On 05.09.2010 12:54, Teemu Suikki wrote:
I know this is probably too much to ask at this moment when there just has been a transition to TS.. Anyway, here it goes. :)
I often compress my older recordings to Divx, to save space. However I never remember to watch them because they don't show up in VDR recordings anymore. :) I know I can watch them with the Mplayer plugin, but it's not convenient, especially if you are recording some series and half of the episodes are divx and half VDR..
So basicly I would like to be able to compress vdr recording to divx, but still view it like normal VDR recording. It would be quite enough to simply launch mplayer-plugin for the file if divx format is detected? Editing etc is not necessary at all.
This is probably something I can do myself, but I just thought I ask in case someone else has already done something similar. :)
there ist a archive patch for vdr that will link a archive dvd into recordings and there is a media detection plugin (for dvd, audio cd, ...) it could be possible to look for divx, gather informations and build representations of that divx into recordings directory and if a divx recording is selected it will have to recognize that and branch to the proper replay plugin - but that's all very dirty and complicated, maybe its easier to write a plugin that gathers all information about recordings, divx, dvd-images, ... and put that into a small database and instead of opening the recordings function open this plugin (like open epg search instead of the normal epg function of vdr) and select a "media entry" (recording, divx, ...) and the plugin will handle what happens next (normal recording or mplayer, ...) xxv does have a db function for recordings, maybe its possible to use that as base? there is a media library function, maybe already something in that direction, a kind of front end vdr-plugin (graphics representation because xxv is made for use with browser) for that medialib function could do the magic? xxv itself can also be extended by modules http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Xxv
or just use the filebrowser plugin? thats the way reel multimedia solved it with the ReelBox Avantgard (vdr based) http://vdr.nasenbaeren.net/filebrowser/