> For playbackability with VDR in the 'simplest' case you only need to fix > the file-number in the index.vdr-file and append that onto the first > recording and move the XXX.VDR-files with the fixed name into the first > recording dir. > > But that way the overlapp would still be there. > > So you needed a program that finds the exact frame where the first > recording stopped. Then finds the exact same frame in the next recording > and then copies the portion of 001.vdr from the next-recording and appends > and fixes the content of the index.vdr beginning after the frame you A bit simpler: 1. Move all the nnn.vdr files into new directories, renumbering them in the right order and make sure that each possible overlap is actually in one dir. E.g. if you have 1/001-1/005, 2/001-2/255, 3/001-3/023 you could reorder this as x1/001-x1/004 (from 1/001-1/004) x2/001-x2/099 (from 1/005, 2/001-2/098) x3/001-x3/178 (from 2/100-2/255, 3/001-3/023) (You can completely disregard index and other files.) 2. Run genindex in each of the new dirs. 3. Fix the cut-points. This is left as the only programming exercise, but supposedly noad can do this already (-o flag). 4. Run vdrsync --cut or whatever. I'm doing this routinely (by hand, don't ask me for a script :-) to join multi-part episodes of certain shows. Here the first step is trivial as most recordings consist only of 2 or 3 nnn.vdr files and for the third step I need noad anyway. Olaf
