[vdr] Re: Master timer?

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:46:12PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> > "Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hmmm ... I'd use the timer menu (OK vdr-1.0.4) for several series
>> > > like StarTrek (NG, DS9), some more and Sentinel.  It work flawless,
>> > > nevertheless the starting time of Sentinel at Kabel1 are always moving
>> > > around between 22:00 and 23:00 ... in other words it would be nice to
>> > > have the possiblitiy to say within VDRs timer menu "Be ready at 22:00
>> > > but do only record if found the start time of series within the EPG data"
>> >
>> > And what if, for whatever reason, the EPG data is wrong? Maybe a missing letter,
>> > like "Starrek" instead of "StarTrek"? If VDR would then decide not to record
>> > anyting, I guess you would be pretty furious ;-)
>> 
>> OK ... this would require an id for series which has be set by the
>> program its self.  The question is: is there something like an
>> id within the EPG data?  And maybe there exsist something like an
>> id in the video mpeg stream of the program which may correspond
>> to the id of the EPG data ...
>> 
>> ... OR ... the timer menu just provides the possibilty of setting
>> a fallback for the worst case ;^)
>
>I guess these things should rather be done by external programs,
>like MasterTimer.
>VDR simply records what you tell it (via channel, date, start and stop time).
>Anything else are things where everybody has different ideas who
>it should be done...

Meaning you have to go to another rooom, boot your computer, log in, find
the external app, find the show and mark it as "record always" each time
you find a new show you're interested in? Instead of pressing a button on
the remote while you sip your beer sitting in the sofa? :)

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