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[vdr] Re: two VDR boxes
Hello,
> Why would you want to record the same thing twice?
> And even if you do, you probably do not want to record it
> into the same directory.
You may not _want_ to, but it might happen, e.g. due to a user not being
aware of a timer on the other machine.
> To answer your original question: It would indeed be
> needlessly complicated to (for example) change record file
> names from nnn.vdr and index.vdr to nnn.vdr-ID and
> index.vdr-ID where ID is a setup parameter, because VDR
> would have to create separate entries in the recordings menu
> for them.
I think, it would be sufficient to check whether a recording with a
certain name already exists and choose a different name for the
recording directory.
> Also, old VDR versions would not be able to recognize that.
These would probably just show the two recordings?
> The only thing that might really be needed, might be a
> locking mechanism that prevents vdr to record into a
> directory that is already being recorded into.
Which is probably even worse, because when a machine crashes it may not
be able to clean up a lock file properly.
Just my two cents,
Lars
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