[vdr] Re: disable maxVideoFileSize

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2003-07-15 um 22.16 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > > > I want to provide recordings as streams (e.g. RTSP), which is very
> > > > complicated with several files instead of using one file.
> > >
> > > What is so complicated about closing one file and opening the next?
> > 
> > I haven't found any HTTP/RTSP-server which can handle several files for
> > one stream ...
> 
> See Florian Bartels posting regarding named pipes - might be a way.
> 

Named pipe is a stream where I do not have access to the file index,
isn't it? But I need that for ffw/rew.

> > > > And who has
> > > > the terrabytes necessary for catting all recordings into one-file-copys?
> > >
> > > If you delete the original files after creating your single file recording
> > > you only the the extra space for one recording.
> > 
> > And how does VDR read that BigMac-files exceeding the index?
> 
> It doesn't ;-)
> That's why VDR uses <2GB files.
> 

The question has been more rhetorically to make you aware the fortune of
the whole world of streaming depends on you increasing the type of
index! ;o)

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Rene Bartsch
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Computer Science 8th Semester
FH Giessen/Friedberg, Germany

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