[vdr] Re: problem with samba share.cannot see the *.vdr files

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

Gunnar Roth wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gunnar,
> >
> > Why would you want to use filenames with the column in them if you have
> > just recompiled VDR to use dots instead of columns (the VFAT option)?
> > Wasn't the whole point of this exercise to enable you to see the VDR
> > recordings from a windows box as samba shares? IMHO you should just rename
> > your old recordings to get rid of the column and be happy with that;
> > you'll see the recordings from your windows machine and the VFAT enabled
> > VDR recognizes them.  No need to patch VDR in anyway. A simple shell
> > script/command will do the job:
> 
> well you are right. but i dont want to copy all file to my windows machine.
> i was just thinking vdr should be smart enough to recognized its recording
> whether VFAT is used or not.
> and i also thought to enable this couldnt be so hard. my doing was just a
> proof of concept *g*
> thank you for your script. it worked after adding a -follow to the find
> command.
> 
> by the way i have found that vdr doenst handle a forbidden characters of
> VFAT only the ":", but what is about the "?" and the "* ". i in fact have a
> recording where the title contains a question mark and its also not readable
> from my windows machine.
> 
> gunnar

You can add these characters to the CharExchange[] array in VDR/recording.c
(between the #ifdef VFAT ... #endif), like

#ifdef VFAT
  { ':',  '\x03' },
  { '?',  '\x04' },
  { '*',  '\x05' },
#endif

Let me know if this works for you, and I'll add it to the next release.

Klaus (longing for the day when Windoze will be obsolete... ;-)
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