On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Marko M?kel? wrote: > > Maybe not switching off display while doing playback? It doesn't make > > much sense anyway to run playback invisible. > > It does. The typical use case is that you pause live video or start > a recording with a timer, then start watching it while it is still > recording, so that you can skip commercial breaks. Then you get > interrupted while watching it. It would be very handy to push the > power button. > > If it was a short interruption, you'd push any button to resume playback. > If the interruption was longer (such as your kid wakes up and you'll have > to put him back to sleep for a few hours), vdr would do the right thing > and shut down after finishing the recording. According to Reinhard Nissl's reply in another thread, this can be fixed in the cDevice plugin by not blocking input in cDevice::PlayVideo() or cDevice::PlayAudio() when cDevice::Transferring() holds. I'll update my shutdown patch for softdevice soon. No need to change anything in your patch. Marko