On 04.01.2009 22:34, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 04.01.2009 19:21, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger a écrit : > >> Up to now VDR has used names like 001.vdr for its recording files. > >> While moving to Transport Stream as the recording format, I need to > >> use a different file name extension, and so was wondering which one > >> to use. My first idea was *.ts, for "Transport Stream", but when I > >> point, for instance, Konqueror to such a file, it thinks it is a > >> "Qt Translation Source". So I was wondering if I should use *.mpg > >> instead. This one is identified by Konqueror as an MPEG file and > >> will make it launch a proper player. > > > > I think the option is clearly defined now. > > I little thing that always annoyed me was that every recoding file had > > the .vdr extension, whatever the actual contents (it seemed like the > > file name was used as an extension). See: > > index.vdr > > info.vdr > > marks.vdr > > resume.vdr > > > > Maybe you will find an opportunity to improve this at the same time... > > Well, how about leaving the ".vdr" part away altogether? I'd suggest .dat for binary and .txt for text content. More or less another "container" question. :-) 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