[vdr] Recordings with the same name

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

Hi,

I noticed that if two recordings with the same name are recorded at the
same time on two different channels, only one of them will be recorded.
This happens on two Finnish channels where one channel sends new episodes
of Friends and another sends reruns at the exact same time. The name of
both shows is simply "Friends". So this is what happens:

20:28:00: timer 16 (7 2028-2110 'Friends~Frendit') start
20:28:00: Title: 'Frendit' Subtitle: '<removed>'
20:28:00: record /video/Friends/Frendit/2004-05-04.20:28.50.50.rec
20:28:00: creating directory /video/Friends
20:28:00: creating directory /video/Friends/Frendit
20:28:00: creating directory /video/Friends/Frendit/2004-05-04.20:28.50.50.rec
20:28:00: recording to '/video/Friends/Frendit/2004-05-04.20:28.50.50.rec/001.vdr'
20:28:00: recording thread started (pid=3390, tid=213006)
20:28:00: receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=3391, tid=229391)
20:28:01: timer 22 (6 2028-2115 'Friends~Frendit') start
20:28:01: Title: 'Frendit' Subtitle: '<removed>'
20:28:01: already recording: '/video/Friends/Frendit/2004-05-04.20:28.50.50.rec'
20:28:01: timer 22 (6 2028-2115 'Friends~Frendit') stop

The timer 16 starts before and thus overrides 22 which starts immediately
after. Both episodes have the same name from the EPG info and same other
info too so this collision seems unavoidable. The only thing that makes
them unique is the channel id. Would it be possible to name the recordings
additionally with the channel id, something like:

/video/Friends/Frendit/2004-05-04.X.20:28.50.50.rec

where X is the channel id.

I know this is a very weird special case of recordings, but it can't be
that uncommon for a "big" channel to have secondary channel mainly for
reruns, series or other cheaper stuff?

Regards,
    Jan Ekholm

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