[vdr] Re: Idea: Change DVB card while recording

["Koch, Steffen" <steffen.koch@sphinx-elektronik.de>]

I've done this manually.
- rename the second recordings files to 00X.vdr where X is last vdrs video
files +1 (can someone follow me??)
- move the renamed second recordings video files (only XXX.vdr) to the first
videos directory
- delete the index.vdr
- use "genindex" to generate a new index file
- then cut out the double parts.

so I concat'ed a recording which was on a little late but was repeated at
night. Unfortunately in the nights recording the start was missing. Or was
it the other way round?? Doesn't matter, as it worked fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Kuba [mailto:marcus@kuba4u.de]
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 4:26 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Idea: Change DVB card while recording
> 
> 
> Am 28.10.2001 15:10:30, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger 
> <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>:
> 
> >As I said: technically this is certainly possible - but I 
> really don't think
> >it is worth building all this complex (and error prone) 
> stuff into VDR, just
> >for a very rare case...
> 
> A question... is it possible to concatenate two overlapping 
> recordings to one?
> If it where possible to just copy/rename the *.vdr-files from 
> the second recording to the 
> directory of the first and append the second index.vdr to the 
> first (don't know if this is 
> possible.. if there is information in the index that includes 
> the number of the 00x.vdr, this 
> would have to be corrected), one could easily cut the 
> overlapping parts. Since all cutting 
> is based on I-Frames and those I-Frames should be equal in 
> both recordings, it shouldn't 
> be too hard to find two identical frames in the stream and 
> mark them as start/stop for the 
> cutting.
> 
> Greetings,   Marcus
> 
> 
>