Brian wrote: bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Hi, couldn't you record directly to a DVD-RAM mounted as UDF? That way the DVD would just be a 4.5GB sized removable disk, as such not playable in a standalone DVD player, but the data would not end up on your harddisk. You could convert to DVD video format at a later date.
DVD-VR/DVD+VR would be the disk-format for such a task http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DVD_VR.htm