On 15.01.2008 09:35, Magnus Hörlin wrote: > I'm sorry for bothering you with a question that should possibly have been > sent to the mplayer mailing list. > Next week I'm going to Tenerife to relax by the pool, but I don't want to > miss any biathlon, alpine- or cross-country skiing transmissions, because > then I can't relax.... Therefore I have made a script that scans my video > dir for new recordings and starts encoding them to h264/AAC right away to a > bitrate of around 800kbps, which is what I can send from my server. Since I > will have internet access in my hotel room, I'm hoping to sit on the balcony > with my laptop and play the recordings using mplayer or xine while > downloading them. > One problem is that my vdr server is too slow to do it in real time and my > vdr client is too fast (AMD BE-2400), so when mencoder "catches up" with > real-time it exits instead of continuing until the vdr file is closed. > And the same goes for wget which I planned to use for downloading the files. > I guess there are many very simple ways to do this so I hope you don't mind > my wasting your time by asking here. > The obvious way would be to let vdr start encoding when the recording ends, > but I don't want to wait for that. There must be a better way. For the download-part the easiest(tm) way is to rate-limit the connection. wget --limit-rate scp -l rsync --bwlimit With a little head-start on the encoding and a matching limit a continous download shouldn't be a problem. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
