[vdr] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.99pre5

[Uwe Freese <mail@uwe-freese.de>]

Hello Klaus,

I installed the new VDR-pre5 and drivers from Feb. 2, and all works very
well. :)
Five  timers  with  different  use of the TITLE and EPISODE keywords and
different subdir structure were tested. For me, it seems to work!

KS> - The special keywords TITLE and EPISODE can now be used in timer file names
KS>   (see MANUAL and FORMATS for details).
KS> - The new setup parameter NameInstantRecord can be used to define how an
KS>   instant recording will be named (see MANUAL for details).

- I  think  the  option  "Mark instand Recording" (with the @) is obsolete
  now.  You could delete the option and add the @ to the VDR character set
  so  that  the  user  can  set  the  "Instant  Record  name" to "@TITLE -
  EPISODE".

- The  title "TITLE - EPISODE" looks better than "TITLE-EPISODE", I think,
  so it sould be the default entry.

- By now, when no EPG subtitle is received but a title is received (like
  RTL2),  an instant recording is named "Somename - " which also doesn't
  look  nice. Any idea how to make it "Somename" in this case? What if I
  set  a  timer  to "TITLE - EPISODE Backup" (not "~" !)?
  There  are  so  many  cases,  I don't know how to handle this. Maybe a
  blank (_) is the most simple way.

  Hm, I have another idea right now. One could make options

     NOTITLESTRING   = CHANNEL
     NOEPISODESTRING = unknown

  which  means that if no EPG title / episode string is received and the
  user  used  the  TITLE and EPISODE keywords, they are replaced by this
  strings. CHANNEL means the channel name and is also a "macro".

Bye, Uwe.