[vdr] Re: vdr - some general questions

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Tobias Meyer-Janson wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I try to assemble a LinuxVDR-System and have some questions:
> 
> - I noticed that playing  recordings stops about 1s befor the end. Is
> that normal? Also if I set a cutting mark at the very beginning and one
> at the end of a recording, the cutting result is shorter than the
> source.
> 
> - Is there a rule, when deleted files will be removed? I noticed that in
> my case vdr often removes that files, when space for cuttings or new
> recordings is needed. Wouldn't it be better to do that when vdr idles?

The files/directries are only deleted in OSD. They are kept on disk 
until new space is needed in case you deleted something wrong.

> 
> - How long should a cutting process take? In my case I think it is ~20%
> of the length of the result.

Should be right. The complete record is copied except the parts you 
didn't mark. Think about 5 Gigabytes being copied!

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> TMJ
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