Chris Warren wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx >>[mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Udo Richter >> >>No easy way to catch that, I agree. But a bi-weekly timer should be >>simple. After recording is done, check for bi-weekly flag, and in that >>case set a start date 14 days later. Maybe I'll give it a try and >>develop a patch. >> > > > If you were to write a patch, how about supporting the crontab format for > timers? This is pretty standard, very flexible and I'm sure there's code out > there which could be reused. > > i.e. > > Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Data > > Where each field can have either a number specifying what to match, an > asterisk to match any, a comma seperated list of matched values, a range > (1-3) or repeating ranges (e.g. */5 for every 5 minutes.) > > An example could be: > Record at 1pm every Monday and Wednesday of Jan and Feb: > 0 13 * 1-2 mon,wed 1:C-61472-7-1204:etc.... > > Chris Just to save you some work: don't expect this to go into the main VDR source ;-) Klaus
