[vdr] Re: summer / wintertime: 24h-recording

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

Oliver Endriss wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 27 October 2002 20:05, Uwe Heinrich wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I found something nice:
> > recording from epg: start 2:30 am (dst) end 3:14 am (dst) or 2:14 am
> > ( in winter time)
> >
> > Unfortunately, I didn't check the timer- in fact it was an
> > autotimer-event.
> >
> > Imagine what happened?
> > Right: when I switched the screen on- the recording already had over
> > 17h. And vdr did it's job well: it deleted some "older"
> > recordings....
> >
> > OK- basically it's my fault, but is there a way to avoid such nice
> > things? Is this something for me- as user or can the os or vdr help
> > me?
> 
> RTFM.
> If you don't like that vdr deletes old recordings, you have to set the
> lifetime of the recording(s) to 99.
> For new recordings the Default lifetime can be specified in
> Setup-Recording...
> 
> @Klaus: Wouldn't it be better to use 99 as the 'factory setting'?

I guess whatever default value VDR uses will be wrong for somebody... ;-)
If I make it 99, sooner or later somebody will complain that a new
recording wasn't made due to some old stuff still occupying disk space.

Klaus
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