Carsten Koch wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ...
The 'summary' field in timers.conf, if present, is used as the 'description' text in info.vdr when a recording is made (and overwrites whatever came from the related EPG data).
I wonder if it would be an improvement of that strategy if VDR only took the summary from the timer entry if it is not much shorter than the summary from the related EPG data.
I don't think this would be a good idea, since there would always be cases where somebody would have preferred it the other way ;-) It's either there or not, and if it's there, it will be used.
Personally I don't use that field in any way, so if we could agree on some delimiting character that separates 'description' from 'comment', as in
...:Description of what happens#some arbitrary comment
where '#' would be that new delimiter. Everything before the delimiter would go into the 'description', and everything after it would simply be stored and otherwise ignored by VDR.
I would not like such a change unless you choose a character that is guranteed not to occur in a tvtv.de summary. ;-)
I won't be choosing that character, because I don't need that feature ;-) The VDR community will have to make a suggestion.
If you do make that change, please remind me to release a new version of epg2timers that converts this character (if found in the tvtv.de summary) into something else.
You'll see this in VDR/HISTORY, should it ever happen.
Klaus