Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 10:52, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >>>>How to program a recording in VDR which have to run for more than 24 >>>>hours ? >>> >>>The maximum recording time is 23 hours and 59 minutes. >> >>Only when you don't touch the timer. :-) >> >> >>>You could program several overlapping timers. >> >>Or you can prolong the already running timer every few hours. >> >>But you can't extent a recording indefinetly because there is limit of 255 >>files into which VDR can record. But under normal circumstances there is at >>least enough capacity for recording several days. > > > So the file naming can go from 001.vdr to 255.vdr. What about 256.vdr to > 999.vdr ? > So - if you keep the default of 2GByte sized files - you are limited to about > 255 hours and a sum size of 512 GBytes. In the shops you find 500GByte > drives and when it comes to Raid arrays you can get more. > > Ok, usually (nearly) no one would go to record such lenghty sessions ... Exactly - and that's why I'm not going to change that (any time soon) ;-) Klaus
