[vdr] Re: instant recording - timer?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:51:07 +0200, Stefaan Coddé
<Stefaan.Codde@pandora.be> wrote:

> I'm new to VDR an recorded Star Treks episode 1 (Pro7) with the instant
> recording feature but what a surprise to see that only 1hour 59 minutes
> has been recorded.  I wonder why instant recording is timed.
> 
> You could say to me ...RTFM but it would be obvious to set no time limit
> at all on instant recording as default ...for instance...let the harddisk size
> be the limitation and if the user want's to limit the time, then to change a
> setting. If a user starts instant recording then he (or she) can stop the
> recording usual..no?

And if the user forgets to stop he may have lost a lot of old
recordings.

> 
> btw.. it would be handy to be able to enable the timed end of the recording
> during the recording if the user expects not to stop recording manually.

Why didn't you change the end time in the timer menu. ;-)

Emil