[vdr] Re: /video directories on a CD/DVD?

[Sascha Volkenandt <lists@magoa.net>]

Sorry for the forward, I've entered the wrong sender :-(

Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2004 21:41 schrieb Sascha Volkenandt:
> Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2004 10:24 schrieb Jan Ekholm:
> > Another solution would be to just dump the raw VDR directory hiearchy for
> > a show on a DVD-rw. It would waste lots of space, but should be doable.
> > The actual burning I can do with my normal workstation, but I'd like to
> > be able to just pop a DVD into the VDR machine and whatever is on the
> > disk would show up in the normal "Recordings" menu. So, what I'm
> > wondering is wether VDR can directly use a DVD that is mounted as, say,
> > /video1 (the normal partition would be /video0)? Or are the /videoX
> > directories only scanned when VDR is started, meaning that dynamically
> > mounted disks can't be used? I guess that if the DVD is mounted when VDR
> > starts there is no problem, but what if the DVD is mounted after VDR has
> > started (and also unmounted)?
>
> You can use MediaDetection for that, and even if you don't want that, you
> can use a simple commands.conf layout to achieve what you want:
>
> Mount DVD : mount /dev/dvd /video0/DVD ; touch /video0/.update
>
> DVD is then searched by VDR like a normal recording sub-directory.
>
> Greetings,
> Sascha