[vdr] Re: Feature request: Using different colours for timers

[Wolfgang Goeller <wgoeller@heraklit.ch>]

Ralf Klueber wrote:

> I missed severall recordings at the weekend because of a full disc. So I
> had an idea for an VDR enhancement. It would be great, if the lines in
> the timers menu are coloured (white, yellow, red) accourding to the
> available disc space for each timer.
When you start the OSD you see on screen the available hours.
But: How should VDR know, what you do with the recordings.
At the moment I have (for the next 4 weeks) about 300 hours
to record. I have not enough diskspace for all this records.
Should vdr refuse to accept the next timer-entry??
Beware! I create my DVDs and delete the recordings afterwards.
I think, it's in your responsibility.

> One open question is how the disc space should be calculated if
> recordings are overlapping on multiple card systems. 
Would be really complicated - just think of recordings done every
day / week. Depending on what other recordings are running, this
regular records might be on different cards each time. Now, say,
you enter a new timer this might change the recording for all cards.
Would be pretty colourful :-)

I think it's just like with any other recording-method:
It's up to you to decide how much fill fit on your tape and when
to change a tape. :-)

> What do you mean? Is that an enhancement which is worth to be
> implemented?
I fear it would be really complicated and not very helpful,
so in my opinion it seems to be rather useless.
If you want to monitor your diskspace:
A little shellscript can do this for you. It can even calculate
the timers-entry and warn you by email, if you run within
the next 48 hours out of diskspace.

regards
Wolfgang



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