[vdr] [feature request] recording length computation and storage

Hi !

After having seen that there are several plug-ins computing the recording length on their own and that being a very expensive task (in respect of io and cpu) and also the same implementation needs to be copied over and over again, i would like to request, that vdr is storing the length of a recording and make it accessible to the plug-ins. I would imagine, that some logic to store it in the info file after/while generating/writing the index would be a good way.

Plug-ins which possibly could make use of that are: * live * extrecmenu * restfulapi

I'm sure there are more of it.

Has someone allready thought of this ? Are there any plans to have that or someone allready using a patch for this ?

Thanks !

Steffen