[vdr] Re: max lifetime and min lifetime for recordings

[Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:55:23PM +0100, Uwe Freese wrote:
> 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.

I think a function like "keep max COUNT number of recordings" is much better.
For your "tagesschau" you set it to 1 (you get it daily). For other broadcasts
like "Nano" - this is brodcasted from Mo-Fr - you can use 1 too. 
With your "lifetime" feature I had to set the lifetime to 3 and I have 
sometimes 3 recordings on disk, sometimes 2 or 1.

        Matthias