the default channel info. Starting the femon plugin causes always a few seconds gap during which the screen turns black. So no thank you. > > Why you'd want the see the bitrates/aspect ratios/.. everytime you'll > open the channel info? Just to verify that your visual cortex is still > in sync with the video stream? ;) > Why would I need any of the other provided bits of information either? Let's say I just like information :) > If you absolutely need this kind of information, there's a video status > feature in skinelchi plugin (but for FF cards only?). > I was hoping that this would be a slighter solution than the text2skin + enElchi-skin which I am currently using (although I had to add the current recordings bar to the main menu myself). So I will just continue with that one then.
