[vdr] Re: Two recordings on the same channel, only one card

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Martin Schoenbeck wrote:
> 
> Hello Klaus,
> 
> when recording two adjacent broadcasts on the same channel, there will
> be used two cards for a while, because of the additional 'security' time
> before and after each recording. I didn't investigate the source,
> whether it would be easy, to record into two files from one card. But I
> think, it should be possible, to start with a new file, as soon as the
> second recording starts and then link this file with both recordings. Of
> course, the file itself must be deleted only, if both recordings were
> deleted, but perhaps this could be managed, by placing it in another
> area.

I'm afraid this would require some pretty deep changes in the overall
structure of VDR, so I don't think I'm going to do anything like that
right now.

There will be some major changes in VDR after version 1.0.0, though.
I'll try to keep this idea in mind when doing that.

Klaus
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