[vdr] Re: vdr-1.1.15 still don't record second apid ;-(

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Dennis Noordsij wrote:
> 
> > I really wonder how that's supposed to work...
> > (see my previous posting). What would you want to record if there is no
> > data available??
> 
> >From what I understand, when the recording starts (a few minutes before the
> actual start of the program) there is no data yet, the second apid does not
> kick in until the real program starts. The second apid is not used for the
> the commercials (i.e. when vdr starts the recording process), but is
> activated only when the real program starts.
> 
> The "desired" functionality would be to read from the second apid, even if
> there is no data,

If there is no data, there's nothing to record!

> and then when the data starts to arrive (when the real
> program starts - assuming this is how the drivers work) to start recording it
> in a way that during replay VDR "knows" when the second apid becomes valid.

The second APID is not "valid" or "invalid". There is either data or not.

> Similarly, when the movie ends the second apid may no longer contain any data,
> even though VDR will still record the channel for a few minutes more.

If the second APID doesn't deliver any more data, there's nothing VDR will
record from it.

Klaus
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