[vdr] Re: Suggestion how to check overlapping timers ...

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've thought about a solution and I have a suggestion:
> 
> First, we have to store how many recordings can a done on the card
> for each DVB-card (e.g. int dvbNmaxrecord=8) and how many recordings
> are possible by the system (e.g. int systemmaxrecord=5) depending on
> it's performance (values can be set by OSD, btw. dvbNmaxrecord
> can be hardcoded for all DVB-card-types)
> 
> When a new timer-entry is created, VDR has to do the following checks:
> 
> 1st) Are there more timers at the same time than specified in "int
> systemmaxrecord"?
>         If yes, display "To much recordings at the same time! 
> scheduled"
>         and mark them for user interaction.
> 
> 2nd) Are there more transponders to be recorded than 
> DVB-cards available
>         (including ca.conf parameters)?
>         If yes, display "More transponders to be recorded 
> than DVB-cards
> available"
>         and mark the timer-entries depending on their transponders
>         (e.g. different colour-buttons for each transponder)
> 
> 3rd) Are there more recordings on a transponder than a DVB-card has
>         specified in it's "int dvbNmaxrecord="?
>         If yes assume using additional DVB-card repeating 2nd) step.
> 
> Did I forget any use cases?
> 
Sounds good, what we would need too is a "What Channels can be watched
live at the moment" (Menu|Button|whatever) and this depends on the
above...

Cu Ulrich