Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... > Are you sure this file was actually created by VDR itself? Yes, 100%. It was created by vdr using a timers.conf entry created by epg2timers, though. I have several old recordings with summary files like this that hang vdr. > The expected syntax of a summary.vdr file is > > Single line title > <empty line> > Single line short text > <empty line> > Description > may consist > of several lines > > In your case there is no empty line between the title and "D 1998", > which makes the longish description the "Short text" - and that leads to > irritations. > > Simply insert a blank line after the title and it works (at least it > does here). OK. I guess I should go though all my summary.vdr files then and check whether the second and fourth line is blank. Of course my point is that VDR should never hang when reading a file that it has created itself. Would you like me to create a patch this weekend that fixes this? Carsten.
