2008-01-31, 10:54 PM
One feature I would love to see is a log-file for recordings that lists the recording name and the number of stream discontinuities encountered, for DVB/ATSC.
That way, if you record a particular programme at different showing times, you can quickly see if one of them is better than the other. Perhaps one is recorded during the week at 5pm and has 20 discontinuities but another recorded at 2am and has 0 discontinuities. You can quickly see which one to discard and which to keep. Perhaps then in the event of a PC with multiple (unused) tuners it would even be possible to do a feature whereby every instance of a program is recorded automatically (from the EPG) and then the one with the lowest error count and highest bitrate is automatically retained.
That way, if you record a particular programme at different showing times, you can quickly see if one of them is better than the other. Perhaps one is recorded during the week at 5pm and has 20 discontinuities but another recorded at 2am and has 0 discontinuities. You can quickly see which one to discard and which to keep. Perhaps then in the event of a PC with multiple (unused) tuners it would even be possible to do a feature whereby every instance of a program is recorded automatically (from the EPG) and then the one with the lowest error count and highest bitrate is automatically retained.