Carsten Koch wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > ... > >> The 'summary' field in timers.conf, if present, is used as the >> 'description' text in info.vdr when a recording is made (and overwrites >> whatever came from the related EPG data). > > > I wonder if it would be an improvement of that strategy > if VDR only took the summary from the timer entry if it > is not much shorter than the summary from the related EPG data. I don't think this would be a good idea, since there would always be cases where somebody would have preferred it the other way ;-) It's either there or not, and if it's there, it will be used. >> Personally I don't use that field in any way, so if we could agree on >> some >> delimiting character that separates 'description' from 'comment', as in >> >> ...:Description of what happens#some arbitrary comment >> >> where '#' would be that new delimiter. Everything before the delimiter >> would go into the 'description', and everything after it would simply >> be stored and otherwise ignored by VDR. > > > I would not like such a change unless you choose a character that > is guranteed not to occur in a tvtv.de summary. ;-) I won't be choosing that character, because I don't need that feature ;-) The VDR community will have to make a suggestion. > If you do make that change, please remind me to release a new version > of epg2timers that converts this character (if found in the tvtv.de > summary) into something else. You'll see this in VDR/HISTORY, should it ever happen. Klaus
