[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.3

[Nicolas Huillard]

Klaus Schmidinger a écrit :
> On 08.01.2009 18:50, user.vdr wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Klaus Schmidinger
>> <Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de> wrote:
>>>  + The directory name for a recording has been changed from
>>>    YYYY-MM-DD-hh[.:]mm.pr.lt.rec (pr=priority, lt=lifetime) to
>>>    YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ch-ri.rec (ch=channel, ri=resumeId).
>> Is the channel number even necessary information to store in a
>> dirname?  I've experienced many times where channels have been
>> shuffled (requiring a rescanning & a new channels.conf)
>> so channel 100 could be one network today and a different one
>> tomorrow.  Maybe a better choice would be using the channel shortname,
>> for example:
>>
>> YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.CNN-ri.rec
>> YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.BBC-ri.rec
> 
> The channel number would be unnecessary, because that information
> is stored in the 'info' file. However, it is contained in the
> recording's directory name, so that in case two timers of the same VDR
> instance record the exact same programme, but on different channels,
> they don't mix their data into one big pile of goo (which could have
> happenend in VDR 1= 1.7.2). No need to make this a string - it's just
> a safety precaution (besides, two channels might have the *same* name,
> but never the same number).

YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ch-ri.rec does not solve the problem of multiple VDR 
instances recording the same show.
This is a usual problem of multiple instances sharing a single /video dir.
As we're talking about safety here, why not address it right now, once 
and for all ?

If you do not have a unique identifier for each VDR instance yet, the 
only thing I can think of is "hostname" + "SVDRP port number" (this 
identifies both "single instance on many hosts", and "multiple instances 
on a single host").

-- 
NH