[vdr] Re: VPS

[Sean Carlos <seanc@libero.it>]

Tony Houghton wrote:

> How reliable is VPS on UK Freeview, and how does VDR deal with it? IME
> PDC (is that the same thing as VPS?) on my analogue VCR was useless
> because it would still never know if a programme was running late and
> miss the ending (for a programme not to start at least a minute behind
> schedule is incredibly rare on all UK channels).
>
> So what does VDR do as a fallback? I suppose the safest thing would be
> to start the recording early, just in case, then restart it if it
> detects a valid VPS code, then overrun by the customary 10 minutes if it
> doesn't receive another code at the end.
>
>  
Tony, check out the README.vps document in the VDR distribution. It 
explains how VDR manages VPS events. I have found it works as promised 
for the German channels; I don't have experience with Freeview.

Sean