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<blockquote data-quote="NLS" data-source="post: 55333" data-attributes="member: 20102"><p>hmmm initially I thought you hit the nail on the head...</p><p></p><p>then I think it is not the same thing to just "keep recording"...</p><p></p><p>let me explain...</p><p></p><p>1) we are watching channel A, we are maybe 2 secs behind live (normal timeshift) that we consider as "live"...</p><p></p><p>2) ...then at 10 mins play time (on live), I have to go to the King's Throne, so I press pause</p><p></p><p>3) ...I return after 2 mins and press resume... I continue watching and I am in start+10', while live is at start +12' (and +2' from my view)</p><p></p><p>4) then after 3 more mins (start+13' view, start+15' live) I switch to channel B (mistake or not, irrelevant) for 10 secs, of course watching B live right?</p><p></p><p>5) ...and switch back to channel A</p><p></p><p>...what should happen now? Would I see from start+13' (plus 10" I missed) OR would I go to A live and miss the two mins I was in pause?</p><p></p><p>Since probably there is no program logic "remembering" that there are 2 mins extra buffer for channel A, switching back to channel A would in fact kill my recorded 2'... except if you just mean that if I mistakenly press a channel switch then I should just press rewind to "rewind" the... channel change. Is that what you mean? Then I guess after 3 mins (where I reach the buffer time where I had the channel switch), I would just see a "virtual" channel switch of 10 secs (since the buffer would have that recorder too). Am I correct?</p><p></p><p>This IS an interesting workaround (if the program still allowed for it - and you say it doesn't), but far from user friendly.</p><p></p><p>You see we have two negative WAFactors here:</p><p></p><p>1) The user should KNOW that if (s)he presses a channel switch mistakenly, should NOT press the original channel again, just rewind (not intuitive).</p><p></p><p>2) The user will experience the "weird" (completely logical but still weird to the end user) side-effect of experiencing the channel switch accident again (waiting for it to end without touching the remote), when the recorded buffer reaches the "accident". Again counter intuitive, since subconciously many users would just reach for the remote to return to the correct channel (messing things EVEN more and adding one more "switch" in their future buffer).</p><p></p><p>My (well that doesn't mean I hold any patents and that nobody have thought about it before) idea, is to add a simple logic when a channel switch is pressed doing this in pseudo-code:</p><p></p><p>[code]</p><p>if channel-change-pressed</p><p> then if live - current > 10 sec [i](i.e. for some reason we are more than 10 secs behind live)[/i]</p><p> then ask user if sure about the switch</p><p>[/code]</p><p></p><p>shouldn't be too complex in real code</p><p></p><p>and if someone hates it, it could be added as a configurable option (although a better configurable option should just be the trigger delay... so if someone puts 0 seconds in configuration, the system should consider it as ffffffff secs and never trigger the check)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NLS, post: 55333, member: 20102"] hmmm initially I thought you hit the nail on the head... then I think it is not the same thing to just "keep recording"... let me explain... 1) we are watching channel A, we are maybe 2 secs behind live (normal timeshift) that we consider as "live"... 2) ...then at 10 mins play time (on live), I have to go to the King's Throne, so I press pause 3) ...I return after 2 mins and press resume... I continue watching and I am in start+10', while live is at start +12' (and +2' from my view) 4) then after 3 more mins (start+13' view, start+15' live) I switch to channel B (mistake or not, irrelevant) for 10 secs, of course watching B live right? 5) ...and switch back to channel A ...what should happen now? Would I see from start+13' (plus 10" I missed) OR would I go to A live and miss the two mins I was in pause? Since probably there is no program logic "remembering" that there are 2 mins extra buffer for channel A, switching back to channel A would in fact kill my recorded 2'... except if you just mean that if I mistakenly press a channel switch then I should just press rewind to "rewind" the... channel change. Is that what you mean? Then I guess after 3 mins (where I reach the buffer time where I had the channel switch), I would just see a "virtual" channel switch of 10 secs (since the buffer would have that recorder too). Am I correct? This IS an interesting workaround (if the program still allowed for it - and you say it doesn't), but far from user friendly. You see we have two negative WAFactors here: 1) The user should KNOW that if (s)he presses a channel switch mistakenly, should NOT press the original channel again, just rewind (not intuitive). 2) The user will experience the "weird" (completely logical but still weird to the end user) side-effect of experiencing the channel switch accident again (waiting for it to end without touching the remote), when the recorded buffer reaches the "accident". Again counter intuitive, since subconciously many users would just reach for the remote to return to the correct channel (messing things EVEN more and adding one more "switch" in their future buffer). My (well that doesn't mean I hold any patents and that nobody have thought about it before) idea, is to add a simple logic when a channel switch is pressed doing this in pseudo-code: [code] if channel-change-pressed then if live - current > 10 sec [i](i.e. for some reason we are more than 10 secs behind live)[/i] then ask user if sure about the switch [/code] shouldn't be too complex in real code and if someone hates it, it could be added as a configurable option (although a better configurable option should just be the trigger delay... so if someone puts 0 seconds in configuration, the system should consider it as ffffffff secs and never trigger the check) [/QUOTE]
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