[vdr] Re: Subdirs and Subtitle - another implementation suggestion

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

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Emil Naepflein wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:47:36 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger
> > <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> >
> > > which will name this to whatever the tv station broadcasts at the time.
> > >
> > > If no EPG data is available at the time of recording, TITLE will default
> > > to the station name (with or without the preceeding '@', depending on the
> > > individual setup) and EPISODE will default to "_" (actually a 'blank' character),
> > > which is what it does already in case of a periodic timer.
> > >
> > > Any objections to this?
> >
> > What is with the idea to set title and episode to the info which was
> > transmitted for the longest time during the recording period. Remember
> > that the recording starts normally earlier when the info of the previous
> > transmission is still provided. Another way to handle this is to use the
> > info which is transmitted half-way between start and endtime. The
> > Problem with all this is that all the file structure already exists. A
> > kind of rename functionality would be necessary which also would be
> > useful in other cases.
> 
> I agree.
> But there could be a problem with this.
> As an example, I have all my nano recordings on another disk.
> /video/Science/nano is a symbolic link to  /video2/nano.
> So, if vdr starts to record a new nano episode to /video/yet_unknown
> and later wants to move /video/yet_unknown to /video2/nano, a copy
> is required which would not have been required if the correct location
> would have been used in the first place.
> 
> Carsten.

Don't worry, it doesn't work that way (see my previous posting).

Klaus
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