[vdr] Re: VDR - doesn\'t play the last seconds of a recording

[Peter Dittmann <peter.dittmann@freenet.de>]

>> P.S. how about an idea to allow the operator to fine tune the cutting points for the separation
>> into separate files (001.vdr, 002.vdr, 003.vdr,....), so the cutting point
>> between individual files can be moved to szene changes of the movie (limited
>> by max filesize). 
> You can fine tune the cutting points with the '4' and '6' keys (see MANUAL).
> To have each sequence in a separate file you can set SplitEditedFiles
> in the "Setup" menu.

Hi Klaus,

It does work but it's painstaking:

First you have to cut the video to get rid of comercial breaks.
Then you have to remove the marks from the cutted recording and mark new blocks.
As the time duration of a [lets say 700MB] recording block is changing
depending on data rate I need to redo the second cutting process if a block
exceeds my maxfilesize (which you need to check from the console after the
cutting to see if some additional small files where produced).
Beside that between the marks a small section of the movie is removed:

So this is how I would wish this feature would work:

 VDR should use different marks for edditing (remove comercials) and file
 separations. May be "5" is turning on the separation marks,"1" and "3" for
 navigate between the seperation marks ("4" and "6" for fine tuning once
 selected). VDR should parse the video file including the edditing marks and
 should not allow to move the separation marks beyound the maxfilesize setting.
 On the copy process I would wish that the I-frame on a separation mark would
 be included in both files. Because this might cause trouble with watching the
 recording on harddisk, how about triggering this cutting by a different key,
 let's say "8" ( and now we run out of keys ;-) )

regards	Peter