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vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org wrote:
Me too, i program all my timers via skript from a website and i use the summaries to create the menues (and text) for the DVD-Menues. I also add episodenumbers to keep everything in order. So this change might have a big impact because i let the timers be programmed and change via vdradmin the summaries and titles, so i8'm finished after cutting. I don't want to change this. So if this change is what i think, than my automatic programming of timers will not work correctly and my vdrconvert scripts will create ugly dvds... :(
Well, nobody keeps you from storing anything you like in the 'aux' field of a timer. You'll find that string again in the resulting info.vdr file - it will just have a different tag character. The only change for you will be that VDR doesn't treat this data as a "description" any more. Regarding your DVD processing script I would assume that the only change you'd have to make is replacing a 'D' with an '@' somewhere.
Okay, that with the tag is no problem, but editing the summary before the recording e.g. with vdradmin and then don't find this "description" in vdr after the recording , seems strange to me (i see the advantage to have the epg-description of the recording, but what happens if you record two movies in one recording or overlap a quarter hour to be sure to have the end recorded - than you only have the last EPG-description?), why not use one of the remaining color-buttons if you open the info of recording (afaik there only red and green in use) ?
VDRAdmin can (still) change it as VDRAdmin changes via SVDR and only the (nowhere seen) NAME of the field is changed.
The field will still be the last field of a timer-line, so NEWT/MODT will work the same as before.
Regarding your last worry. I said to Klaus (before this discussion in a private mail) that he maybe should drop the "one timer, one EPG-Event"-paradigma for the info.vdr and place all EPG-Events that are (say) at least 90% overlapped with the timer. OK. That way it would be easy to catch news or any other "few minutes" things, when you use large enough margins, but i guess that would still be better than catching the wrong EPG-Event and be scewed. :-)
Bis denn