[vdr] Re: Recordings aren't shown in vdr

[bernd_muc@gmx.de]

Because seperating hours and minutes with : is the "normal" way to write it 
down. As Klaus will definitely repeat: "Just because windows is to stupid 
for this, why should users of a 'real' operating system cope with it?" :-)

Bernd

At 19:16 05.07.2002 +0200, Habib wrote:
>Hi Thomas,
>
>Ja, ich weiss wohl was VFAT und original unterscheidet. Mein englisch
>ist wohl so schlecht;), dass man im Vor-Vor Post nicht erkennen konnte,
>dass ich das weis. Nur die Frage ist, warum Klaus noch an der
>Originalform mit den : festhält, bzw. welchen Vorteil es sonst noch
>bietet?
>Sorry for the post in german.
>
>Greets
>Habib
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf
>Of Thomas Keil
>Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:11 PM
>To: vdr@linuxtv.org
>Subject: [vdr] Re: Recordings aren't shown in vdr
>
>
>Habib Azimi wrote:
>
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Thx, but I only wanted to explain how it can come to this that VDR
> > finds the files no more. I´ve VDR everytime compiled with the VFAT
> > option. Could somebody explain me the advantage from the other
> > directory format without VFAT?
>
>Windows won't allow ":" in a filename, like VDR-Vanilla uses it (to
>separate hours from minutes) in the directory name of a recording.
>
>The VFAT-Patch replaces the : with a .
>
>In file recording.c at the beginning:
>
>   #define DATAFORMAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
>   #else
>   #define DATAFORMAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d:%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
>   #endif