[vdr] Re: "Bug" in cutting function of VDR

[Karsten Mueller <kmu@ratio.de>]

Matthias Raus wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> I hope you understand what I'm gonna try to explain to you now:
> Yesterday, I recorded a movie, it is about 1 hour and 30 min long. My 
> intention is now to burn this movie on 2 SVCDs. With the cutting 
> functions of VDR, I cut the first 45 min out of the film and got a 
> separate file in the OSD with % as prefix. Now, I cut the second 45 min 
> out of the film, thinking VDR would write them into a different file. 
> Instead, the first file was deleted and the second one stored under the 
> same name, which is not very practical if you want to cut a recording 
> into several pieces. Did I do s.th. wrong, or is there any intention 
> behind this?
> 
> Hope you comprehend my "newbie"-language
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
Although I'm not Klaus, I'll try to help ;)


Try setting  MENU -> Setup -> Recording -> Miscellaneous ->
"Split edited files" to "yes".

Then cut the movie (cut *both* parts) at once

I think this is what you want...


Have fun

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Karsten Mueller
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