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Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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* Remote Control Keys
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The following remote control keys are used to control the VDR
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operation. To keep the number of different keys as small as
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possible, several keys have different meanings in the various
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modes:
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Key Normal Main Channels Timer Edit/New Recordings Replay
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Up Ch up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Crsr up Play
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Down Ch down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Pause
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Left Prev group - - Disable Decrement - Search back
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Right Next group - - Enable Increment - Search forward
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Ok Ch display Select Switch Edit Accept Play Progress disp.
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Menu Menu on Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu off Menu on
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Back - Menu off Main menu Main menu Discard Main menu -
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Red - Record Edit Edit - Play -
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Green - - New New - - Skip -60s
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Yellow - - Delete Delete - Delete Skip +60s
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Blue - - Mark Mark - - Stop
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0..9 Ch select - - - Numeric inp. - -
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* Navigating through the On Screen Menus
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The "Main" menu can be called up with the "Menu" key of your remote
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control unit. The "Up" and "Down" keys are used to select a specific
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item. The "Left" and "Right" keys can be used to change options, and
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the numeric keys allow direct input of numeric data. The "Ok" key
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confirms any changes (or switches to a channel in the "Channels" menu).
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The "Back" key goes back one level in the menu structure, discarding
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any changes that might have been made in the current menu.
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In the "Timers" menu, the current timer can be enabled or disabled with
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the "Right" or "Left" key, respectively (enabled timers are marked with ">").
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"Ok" here opens the "Edit timer" menu.
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Textual options, like channel names or recording file names, can be edited
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by pressing the "Right" button (which puts brackets around the current
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character as in "[R]TL"), selecting the desired character position with
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"Left" and "Right", and changing the character with the "Up" and "Down"
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keys. "Ok" then confirms the changes. The special character '^' can be used
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to "cut off" a string at this position. When this character is visible in the
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brackets (as in abc[^]), the next press to the "Left" or "Ok" button will
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actually cut off the string. Using "Up" and/or "Down" brings back the
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original rest of the string (unless you have pressed "Left" or "Ok").
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The "Red", "Green", "Yellow" and "Blue" buttons have special meanings
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in various menus and are listed at the bottom of the on-screen-display.
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At any point in the menu system, pressing the "Menu" key again will
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immediately leave the menu system (discarding any pending changes).
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* Selecting a Channel
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There are three ways to select a channel:
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1. With no On Screen Menu displayed press the "Up" or "Down" key to switch
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to the next higher or lower channel.
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2. Press the "Menu" button to bring up the On Screen Menu, select "Channels"
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and browse through the list with the "Up" and "Down" key; to switch to the
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selected channel press "Ok".
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2. Directly type in the channel number with the numeric keys ('0'..'9');
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if no key is pressed for about half a second, the digits collected so
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far will define the channel number.
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Pressing the '0' key toggles between the current and the previous channel.
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After switching to a different channel the channel number and name, as well
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as the current time are displayed at the top of the screen. If available, the
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'current/next' information will be displayed below this line. This display
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automatically goes away after about five seconds, or if any key is pressed.
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To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press
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the "Ok" button.
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* Switching through channel groups
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If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
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through these groups by pressing the "Left" and "Right" key while no
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menu is being displayed. The channel display will show the name of the
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group, and if you press the "Ok" button while the group name is being
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displayed, you will switch to the first channel of that group.
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Channel groups can be whatever you decide them to be. You can either
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group your channels by "Bouquet", by language, genre or whatever your
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preferences may be.
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* Instant Recording
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You can start recording the current channel by pressing the "Red" button
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in the Main menu. This will create a timer event named "@channelname" that
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starts at the current time and records for two hours.
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If you want to modify the recording time you need to edit the timer.
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Stop instant recording by pressing the "Menu" button and selecting
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"Stop Recording", or by disabling the timer.
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* Replaying a Recording
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All recordings are listed in the "Recordings" menu. Browse through the
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list with the "Up" and "Down" button and press "Ok" (or the "Red" button)
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to start playback. New recordings are marked with an '*'.
