[vdr] Re: VDR deletes fresh recordings

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

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger)  15.01.05 14:51
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> > Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> >
> > > VDR seems to have deleted the first recordings, or?
> > > Why?
>
> > Because the directory had the ".del" extension?!
>
> How could that have happened?
Look what I found in the log file you just sent me via PM:

Jan 14 08:21:15 msi vdr[29270]: timer 132 (272 0700-2345 'ESA') stop
Jan 14 08:21:58 msi vdr[29270]: confirm: Delete recording?
Jan 14 08:22:01 msi vdr[29270]: confirmed
Jan 14 08:22:01 msi vdr[29270]: deleting recording /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec

> If i would have pressed "delete" all recordings would 
> have been gone. (As "timers" and "recording" behaves similiar
> that could easily happen)
Right after the delete above you have apparently edited the timer
and started it again:

Jan 14 08:22:20 msi vdr[29270]: timer 132 activated
Jan 14 08:22:21 msi vdr[29270]: timer 132 deactivated
Jan 14 08:22:22 msi vdr[29270]: timer 132 activated
Jan 14 08:22:24 msi vdr[29270]: editing timer 132
Jan 14 08:22:30 msi vdr[29270]: switching device 2 to channel 272
Jan 14 08:22:30 msi vdr[29270]: timer 132 (272 0700-2345 'ESA') start
Jan 14 08:22:30 msi vdr[29270]: waiting for EPG info...
Jan 14 08:22:34 msi vdr[29270]: no EPG info available
Jan 14 08:22:34 msi vdr[29270]: record /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec
Jan 14 08:22:34 msi vdr[29270]: creating directory /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec
Jan 14 08:22:34 msi vdr[29270]: recording to '/video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec/001.vdr'

This has created a situation where there are the directories

  /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.del
  /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec

from the previous recording (note that the directory on /video1 is still
named '.rec'), plus the directory

  /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec

from the new recording, which has links into the /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec
directory. At the time you have deleted the first recording there were 5 video
files (001.vdr ... 005.vdr). As soon as VDR actually removed the
/video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.del directory, it also removed these
file files, since the links pointed to them.

A solution to this problem might be to also rename the directories
on other disks when deleting a recording - but the again this is just
one more reason to drop this whole linking stuff altogether...

> Too: there was no reason to delete at that time
> (no reboot or so)
>
> Was there too much free?
VDR removes deleted recordings whenever it seems suitable.

> > > Why is it removing the files, but not the links?
>
> > AFAICS it did remove the links for the first 5 files:
>
> Only The files, not the links!
>
> See my first mailing.
>
>
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> > 23:28:34[29270]: removing /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec/001.vdr   
> > 23:28:38[29270]: removing /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.del/001.vdr 
> > ...
>
> The links still exists:
> : replay /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec
> : loading /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec//marks.vdr
As explained above, these have been created by your _second_ recording.

> # ll /video0/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec
> total 10616
> lrwxrwxrwx       46 Jan 14 08:22 001.vdr -> /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec/001.vdr
> lrwxrwxrwx       46 Jan 14 09:37 002.vdr -> /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec/002.vdr
> lrwxrwxrwx       46 Jan 14 10:36 003.vdr -> /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07:00.50.07.rec/003.vdr
>
> # ll /video1/ESA/2005-01-14.07\:00.50.07.rec/
> total 16683408
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2097234834 Jan 14 14:42 006.vdr
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2097285906 Jan 14 15:42 007.vdr
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2097199690 Jan 14 16:44 008.vdr
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2097344955 Jan 14 17:46 009.vdr
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2097276945 Jan 14 19:08 010.vdr
>
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> > > Why does vdr simply display a blackscreen,
> > > if it can't open the file?
>
> > Doesn't it return to live video?
>
> No. It stays simply black.
> (i would have expected live or a warning "video not present yet" )
Ok, then I guess there needs to be some extra checking in case a 00x.vdr
file is missing.

Klaus