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

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:57:10AM +0100, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > > > @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.
> >
> > And it was "99" until i suggested to change it to 50, so that there
> > is space above and below the "default".
> >
> > But that was a long time ago. :-)
> 
> IMHO, a computer should _never_ delete anything automagically, except it 
> has been explicitly configured to do so. This was one of the first 
> settings I changed when I installed vdr. But this is a matter of taste 
> and can be changed easily...

You have the choice between.

a) Automatically deleting
b) Failed recordings because of disc full.

Whatever you like more. :-)






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