[vdr] Re: System freeze - scanning recordings ... --> FLATFILE?

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

Steffen Koch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >>>>Just an idea:
> >>>>Wouldn't it improve performance to store the data
> >>>>concerning recordings in a single flatfile?
> >>>What do you mean by "single flatfile"?
> >>Single flatfile is meant to be a textfile -let's call it
> >>'recordings.dat'- in which each line represents an existing recording.
> >>This flatfile is updated every time VDR finishes a recording or deletes
> >>a recording.
> >>The advantage would be that you don't need to scan the
> >>recordings-directory every time. You just parse the flatfile instead.
> >>This is IMHO significant faster.
> > Ah, I see. I'm going to do it that way in 1.3, but not in an explicit
> > external file. VDR will cache the recordings internally and update that
> > cache whenever it adds or deletes a recording.
> 
> What about updating this file on demand to add/delete
> self-deleted/created recordings?

VDR will regularly check whether the chache is still up-to-date.

> Another request: Using other directory than video0 for storing recording
> hierarchies?

You can use the -v option for this.

Klaus


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