[vdr] Re: Working genindex for VDR (included)

[Gregoire Favre <greg@ulima.unil.ch>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:10:56PM +0100, Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:
> Hello Werner,
> actually, you don't need genindex for your needs. 
> Aalthough I apriciate your work, since I was bothered by the same problems
> some time ago. But I found a nice solution:
> Internally the index.vdr consists of one file per 00x.vdr concatenated to
> one large file. I.e. the index start with 0 with every 00x.vdr file. To
> reference the correct 00x.vdr file the number (i.e. 00x) is stored in
> index.vdr, too.
> Therefore, to distribute recordings over many CD-R you only need to split
> the existing index.vdr at the file switch boundaries. VDR doesn't mind
> starting replay with e.g. 002.vdr as long as index.vdr tells it to do so. I
> wrote a litte set of scripts/progs to accomplish this a while ago.
> To watch the movies from CD-R one of the scripts restores the files in the
> video-dir and creates a link to the 00x.vdr on CD-R (or copies it to HDD).
> By concatenating all index.vdr of one movie I am able to recreate the
> original index.vdr.
> If someone is interested I can post the collection of scripts tomorrow on
> this list.

Yes, for sure I am interested ;-))
Including cdrecord/cdrdao commands arguments as well to store the
files...

Thanks you very much,

	Grégoire
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