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Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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* 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 Play
Down Ch down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Crsr down Pause
Left Prev group - - Disable Decrement - Search back
Right Next group - - 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 special character '^' can be used
to "cut off" a string at this position. When this character is visible in the
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).
* 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.
* Switching through channel groups
If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
through these groups by pressing the "Left" and "Right" key while no
menu is being displayed. The channel display will show the name of the
group, and if you press the "Ok" button while the group name is being
displayed, you will switch to the first channel of that group.
Channel groups can be whatever you decide them to be. You can either
group your channels by "Bouquet", by language, genre or whatever your
preferences may be.
* 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 Resumes normal replay from any "pause", "forward" or "backward"
mode.
- 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. If in Pause mode, runs forward or
backward at a slower speed; press again to return to pause mode.
- 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.
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