[mythtv-users] Turning Timestretch On and Off

frosts1 at hotkey.net.au frosts1 at hotkey.net.au
Wed Sep 28 08:13:14 UTC 2005


Quoting frosts1 at hotkey.net.au:

> >  On Sunday 25 September 2005 03:02 am, frosts1 at hotkey.net.au wrote:
> > > Does anyone out there use Timestretch much? I have been using it a bit
> > > lately and I quite like it. I just wish there was an easy way to toggle it
> > > on and off.
> > >
> > > From what I have found, the only way to turn it on is to press 'A' and
> > > then
> > > press the right arrow until it reaches the speed at which you want to
> > > watch. It increments in 0.05x steps which means if you want to watch at
> > > 1.7x for example it takes 15 keystrokes! Then to go back to normal speed
> > > you have to do the same. I have recently found that the up and down arrows
> > > adjust it by 0.25, but even though that helps, the process of turning
> > > timestrecth on and off requires you to press two different keys.
> > >
> > > If you could just toggle it on and off, it would be really useful for
> > > watching some sports where there is brief periods of activity, which you
> > > want to watch in real time, with breaks in between which you want to skip
> > > through quickly (like cricket here in Australia, and I imagine possibly
> > > Baseball in the US). By using timestretch, you could still follow the flow
> > > of the commentary but quickly pass over the lulls in play.
> > >
> > > Anyone know if you can toggle it on and off?
> > 
> > Use the osd menu?
> > 
> > Isaac 
>  
> Because the OSD menu is so many less keypresses?? I'd like to be able to do
> it
> in a single press if possible, because I's like to toggle it on and off every
> 30
> seconds or so. I have proposed a way of acheiving this without adding any
> additional keys. If anyone agrees it's valid, I'll have a go at producing a
> patch.
> 
> Greg Frost
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I have created a ticket and sumbitted a patch to make time stretch behave as I
suggested: http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/391

I did not implement any of the other suggestions because they would have
involved database changes where I'm a bit out of my depth.

Greg Frost


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