[linux-dvb] Re: feature suggestion for vdr

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Martin Hammerschmid wrote:
> 
> The possibility to have multiple 'resume.vdr'-files
> might be useful for a networked configuration
> where several vdr boxes share one common video
> directory to store the recordings and recorded movies
> are watched by different people.
> 
> http://home.pages.at/linux/vdr-0.84-ResumeID.28.07.01.diff.gz
> 
> This patch adds "ResumeID" (a number between 0 and 9)
> to the setup menu of vdr. Depending on this number
> resume.0, ... ,resume.9 will be used instead of resume.vdr.

Hmmm, what I don't like about this is the fact that it breaks with
the '*.vdr' extensions...

Also: limiting this to one digit may sooner or later cause problems
for somebody working with a very large installation.

I'd suggest to keep the default resume file name as 'resume.vdr'
and use arbitrary integer ids to identify different clients.
If the id is '0', the default 'resume.vdr' will be used, and any
non-zero value (e.g. '12') will result in 'resume.12.vdr'.

Well, why make it an integer anyway? An arbitrary string might be
even more flexible. Could be the host name or a user's name.

What I'm also wondering about is whether this should really be
a Setup parameter, or rather a command line option? I would vote
for a command line option, since there would already have to be
several options in a multi user setup, and I guess that would be
the right place for such a parameter.

Any objections?

Klaus
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