[vdr] Re: "stand-by-recording"

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:26:48 +0100, DOm wrote:

>> >It's a little bit hard for me to describe, because my english isn't
>> >so good, but i want to try it:
>> >I want to record in background the same, what i'm watching - but the
>> >recordingfile should has a static size (for example 1gb).
>> >So if the file is full, i want to delete the beginning of the file
>> >like i write new data at the end:
>> >  abcdefghi ==> bcdefghij ==> cdefghijk ==> ... ==> hijklmnop
>> >  |--1gb--|     |--1gb--|     |--1gb--|             |--1gb--|
>> >I hope you could understand, what i mean :-)
>> What you mean is some kind of ring-buffer. If the buffer gets filled
>> it being overwritten from the beginning.
>It's more likely a "sized pipe" ( or a "cached pipe"), isn't it?

A pipe normally has no big buffer, at least not one with 1 GB... ;-))



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