Hi list,

I usually record with lots of margin before and after. I also cut everything after detecting commercial breaks. This however has two small side effects. First, the start margin time will be taken for the recording name, so its a bit off, like 20:55 instead of 21:00. Second, after cutting, its not possible to see the actual start time of the recording any more. (This is sometimes useful to know to adjust the margins of repeated timers.)

Recently I had the idea, when cutting why not shift the recording start time to the time of the beginning cut mark? This would even have another positive side effect: That way its easy to cut a recording into two parts, because they would have different start times.

Well, why not, so today I tried and the result is attached as patch. Unfortunately, a small API change is necessary, so plugins should be re-compiled. I don't expect this to go into VDR soon, but maybe when development cycle starts again.

Cheers,

Udo

--- vdr-1.4.0-orig/recording.h 2006-05-14 17:04:48.000000000 +0200 +++ vdr-1.4.0/recording.h 2006-05-14 17:46:17.853979160 +0200 @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ const char *FileName(void) const; const char *Title(char Delimiter = ' ', bool NewIndicator = false, int Level = -1) const; const cRecordingInfo *Info(void) const { return info; } + void SetStartTime(time_t Start); const char *PrefixFileName(char Prefix); int HierarchyLevels(void) const; void ResetResume(void) const; --- vdr-1.4.0-orig/recording.c 2006-05-14 17:04:48.000000000 +0200 +++ vdr-1.4.0/recording.c 2006-05-14 18:07:17.903778608 +0200 @@ -754,6 +754,15 @@ return titleBuffer; }

+void cRecording::SetStartTime(time_t Start) +{ + start=Start; + if (fileName) { + free(fileName); + fileName = NULL; + } +} + const char *cRecording::PrefixFileName(char Prefix) { cString p = PrefixVideoFileName(FileName(), Prefix); --- vdr-1.4.0-orig/cutter.c 2006-02-12 11:07:23.000000000 +0100 +++ vdr-1.4.0/cutter.c 2006-05-14 18:13:04.591550216 +0200 @@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ error = false; ended = false; cRecording Recording(FileName); + + cMarks FromMarks; + FromMarks.Load(FileName); + cMark *First=FromMarks.First(); + if (First) Recording.SetStartTime(Recording.start+((First->position/FRAMESPERSEC+30)/60)*60); + const char *evn = Recording.PrefixFileName('%'); if (evn && RemoveVideoFile(evn) && MakeDirs(evn, true)) { // XXX this can be removed once RenameVideoFile() follows symlinks (see videodir.c)