Lauri Tischler wrote: ...
http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2003/10-2003/msg00091.html How does that work, does VDR know the gendre of program and then put it into right subdirectory.Yes, in a way. I am using epg2timers to create almost all my timer entries. epg2timers can create a genre (= directory name) from match strings it finds in the tvtv.de-supplied genre and also from match strings it finds in the tvtv.de-supplied title. Of course, if you use other means to create the timer entry, that software (or person) would be responsible to enter the correct genre.Umm,, yes, so in real life it does not work. In real life VDR would just stuff everything into /video disregarding any other disks which have been linked to.
If "real life" is VDR's red "record" button: yes. IMHO, the two topics "multiple disks" and "structuring your VDR recording tree" are very closely related. If you only have one 40GB disk with 10-20 recordings on it, there really is no need to structure your VDR recording tree and the file names created by VDR's red "record" button are just fine. I like to have a choice of recordings, so I have 6 160 GB disks with 416 recordings on them and there would be no way in hell for me to find anything if I had not structured my recording tree. I even have additional levels such as /video/Comedy/Loriot or /video/SciFi/Star_Trek, etc. That's why VDR's red "record" button is not very useful to me and I rely on epg2timer's feature of automatically creating timer entries that put recordings into the right subdirectories. I guess it would not be very difficult to modify VDR so it would do the same thing for the timer entries the red "record" button creates. Carsten.