Olaf Titz wrote: > In article <43538A06.3060007@xxxxxxxxx> you write: > >>I waas wondering if it is possible to demux/remux vdr to burn direct to >>dvd, while recording. I would like to see if that is possible, that when >>setting up a recording in the event of limited harddrive space I could >>record a show direct to dvd, without having to delete anything first. > > > AFAIK this is not possible, since creating DVDs is a multi-pass > operation - you need the complete VOBs to create the indexes and you > need the complete VOBs and various index files to create the ISO > image. I highly doubt it is even theoretically possible to do this on > the fly; at least the ISO disk format is too limited. > > Olaf > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > Hi, couldn't you record directly to a DVD-RAM mounted as UDF? That way the DVD would just be a 4.5GB sized removable disk, as such not playable in a standalone DVD player, but the data would not end up on your harddisk. You could convert to DVD video format at a later date. Cheers Brian
