[vdr] Re: How to split merged .vdr files and recreate index.vdr ?

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Karsten Müller" <kmu@ratio.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: How to split merged .vdr files and recreate index.vdr ?


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> On Sunday 20 October 2002 18:43, Rene Bartsch wrote:
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> > > If you still have *one* big file, why not drop that into an
appropriate
> > > directory
> >
> > > (/video/.../2002-10-20.01.01.01-99.99.rec/) and then split it with
vdr's
> > > internal cutting function ?
> > >
> > > Isn't vdr able to handle huge files ?
> >
> > Maximum filesize is 2 GByte.
> > We've had a lot of discussions with Klaus Schmidinger to drop that ...
> >
>
> Oops, ok THAT makes my suggestion somewhat impossible ;)
>
> > > BTW: I don't see any advantage by catting all *.vdrs into one file...
> > >      Could you please enlighten me ?
> >
> > A lot of players habe problems switching from one PES-file to another.
> > As there are A/V-differences and no counters at the beginning of a
> > PES-stream, you often get glitches or A/V-asyncs while switching file.
> >
>
> Hmm... seems like unoptimized code to me then. A little (more) buffering
> definitively could handle this...
>

Usually audio starts earlier than video in PES. This confuses a lot of
players (of the few which can play PES).
Even starting MPlayer with 8 MByte cache doesn't solve that problem.

Rene



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