[vdr] Recordings > 24 hours

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Petric Frank wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> maybe a stupid question ...
>>
>> How to program a recording in VDR which have to run for more than 24
>> hours ?
> 
> 
> The maximum recording time is 23 hours and 59 minutes.

Only when you don't touch the timer. :-)

> You could program several overlapping timers.

Or you can prolong the already running timer every few hours.

But you can't extent a recording indefinetly because there is limit of 255
files into which VDR can record. But under normal circumstances there is at
least enough capacity for recording several days.





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