[vdr] Re: questions, features, problems, bugs ?

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

"Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I oibserved some things that puzzle me:
> 
> 1. recording a channel with two audio pid's works only if the secondary apid
> is used at the point in time where the recording starts. If you start a
> minute early (and something that does not use the 2nd apid ist running) only
> the prinary apid is recorded for the whole recording.

I don't see why VDR should not record the secondary audio stream, even if
it is not yet broadcast at the time the recording starts. VDR sets up the
necessary filters and collects the data as it comes.

Could this be a driver problem?

> 2. If you have the same channel multiple times in your channels.conf (e.g.
> PW sport 1 and F1 studio) and try to record the later entry via the scheduls
> menu, the recording defaults to the first channel in the channels.conf and
> not to the one you were watching at that time.

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.
Can you be more specific?

> 3. spaces ' ' in names of recordings are replaced with underscores '_' in
> directory names by vdr. Why ? My vdr has no problems if I replace the
> underscores with spaces in  the directory.

This is done because it is generally a bad idea to have blanks in file/directory
names. There are several other characters that are converted in order to avoid
problems (see VDR/recording.c).

> 4. (maybe no vdr related problem) I use the VFAT=1 option in order to use
> SMB mounts. But as soon as there are special characters in the recordings
> name (e.g. umlaut charcters (ä,ö,ü), sharp s (ß) or single quote (')) I
> ambable to see the directories within windows, but cannot access them. I.e.
> they are not recognized as directories.

Must be a Windows/Samba problem.

Klaus
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