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[vdr] Re: Subdirs and Subtitle - another implementation suggestion
Hello Klaus,
Klaus Schmidinger wrote on Sunday, February 03, 2002, 11:47:36 AM:
KS> So, since using this feature is most likely always going to be in the context
KS> of a series with individual episodes, I guess I'm going to use the two keywords
KS> TITLE for the title of the series
KS> EPISODE for the name of the current episode
KS> and replace these with the actual data at the time of recording in the "File"
KS> parameter of the timer. This will even allo a timer file like
KS> TITLE~EPISODE
KS> which will name this to whatever the tv station broadcasts at the time.
KS> If no EPG data is available at the time of recording, TITLE will default
KS> to the station name (with or without the preceeding '@', depending on the
KS> individual setup) and EPISODE will default to "_" (actually a 'blank' character),
KS> which is what it does already in case of a periodic timer.
KS> Any objections to this?
The keywords seem to be ok, I don't know a better one.
A negative thing when using the TITLE keyword is that I cannot see in
timers.conf for what I set that timer. What does
1:5:-D-----:2155:0020:99:99:TITLE:
mean to me when I look into the timers.conf? The problem is that I
can't set a Timer with a name "x" (so that I can see what the timer is
for) and use the TITLE macro for the name of the recording dir.
But I cannot really think about a situation when I use the TITLE keyword
at all..
Only the instant recording with TITLE~EPISODE seems to be useful!
Some other things about instant recordings names:
- an instant recording should be named "TITLE - EPISODE" and not
"TITLE~EPISODE" because in 99% there will never be another recording
with that name (one had set a repeating timer if a series is
important). Without the subdir, one can quickly replay the recording
without the additional move into the subdir.
- an instant recording should be named with @ if option enabled (mark
instant recordings)
- a better episode name if no EPG data is available could be "NOEPG" or
the title of the timer if not using TITLE macro, that means:
when I have a timer
1:5:-D-----:2155:0020:99:99:Ally McBeal~EPISODE:
and no EPG info is available, VDR could record to
Ally McBeal/Ally McBeal
BTW: How long is VDR searching for EPG data? I think some recordings
here were named with xxx/_ because the time is too short (yes, I'm sure I can
set the time somewhere in the source). Do you mean that an option "EPG
searching time" (in sec) can be useful?
Bye, Uwe.
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