Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> Is there any movement to files >2GB for the recordings? > > I will most likely change this when going to TS recording format. > In doing so, I'd like to get rid of splitting recordings into separate > files altogether. However, I think there might be people who still > want this feature - any comments? Pretty much said already: I really don't want to miss hard link cutter any more, and I frequently use my (FAT32) USB-HDD as portable recording media. I've even considered offering the hard link cutter for VDR integration once the TS recording has settled. Going beyond 2TB however is a good idea in any case. > I won't go for full 64 bit file sizes, though, because I'd like > the index records to still fit into 8 byte. Using 6 byte for the > file index would result in 256 TB for a single recording (or 128 TB > if we avoid 'unsigned'), which I guess should be large enough ;-) I would prefer going the other direction, having more than 255.vdr files. Well, 8 bytes should be enough for everyone. ;) While we're at doing incompatible changes to the recording format: Two things bug me about the folder structure. First, the two-level directory structure. A single level makes IMHO more sense, and reduces the number of folders to scan by half: /video/folder/recordingname.YYYY-MM-DD.HH.MM.PP.LL.rec/ -or- /video/folder/YYYY-MM-DD.HH.MM.PP.LL.recordingname.rec/ Sure, the old way groups recordings of same name, but only if no episode title is used. And things get really confusing if a recording and a folder share the name. And if two recordings share a name, its a lot easier to rename just one of them. Second: Priority and Lifetime of a recording IMHO don't belong to the name part. This could easily fit into the info.vdr file instead. Or does it make sense to have the same recording with different lifetime or priority in separate folders? Well, just some of my thoughts. In the end, it has worked well in the past too... Cheers, Udo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
