[vdr] Re: VDR Feature ideas

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:55:07AM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > 1) Rotating Recordings
> > ======================
> > 
> > Reserve a limited set of recordings for repeating timers (e.g.
> > "Tagesthemen" or "Sandmännchen"). For example, i want to have the 3
> > latest transmissions of Sandmännchen (for rainy days) and the last two
> > Tagesthemen. The Rotating Recording feature would throw away (in FIFO
> > manner) old recordings and keep only the specified number and the latest
> > recordings.
> 
> I don't think something like this should be build into VDR. A small
> script is enough for realizing this. (It simply deletes all, except the
> $MAXCOUNT oldest, recordings in the "RECORDING" Subdir)

Not oldest, i mean it won't delete the $MAXCOUNT newest files.

Another thing. the "ls" commands needs another 2 options "-rt"
(Sorting by time, in reverse order. Otherwise it would delete wrong dirs
if Subdir-Format isn't "<Date><Time>.rec")



Bis denn

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