[vdr] Re: Display scanning while access recordings

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:58:32 +0100, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>
wrote:

> My Problem: I have a P133 with 4x80 GB HDD(Full), if a access the
> recordings it will take a very long time that vdr display the
> recordings.(i am not sure is the button is pressed or not)
> 
> So it whould be a very nice feature, if a go into recordings and vdr
> writes on the OSD something like scanning...
> 
> Or if i watch a recorded film and press back, it would also display
> scanning...
> 
> Have anyone a tip for me?

Why not improving the speed of the search by changing FINDCMD in
recording.c?

Change the corresponding lines and it will be much faster.

> #define FINDCMD      "ls -d %s/*/%s %s/*/*/%s 2> /dev/null"

>  asprintf(&cmd, FINDCMD, VideoDirectory, Deleted ? "*" DELEXT : "*" RECEXT,
>                          VideoDirectory, Deleted ? "*" DELEXT : "*" RECEXT);

Emil