[vdr] Re: "Bug" in cutting function of VDR

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauri Pesonen [mailto:lauri.pesonen@iki.fi]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: VDR list
> Subject: [vdr] Re: "Bug" in cutting function of VDR
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 15:37, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > I'm open to suggestions here. I made it so that the edited 
> file is overwritten
> > because I thought that one would want to correct the 
> editing marks and try again.
> > There's no real reason why it couldn't just add an index to 
> the resulting
> > recordings. There should, though, be a setup option to 
> control this - otherwise
> > users who are used to the current behaviour might end up 
> with a full disk...
> > 
> > Klaus
> 
> First of all, I like the current functionality. It is very 
> simple to use
> (you don't have to specifically edit the old files) and it's 
> safe, i.e.
> you cannot fill up your disk by accident. On the other hand I'm not
> writing my recordings to CD-Rs so my cutting needs are limited to
> cutting out adds.
> 
> A thought just occurred to me, that one could of course add 
> another type
> of cutting mark to the system. With cutting mark A the cut out portion
> would just be removed from the file, but the actual file would stay in
> one piece. One would use this function to cut out adds. With cutting
> mark B the file would be split, nothing would be removed. I 
> did not look
> at the source how simple this would be to implement. Might be 
> that it's
> not trivial and it would mess up the current user interface, i.e. old
> users might have problems with cutting if the change was not 
> obvious. In
> practise one could press the 0 buttononce to get a mark-A, 
> twice to get
> a mark-B and three times to get rid of the mark (that is, it's a three
> way toggle).
> 
> On the other hand people have been burning VDR recordings to cds for
> ages without a cutting feature like this with tosvcd for example. The
> only benefit would be that you could targetthe disk change at a scene
> change on the movie.


Cutting is done by a simple even-odd basis from the file marks.vdr

If you want to change the way the '0'-key works in a way you suggested it
would be sufficient to have the first and second key press to add a line
(i.e. time mark) to the file marks.vdr. The third key press would remove the
current line _AND_ all preceeding and/or following line(s) with the exact
same time mark.

CU,
Christian.


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