[vdr] Re: System freeze - scanning recordings ... --> FLATFILE?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
> 
> At Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003 17:25 Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > The various configuration parameters are read and evaluated
> > at program startup, and may greatly influence the way the
> > program behaves. Re-reading those files while VDR is running
> > might work for some of them, but for instance the timers.conf
> > is a little tricky in case a recording is currently going on
> > or the user has a menu open that edits timers.
> 
> You're obviously right about this...
> 
> > Which configuration files would you want to change manually,
> > and why can't this be done from within VDR?
> 
> Well I generally edit channels.conf and sometimes also setup.conf manually.
> For setup.conf, it's just much faster than navigating the OSD while testing
> parameters of own developments,

If you change parameters whicle testing I'd say that you can just
as well restart VDR.

> even since my streaming-server is in the
> living room, and my work-machine and test-client are in another room... For
> channels.conf, it's MUCH faster, since I get most channel entries pasted
> from other ppl's channels.conf. Whenever there is a recording going on
> (which is the case quite often), I can't restart VDR immediately. So at
> least reloading those two (and signalling PlugIns that they should try to
> reload their setupfiles) would be fine here..

Making everything so that config files can be changed and reloaded
on the fly would IMO make things unnecessarily complicated, especially
if you also take plugins into account. This is not "normal operation",
and during testing or debugging it shouldn't be a problem to restart
VDR if you do feel the need to manually modify a config file.

Klaus


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