Husterer, Thomas RD-CP1 wrote: >Hi, > >I use vdr to view the ?tagesschau? some time delayed every day. >This leads to a collection of many recordings of this program >but I am only interested in viewing the last one. >Therefore I wished that old recordings disappear after some >days to retain my overview and to increase my operating comfort. >I thought that the parameter ?lifetime? would be a solution for >this problem, but this parameter is only a very soft hint to the >vdr to kill some programs if it needs the disk space. >To fullfill my requirements I modified vdr in that way that it >kills programs after expiry of the given lifetime without >any ifs and buts. >The only condition is that the given lifetime lies below some >limit (like 10 days). >I added a new setup parameter ?hard-lifetime-limit? which lets >you control this limit. >By default this parameter is zero and the vdr behaves like >before. >If you increase this value then any lifeteme which lies below >this limit is treated as a hard lifetime limit and programs are >killed in the described manner. > >Is anybody interested in this patch? > > I think you should publish the patch anyway, and yes sounds interesting, with today harddisk space it make the recordings menu more comfortable. In combination with a default hard lifetime of one day for pause live tv even more interesting. then i would not need to care about such recordings and they would just disappear apperantly :D I don't know if this is easily possible. Regards Steffen
