Volker Schierz wrote: > Hi! > > I think there will be no problems on single disk systems cause of they > have enough speed, but I found a Problem with external NFS-Devices. > Beside my internal video-device I'm using one harddisk for Music, one > for all of my Image's and an additional > Device for VDR-Recordings. > Cause of the slower network-access the initial scanning for recordings > and empty directories, VDR > is scanning all that Sound and Image-Stuff for several minutes. If I > include my 4 GB cddb-archiv, it is about 20 minutes. > > Therefor I changed the code of ScanVideoDir with a simple extension. It > now looks first wether a file ".vdrexclude" Exists. If so it skips the > entire directory-tree. This makes it easy to exclude a subdirectory tree > by simply touching ".vdrexclude" in a directory that will not contain > VDR-Recordings. Well, actually there shouldn't be any non-VDR files in the video directory. Plus, since version 1.3.38 all disk access regarding recordings is done in a separate thread. Klaus
