[vdr] Re: VDR Feature ideas

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

> 1) Rotating Recordings
> ======================
> 
> Reserve a limited set of recordings for repeating timers (e.g.
> "Tagesthemen" or "Sandmännchen"). For example, i want to have the 3
> latest transmissions of Sandmännchen (for rainy days) and the last two
> Tagesthemen. The Rotating Recording feature would throw away (in FIFO
> manner) old recordings and keep only the specified number and the latest
> recordings.

I don't think something like this should be build into VDR. A small
script is enough for realizing this. (It simply deletes all, except the
$MAXCOUNT oldest, recordings in the "RECORDING" Subdir)

-- delold.sh --
#!/bin/sh
BASEDIR="/video/video0"
RECORDING="Tagesthemen"
MAXCOUNT=2
cd "$BASEDIR/$RECORDING" || exit 1
count=`ls | wc -l`
if [ $count > $MAXCOUNT ]; then
  let todel=count-MAXCOUNT+1;
  dirtodel=`ls | head -n $todel`
  rm -rf $dirtodel
fi
-- End --

Correct the Dirs, set the count (Copy the block any number of times for
other subdirs). Run it via "commands" (Maybe you need "echo Someting" to
make VDR happy, don't know since i don't use commands in VDR) or via
cron. And you're set.

Btw. You ment "Ring"(-Buffer) and not FIFO.

Klaus: Maybe this is something for the contrib dir/package.






Bis denn

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