[vdr] Standalone cutting, again

[hm@seneca.muc.de]

Hi,

I had a look at vdrcutter2 and noad and thought this is nice to build
a _simple_ (read: Unix-like small building block) shell script wrapper
around it. While experimenting with vdrcutter2, I noticed that with
"-s", files are cut in a "strange" way, like:

linvdr:/video/Drama # l Im_Schatten_der_Macht/2003-10-23.20\:43.50.50.rec/
total 1683972
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          130 Jan  4 04:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           72 Jan  4 16:44 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     734017819 Oct 23 21:26 001.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     734073385 Oct 23 22:10 002.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     255047766 Oct 23 22:25 003.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1004 Jan  4 04:04 cur.logo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1223624 Oct 23 22:24 index.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           44 Jan  4 04:15 marks.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            4 Jan  4 13:11 resume.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          302 Oct 23 20:43 summary.vdr
linvdr:/video/Drama # l %Im_Schatten_der_Macht/2003-10-23.20\:43.50.50.rec/
total 1564888
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           66 Jan  4 19:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           39 Jan  4 19:02 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     1456742227 Jan  4 19:08 001.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     144539845 Jan  4 19:09 002.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1148352 Jan  4 19:09 index.vdr
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           44 Jan  4 19:09 marks.vdr

As you see, the created file 001.vdr is 1.4 GB large, which may not
be what you want. Sven, is there any way to stick to the settings in
setup.conf?  And summary.vdr isn't copied along. I also noticed the
target directory must be created first - vdrcutter2 doesn't do that.

I will now write a script that is able to find all new directories
(containing cur.logo - I am running noad from "vdr -r") and cut them
from cron at night, or when being manually invoked from the OSD. This
script will also check for available disk space before doing anything.

vdrcutter2 should return a usable exit code when (not) successful -
I can't see how it does that at the moment. Only then can we safely
remove the source directory (or even rename it to ".del"). Sven?

-- 
Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb:
	Never use your thumb for a rule.  You'll either hit it with a
hammer or get a splinter in it.


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