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Playback can be stopped via the Main menu by selecting "Stop replaying",
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or by pressing the "Blue" button outside the menu.
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* Replay Control
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The following keys have the listed meaning in Replay mode:
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- Up Resumes normal replay from any "pause", "forward" or "backward"
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mode.
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- Down Halts playback at the current position. Press again to continue
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playback.
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- Blue Stops playback and stores the current position, so that
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playback can be resumed later at that point.
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- Left
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Right Runs playback forward or backward at a higher speed; press
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again to resume normal speed. If in Pause mode, runs forward or
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backward at a slower speed; press again to return to pause mode.
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Pressing and holding down the button performs the function until
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the button is released again.
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- Green
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Yellow Skips about 60 seconds back or forward.
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Pressing and holding down the button performs the function until
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the button is released again.
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- Ok Brings up the replay progress display, which shows the date,
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time and title of the recording, a progress bar and the
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current and total time of the recording.
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Press "Ok" again to turn off the progress display.
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* Programming the Timer
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Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings.
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The parameters in the "Edit Timer" menu have the following meanings:
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Active: Defines whether the timer will be processed (set it to 'no' to
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temporarily desable a timer).
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Channel: The channel to be recorded (as defined in the "Channels" list).
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Any changes made in the "Channels" list (like renaming or
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reordering channels) will be automatically reflected in the
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timers settings.
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Day: The day on which this timer shall start. This can be either a
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"day of month" (1..31), which allows programming a "single shot"
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timer that hits once and is deleted after it ends. Single shot
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timers can be programmed up to one month into the future.
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Another option here are "repeating timers" which are defined
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by listing the days of the week on which they shall record.
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For example, a timer that shall record every monday and wednesday
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would have a Day setting of "M-W----".
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Start: The start time of the timer in hh:mm as 24 hour ("military") time.
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Stop: The stop time of the timer.
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Priority: The Priority (0..99) is used to decide which timer shall be
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started in case there are two or more timers with the exact same
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start time. The first timer in the list with the highest Priority
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will be used. This value is also stored with the recording and is
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later used to decide which recording to remove from disk in order
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to free space for a new recording. If the disk is full and a new
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recording needs more space, an existing recording with the lowest
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Priority (and which has exceeded its guaranteed Lifetime) will be
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removed.
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Lifetime: The number of days (0..99) a recording made through this timer is
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guaranteed to remain on disk before it is automatically removed
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to free up space for a new recording. Note that setting this
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parameter to very high values for all recordings may soon fill up
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the entire disk and cause new recordings to fail due to low disk
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space.
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File: The name under which a recording created through this timer will
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be stored on disk (the actual name will also contain the date and
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time, so it is possible to have a "repeating timer" store all its
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recordings under the same name; they will be distinguishable by
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their date and time).
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If this field is left blank, the channel name will be used to form
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the name of the recording.
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* Parameters in the "Setup" menu
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Select "Setup" from the main menu to enter the setup menu. From there you can
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modify the following system parameters (note that "boolean" values will be
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displayed as "no" and "yes" in the "Setup" menu, while in the setup file they
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are stored as '0' and '1', respectively):
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PrimaryDVB = 1 Defines the primary DVB interface (i.e. the one that
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will display the menus and will react on input through
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the remote control). Valid values range from '1' to the
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number of installed DVB cards. If more than one DVB card
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is installed and a recording is to be started, the
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program will try to use a free DVB card that is different
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from the primary DVB interface, so that the viewer will
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be disturbed as little as possible.
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ShowInfoOnChSwitch = 1 Turns the display of the current/next information on
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or off when switching the channel. The information is
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always displayed when pressing the "Ok" button in
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normal viewing mode.
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MenuScrollPage = 1 0 = when pressing the "Down" ("Up") key while the cursor
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is on the last (first) line of a list page, the
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list is advanced by a full page and the cursor will
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be at the top (bottom) of that page
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1 = dto., but the cursor remains at the bottom (top) of
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the page (this mode allows for faster scrolling
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through long lists).
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