[vdr] Re: Distributed VDR

[Klaus Gerding <KGerding@Nambari.com>]

hello distributing fans

ok, the locking mechanism is necessary to prevent deleting a 
recording that is in use.  
for the timer-conflicts etc. there is a half ready solution! 
there is the svdrp!!! the second half is to implement a client-
osd, that uses the svdrp. and distributing is ready for this fact.

maybe it is possible to implement the locking mechanism for locking
and freeing a resource/recording in the svdrp.

bye,
klaus 


Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> 
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> 
> It's not just about command line options to disable recording or replaying.
> There's a lot more to this. Each client will want to create/modify/delete
> timers, and will want to delete recordings. What if one client is just replaying
> a recording, while another one decides to delete it? What if one client programs
> a timer, and another one decides to cancel that timer because he/she wants to
> record something else?
> 
> I know, there have been postings suggesting to use a database for all this.
> But this is definitely not the direction I want to go. I don't want to have
> to run an SQL database just for my VDR box.
> 
> One rather simple solution might be to allow modifications to the configuration
> only from one particular client, so the other clients would simply be "viewers"
> without the right to modify anything. But even then a "viewer" might be replaying
> a recording and the "main" client could decide to delete that recording. So there
> would probably have to be several locking mechanisms to manage all these situations.
> 
> I'm currently busy with implementing the plugin interface, so I won't be doing
> anything in that direction. Also, please note that several core VDR code areas
> will be heavily modified to allow plugins, so in case you decide to do any modifications
> in the core VDR code, you may have to redo them after the plugin interface has been
> fully implemented.
> 
> Klaus
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