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[vdr] max lifetime and min lifetime for recordings
Hello,
As the most of you know, vdr has a "lifetime" setting for each timer,
that is the guaranteed time that the recording isn't deleted by vdr
after the recording event.
Personally, I would have another "max lifetime" function and now
I'm thinking generally about what is useful and what the most of the
vdr users could use:
1. "Min lifetime": That is the one that's implemented in vdr. It's the
amount of days that vdr won't delete the recording by itself.
If diskspace is running low, vdr deletes recordings who's min
lifetime is over. If it doesn't found such a recording, it doesn't
delete one. Then, vdr won't record a new video, I think.
The idea for this option (I think) is that vdr tries to keep as many
recordings as the harddisk can store (if the user doesn't delete
one). If diskspace is needed for a new recording, then an old one is
deleted. The option says, which one.
2. "Max lifetime": This isn't implemented yet, but I would like to have
it in vdr.
This option would mean that vdr kills a recording after this amount
of days - the free diskspace doesn't matter.
If I set a daily timer with max lifetime = 1 (e.g. Tagesschau),
I have exactly one such recording every time.
The idea and use case for this option (for me) is to have only one
Tagesschau at one time (or more generally, only COUNT recordings of
one type).
Without this option (now), my harddisk is big enough for several
Tagesschau-recordings and when I look at the recordings list, I have
"half the list full" of Tagesschau entries if I don't delete some
manually.
So now I'd like to know who of you find this second (max lifetime)
option useful just as me and if Klaus can implement it. I think, it
wouldn't be too difficult, that's not the point. The more interesting
thing is if it is useful enough for implementing it.
If I'm the only one in the world who uses this, I can make a simple
script "test-delete-recording RECDIR DAYS" thats started by cron
and tests how old a recording is and deletes it.
Bye, Uwe.
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