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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
Menu Menu on Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu on
Back - Menu off Main menu Main menu Discard Main menu Recordings menu
Red - Record Edit Edit - Play -
- Green - - New New - Rewind Skip -60s
+ Green - Language New New - Rewind Skip -60s
Yellow - - Delete Delete - Delete Skip +60s
Blue - Resume Mark Mark - Summary Stop
0..9 Ch select - - - Numeric inp. - Editing
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
confirms any changes (or switches to a channel in the "Channels" menu).
The "Back" key goes back one level in the menu structure, discarding
any changes that might have been made in the current menu.
-
+
In the "Timers" menu, the current timer can be enabled or disabled with
the "Right" or "Left" key, respectively (enabled timers are marked with ">").
"Ok" here opens the "Edit timer" menu.
-
+
Textual options, like channel names or recording file names, can be edited
by pressing the "Right" button (which puts brackets around the current
character as in "[R]TL"), selecting the desired character position with
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
brackets (as in abc[^]), the next press to the "Left" or "Ok" button will
actually cut off the string. Using "Up" and/or "Down" brings back the
original rest of the string (unless you have pressed "Left" or "Ok").
-
+
The "Red", "Green", "Yellow" and "Blue" buttons have special meanings
in various menus and are listed at the bottom of the on-screen-display.
-
+
At any point in the menu system, pressing the "Menu" key again will
immediately leave the menu system (discarding any pending changes).
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
and browse through the list with the "Up" and "Down" key; to switch to the
selected channel press "Ok".
3. Directly type in the channel number with the numeric keys ('0'..'9');
- if no key is pressed for about half a second, the digits collected so
+ if no key is pressed for about one second, the digits collected so
far will define the channel number.
4. From the "Now", "Next" and "Event" menus (accessible through the "Schedule"
menu) by pressing the "Blue" button.
@@ -115,6 +115,16 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press
the "Ok" button.
+* Selecting language specific audio track
+
+ If the current channel provides different audio tracks (typically for
+ different languages), the "Green" button in the "Main" menu can be pressed
+ to toggle between these. There can be two different audio PIDs per channel,
+ assuming that typically a channel broadcasts a country specific language
+ plus the movie's original soundtrack.
+ Recordings made form such channels will contain both audio tracks, and when
+ replaying the desired audio track can be selected the same way.
+
* Switching through channel groups
If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
@@ -257,6 +267,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
to free up space for a new recording. Note that setting this
parameter to very high values for all recordings may soon fill up
the entire disk and cause new recordings to fail due to low disk
+ space. The special value 99 means that this recording will live
+ "forever", and a value of 0 means that this recording can be
+ deleted any time if a recording with a higher priority needs disk
space.
File: The name under which a recording created through this timer will
be stored on disk (the actual name will also contain the date and
@@ -309,9 +322,14 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
0 = instant recordings will not be marked
1 = instant recordings will be marked.
- LnbFrequLo = 9750 The low and high LNB frequencies (in MHz)
+ LnbSLOF = 11700 The switching frequency (in MHz) between low and high LOF
+ LnbFrequLo = 9750 The LNB's low and high local oscillator frequencies (in MHz)
LnbFrequHi = 10600 (these have no meaning for DVB-C receivers)
+ DiSEqC = 1 Generally turns DiSEqC support on or off.
+ 0 = disabled
+ 1 = enabled
+
SetSystemTime = 0 Defines whether the system time will be set according to
the time received from the DVB data stream.
0 = system time will not be set
@@ -341,6 +359,22 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
never keep the user from viewing stuff on the primary
interface. On systems with only one DVB card, timers
with a priority below PrimaryLimit will never execute.
+
+ DefaultPriority = 50 The default Priority and Lifetime values used when
+ DefaultLifetime = 50 creating a new timer event. A Lifetime value of 99
+ means that this recording will never be deleted
+ automatically.
+
+ VideoFormat = 0 The video format (or aspect ratio) of the tv set in use.
+ 0 = 4:3
+ 1 = 16:9
+
+ ChannelInfoPos = 0 The position of the channel info window in the OSD.
+ 0 = bottom
+ 1 = top
+
+ OSDwidth = 52 The width and height of the OSD .
+ OSDheight = 18 The valid ranges are width=40...56, height=12...21.
* Executing system commands