[mythtv] [PATCH] Time Stretch UI stuff

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 07:59:20 UTC 2005


Talking of FF/REW, is any one working on adding the "smooth" FF/REW
code back in to CVS? Was working perfectly just before the 0.17
release, but was removed/broken on release and ever since.

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:18:25 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+mydev at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:52:39PM -0700, henri wrote:
> >
> >
> > attached is a patch that does 4 things:
> >
> > - pressing the "TOGGLESTRETCH" actually toggles the time
> > stretch (or is it now called tempo?) OSD. [not sure i did
> > that right, just cut'n'pasted from some other handler code]
> >
> > - adds support for "STRETCHINC" and "STRETCHDEC" in the
> > keybindings (event code was there)
> >
> > - adds "RESETSTRETCH" keybinding to get you back to 1x speed
> >
> > - changes the timeout for the OSD from 10 (too long compared
> > to the rest of the UI) to either 2 (if you hit
> > STRETCHINC,DEC, or RESET) or 5 (if you go into TOGGLESTRETCH)
> >
> >
> > hope the keybindings are ok... hard to find free keys these days!
> >
> > btw. Time Stretch ROCKS! now if the eeprom would get here
> > for me to hack my remote using the JP1 plug (URC 6131) to
> > actually get buttons bound for INC, DEC and RESET....
> 
> It is useful, but the UI as you note has unanswered questions.
> 
> In particular, as coded the left and right arrows provided adjustment
> of the rate, but if the UI timed out, suddenly those arrows turned
> back to 30 second skip -- very frustrating.    Having modes on those
> keys is a tricky situation.
> 
> On the other hand having yet more keys in an already heavily loaded
> key set isn't great either.
> 
> I see that 3x smooth FF has joined the stickeykeys RW/FF set which is
> good.
> 
> I am torn because in some ways timestretch is like RW/FF and one would
> say "do it like stickeykeys" namely:
>         a) Space returns to normal
>         b) Increment and Decrement keys turn it on
>         c) Digits allow quick jump to particular speeds
> 
> On the other hand it's also like a permanent watching mode which should
> not take over regular keys like spacebar and digits.   However, the
> idea of having its own dedicated increment/decrement which are also how
> you turn it on.    It would be OK to have it so that a digit pressed
> _before_ the increment or decrement key would go to a specific setting,
> which would also give a 2-keystroke "turn it off" sequence.
> 
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