Hi guys,

Klaus wrote:

I've already dropped them. Besides, these files are just auxiliary internal files for VDR's very own purposes. There should normally be no need to edit them at

all.

I'm writing from work (webmail), so sorry if the email format gets fudged up.

I never really liked the "name all files .vdr" terminology. However, totally dropping them is an EQUALLY bad idea, since, unlike Linux, Windows programs depend on the extension for association. I would like to propose using the following:

Video / Audio container files: xyz.ts Index files: index.vdr Info files: info.txt Cutter marks: marks.dat Resume files: resume.vdr or resume.dat

Klaus says there is no need to edit them (not quite true ;o)), but I would like at least to be able to read them easily.

Here are my reasons for asking this:

xyz.ts: Sometimes it is nice to able to edit or even just watching them externally. With an extension that is common to all video editors or players, it makes it much easier.

index.vdr: Index contains no valuable info for external programs and it doesn't need editing, so we can leave this or even remove the extension all together.

Info.txt: The info file esp. is a good thing to have since you can simply copy the info on a Windows PC (for title or contents) when burn them to a CD or DVD. It saves time, just being able to copy and paste via keyboard. If I have to tell the program to "open with" and associate a programm EVERY time I burn a video file to DVD it becomes much too time consuming.

Marks.dat: To me it has happend a couple of times (esp if vdr runs out of disk space) that you are not able to jump forward or backward in a video file or even move the placed marks. Being able to edit the marks file or even deleting the preset times makes it easy to correct this problem. I can either place the marks where I need them (if known) or delete all of them if the video file is totally unresponsive.

Resume files: resume.vdr or resume.dat: I don't use this file, so to me it makes no difference what is done with the extension. However, for others, esp. multi-user VDR setups it might be handy to able to edit these (making the .vdr a better decision to be able to differiantiate it from the marks.dat file)

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any extension at all. If they are in a .rec-directory it should be pretty clear what a file named "index" contains.

Not quite sure who wrote this, but this argument isn't vaild, since external editors or programs have no knowledge of VDR's data structure or hierarchy. Naming (or just deleting ;o)) all the extensions the same doesn't change the situation.

kind regards, Reinhard