[vdr] Re: Feature Request: record the whole movie in timeshiftmode

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

Ari Huttunen wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > Barbini Uberto wrote:
> >
> >>>it would be an useful feature to record until the end of the movie in
> >>>timeshift mode. This is the expected behaviour, and I was
> >>>surprised that
> >>>the recording had stopped 10 minutes before the end of the movie ;-)
> >>>Yes, I know, I told VDR to do so and record only 120 minutes in this
> >>>mode.
> >>
> >>IMNSOHO it'd be possible to change the duration of immediate registrations,
> >>for example if I repush red on a currently recording channel, it might
> >>rotate among some values, like 30-60-90-120-180-240 starting with the
> >>default (120).
> >
> >
> > You could also just as well go into the Timers menü and edit the stop
> > time of that timer.
> 
> I wonder.. Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression that in DVB
> the programs have a PID, and that it would be separate for different
> programs? I've about no knowledge of the DVB spec, but if that would be
> so, VDR could just wait for the program to end?
> 
> BTW, I don't see why record-this-channel-now functionality should have
> any timer.

The recording facilities are implemented based on timers.
I don't think it would be a good idea to implement an additional
facility just for timeshift.

> I'd intuitively expect it to just continue recording until
> I tell it to stop or it runs out of disk space. Usually programs that
> try to be too smart end up being annoying.

So if you forget to stop it, you would gadly accept that other timers
might fail because the disk is full? I bet you would think differently
if that happened to you... ;-)

Klaus


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