[vdr] Re: instant recording - timer?

[Martin Schoenbeck <News.Martin@Schoenbeck.de>]

Hi Stefaan,

Stefaan Coddé schrieb:
> Can't argue with you on that point but there is.
> You didn't saw the need to integrate auto sat/transponder search neither.
> 
> Not only computer users would love to control a VDR box and there are
> enough people who hardly can operate a timed video recording on a
> analog video recorder.

But you already started with wrong arguments. You told us, that 'normal'
videorecorders stop at the end of the tape, if you start recording while
watching TV. This is not true for many newer recorders. Nearly all of
them will stop, if the vps-signal is present and the actual broadcast
ends. Many will only record half an hour, until you press the recording
button again. And even then, the argument, to mold computerized
equipment by existing hardware is here as wrong, as it is, to implement
shift-lock instead of caps-lock, because typewriters had only this.

I think, the main reason, to start a recording while the movie is
already running, is because you are in a hurry, to leave home or you
want to go to bed. In both cases, you won't stop the recording by
yourself, but it will mostly be no problem to record an hour more than
necessary. But ten hours would. I never had a problem with the two hour
length. If I had any doubt, whether it would be enough, I increased the
timer. And if Klaus now implements a configurable duration, which could
even be endless, the only better solution would be, to know, when the
movie is done. 

> The free disk space stays the problem , even when the timer is set to 2 or 3
> hours but as written in my previous message.. a free disk space message
> on the main EPG screen telling how much time there's left on the
> harddisk(s).

What would really help, is an estimation and a hint, if the programmed
recordings are expected to go beyond the capacity.

Martin