[vdr] Re: Suggestion: new SVDRP command to cut a recording

[Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>]

hm@seneca.muc.de wrote:

> Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de> wrote:
>
> > > I would like to implement a new SVDRP command to have a remote machine 
> > > start a cutting thread. Reason: 
> > > My 2 machines share a common NFS with all the recordings on it. Cutting
> > > should always take place on the fast server that hosts the NFS. The much
> > > slower living room machine should not be bothered with cutting, having to
> > > read and write everything over the WLAN. It would be easy to implement a
> > > reccmds entry, invoking a cutting thread on the server if we had a SVDRP
> > > command, like
> > >
> > > RCUT <dirname>
> > I double that suggestion. And even better would it be to be able to choose the destination 
> > directory !
>
> That's hard to implement I guess, mainly because it would require far
> more communication between client and server. The default behaviour
> (same directory, % prepended) is just okay with me. But you're welcome to
> add this feature :-)) 
> Klaus, what do you think? 
It's very easy toDo - not within vdr but you can do it within a skript.
If you patch vdr with the diff below you can use the record script for adding such a feature.
The record script will be called with the name of the new directory.
Just create a link with that name and you can record an any drive you want to.
Maybe Klaus will add this little extension sometimes ...
--
Helmut Auer, helmut@helmutauer.de



diff -ru vdr-1.3.12/cutter.c vdr-patch/cutter.c
--- vdr-1.3.12/cutter.c    2004-06-13 18:04:08.000000000 +0200
+++ vdr-patch/cutter.c    2004-07-23 10:11:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
        editedVersionName = strdup(evn);
        Recording.WriteSummary();
        Recordings.AddByName(editedVersionName);
+        cRecordingUserCommand::InvokeCommand(RUC_BEFORECUTRECORDING, editedVersionName);
        cuttingThread = new cCuttingThread(FileName, editedVersionName);
        return true;
        }
diff -ru vdr-1.3.12/recording.h vdr-patch/recording.h
--- vdr-1.3.12/recording.h    2004-07-17 13:09:49.000000000 +0200
+++ vdr-patch/recording.h    2004-07-23 10:07:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
#define RUC_BEFORERECORDING "before"
#define RUC_AFTERRECORDING  "after"
#define RUC_EDITEDRECORDING "edited"
+#define RUC_BEFORECUTRECORDING "cut"

class cRecordingUserCommand {
private: