[vdr] Re: Stop writing video 2MB before disk full [was Drop supportfor multiplevideo dirs?]

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

"M. Fiegert" wrote:
> 
> Clemens Kirchgatterer schrieb:
> 
> >Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Well, 1-2MB is next to _nothing_ when dealing with video data files.
> >>So I guess it will have to be a _lot_ more than that.
> >>Or was this just a typo and it should have read 1-2GB (gigabyte)?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >i think he really meant only a few MBs. just don't fill the whole disk
> >completely to let room for small administrative files as the resume file
> >for example.
> >
> Yes, thats exactly the point.
> If a video has to stop 2MB earlier that is almost unnoticable.
> But if the disk is completley full, vdr gets real problems and behaves
> quite strange because of the administrative files like
> resume, marks, links,....

Sure, 2MB might be enough for such stuff, but 2MB in video data
is about 4 seconds, which means that VDR would have to check
the free disk space at a rather high rate. Besides, I'd really
suggest to leave at least a few hundred MB free. After all, this is
a disk that has a capacity of several GB - or else it wouldn't be used
for recording video ;-)

Klaus


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