[vdr] Re: two VDR boxes

[Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>]

Lars von Wedel wrote:
> I think, it would be sufficient to check whether a recording with a
> certain name already exists and choose a different name for the
> recording directory.
No. If a restart happens while recording, VDR notices that the recording 
is already present, and just appends a new video segment to continue 
recording. Thats why two machines recording to the same folder 
interleave their video: One recording goes to 001.vdr, 003.vdr, 005.vdr, 
the other to 002.vdr, 004.vdr, etc.

If VDR finds a recording folder matching the current one, it would have 
to check whether this recording is still running by some other VDR, or 
if its from a previous crash and needs to be continued. Thats difficult 
to decide.

Cheers,

Udo