[vdr] Re: Update cached names

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

Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
> 
> Wolfgang Goeller wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > It's a good thing that vdr caches the recordings and does not need
> > to search the files. But sometimes this method has disadvantages.
> > Say I make a recording of several documentations - as you get it
> > from ARTE. When I edit this mulit-recordings, I do split them and
> > each record get's its own name. But now there is no way to remove
> > the recordings from the vdr menu.
> > Just to be precise:
> > I record "Arte_Themenabend" then I split it to
> > %Sonntags_nie
> > %Melina_Mercouri
> > In the list of the recordings from vdr I have only
> > %Arte_Themenabend - which in fact doesn't exist.
> > The only way to update the recording-list is to restart vdr.
> > There should be a button to make vdr reread it's cache.
> 
> Maybe you want to try the "manual recording scan patch" posted on this
> list recently.

... which could have been done without patching VDR by simply adding a command like

Scan recordings: touch /video/.update

to 'commands.conf' ;-)

Klaus