Video Disk Recorder User's Manual --------------------------------- * Remote Control Keys The following remote control keys are used to control the VDR operation. To keep the number of different keys as small as possible, several keys have different meanings in the various modes: Key Normal Main Channels Timer Edit/New Recordings Replay Up Ch up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Begin Down Ch down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Pause Left - - - Disable Decrement - Search back Right - - - Enable Increment - Search forward Ok Ch display Select Switch Edit Accept Play Progress disp. 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 - Red - Record Edit Edit - Play - Green - - New New - - Skip -60s Yellow - - Delete Delete - Delete Skip +60s Blue - - Mark Mark - - Stop 0..9 Ch select - - - Numeric inp. - - * Navigating through the On Screen Menus The "Main" menu can be called up with the "Menu" key of your remote control unit. The "Up" and "Down" keys are used to select a specific item. The "Left" and "Right" keys can be used to change options, and the numeric keys allow direct input of numeric data. The "Ok" key 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 "Left" and "Right", and changing the character with the "Up" and "Down" keys. "Ok" then confirms the changes. 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). * Selecting a Channel There are three ways to select a channel: 1. With no On Screen Menu displayed press the "Up" or "Down" key to switch to the next higher or lower channel. 2. Press the "Menu" button to bring up the On Screen Menu, select "Channels" and browse through the list with the "Up" and "Down" key; to switch to the selected channel press "Ok". 2. 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 far will define the channel number. After switching to a different channel the channel number and name, as well as the current time are displayed at the top of the screen. This line automatically goes away after about two seconds, or if any key is pressed. To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press the "Ok" button. * Instant Recording You can start recording the current channel by pressing the "Red" button in the Main menu. This will create a timer event named "@channelname" that starts at the current time and records for two hours. If you want to modify the recording time you need to edit the timer. Stop instant recording by pressing the "Menu" button and selecting "Stop Recording", or by disabling the timer. * Replaying a Recording All recordings are listed in the "Recordings" menu. Browse through the list with the "Up" and "Down" button and press "Ok" (or the "Red" button) to start playback. Playback can be stopped via the Main menu by selecting "Stop replaying", or by pressing the "Blue" button outside the menu. * Replay Control The following keys have the listed meaning in Replay mode: - Up Positions to beginning of the recording and starts playback from there. - Down Halts playback at the current position. Press again to continue playback. - Blue Stops playback and stores the current position, so that playback can be resumed later at that point. - Left Right Runs playback forward or backward at a higher speed. Press again to resume normal speed. - Green Yellow Skips about 60 seconds back or forward. - Ok Brings up the replay progress display, which shows the date, time and title of the recording, a progress bar and the current and total time of the recording. Press "Ok" again to turn off the progress display. * Programming the Timer Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings. The parameters in the "Edit Timer" menu have the following meanings: Active: Defines whether the timer will be processed (set it to 'no' to temporarily desable a timer). Channel: The channel to be recorded (as defined in the "Channels" list). Any changes made in the "Channels" list (like renaming or reordering channels) will be automatically reflected in the timers settings. Day: The day on which this timer shall start. This can be either a "day of month" (1..31), which allows programming a "single shot" timer that hits once and is deleted after it ends. Single shot timers can be programmed up to one month into the future. Another option here are "repeating timers" which are defined by listing the days of the week on which they shall record. For example, a timer that shall record every monday and wednesday would have a Day setting of "M-W----". Start: The start time of the timer in hh:mm as 24 hour ("military") time. Stop: The stop time of the timer. Priority: The Priority (0..99) is used to decide which timer shall be started in case there are two or more timers with the exact same start time. The first timer in the list with the highest Priority will be used. This value is also stored with the recording and is later used to decide which recording to remove from disk in order to free space for a new recording. If the disk is full and a new recording needs more space, an existing recording with the lowest Priority (and which has exceeded its guaranteed Lifetime) will be removed. Lifetime: The number of days (0..99) a recording made through this timer is guaranteed to remain on disk before it is automatically removed 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. 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 time, so it is possible to have a "repeating timer" store all its recordings under the same name; they will be distinguishable by their date and time). If this field is left blank, the channel name will be used to form the name of the recording.