[vdr] Re: summer / wintertime: 24h-recording

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > 
> > On Sunday 27 October 2002 20:05, Uwe Heinrich wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I found something nice:
> > > recording from epg: start 2:30 am (dst) end 3:14 am (dst) or 2:14 am
> > > ( in winter time)
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I didn't check the timer- in fact it was an
> > > autotimer-event.
> > >
> > > Imagine what happened?
> > > Right: when I switched the screen on- the recording already had over
> > > 17h. And vdr did it's job well: it deleted some "older"
> > > recordings....
> > >
> > > OK- basically it's my fault, but is there a way to avoid such nice
> > > things? Is this something for me- as user or can the os or vdr help
> > > me?
> > 
> > RTFM.
> > If you don't like that vdr deletes old recordings, you have to set the
> > lifetime of the recording(s) to 99.
> > For new recordings the Default lifetime can be specified in
> > Setup-Recording...
> > 
> > @Klaus: Wouldn't it be better to use 99 as the 'factory setting'?
> 
> I guess whatever default value VDR uses will be wrong for somebody... ;-)
> If I make it 99, sooner or later somebody will complain that a new
> recording wasn't made due to some old stuff still occupying disk space.

And it was "99" until i suggested to change it to 50, so that there is
space above and below the "default".

But that was a long time ago. :-)






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