Carsten Koch wrote: > 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. Aha, so epg2timers is the culprit ;-) > 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? Very well. And don't forget to adjust summary2info.pl as well. Klaus
