On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:09, Andreas Brugger wrote: > Hi list! > > I've a problem to check which recording is currently replayed in VDR. I > know, that there is a the function 'cStatus::Replaying()', which > delivers the 'Name' of the recording, but unfortunatly this is only a > short version and not the full FileName. So there is no (secure) way to > check which of several recordings which have the same name is actually > replayed. > I tried to use 'cReplayControl::LastReplayed()' but I have some problems > with that and Klaus told me that this is a bad idea to call it out of a > thread. So he considers changing the API of 'cStatus::Replaying()' and > 'cStatus::Recording()' so it returns the full FileName (Name incl. the > path to the recording) instead of the Name. He told me that I should ask > the list if anybody would have a problem with that (plugins, scripts and > so on) ... so here it is ... what do you all think about that? Any > concerns? No problem in general but if this is worked on, maybe we should think of defining a name scheme for all kinds of replays and to have these interfaces return those names, too. Currently, there are large problems wanting to identify where a replay comes from, especially if the replay doesn't have a filename in that sense. I could imagine that a DVD replay announces itself as "dvd://1", so we could use common URI naming schemes instead of defining one ourselves for things other as normal files. Example application: An extension to the trayopen plugin shall open the tray when the drive's button is pressed. Unfortunately, for this to happen, a replay from that drive must be stopped and the disk must be unmounted prior to ejecting. On the other hand, a replay from any other source must continue. Currently, this is hardly to implement reliably. Greetings, Sascha
