I've seen this touched upon earlier but it looks like nobody found the cause. The reason why freevo cannot record to a fat32 (vfat) partition is that it uses illegal characters in the filename when creating a recorded TV show - the colon (:) character is not allowed on a FAT32 filesystem.

At the moment I've written an external record command which amongst other things replaces the colon(s) with underscore(s), and this allows me to record to a vfat partition. Unfortunately, freevos database of recorded shows still refers to the original filename, and this has the inconvenient effect that all recorded shows are listed twice, once by name and description and once by filename, and of course only the latter actually works since the former filename is nonexistent.

I haven't looked very hard at the relevant portions of freevo (my python skills are at pidgin level) but I have a nasty suspicion that the HH:MM:SS format may be there for a good reason and that changing it may break things, but for what its worth it would be great if someone would consider a workaround - I'm sure there are lots of people using shared partitions or filesystems mounted from windows hosts who may benefit from such a fix. If I were more familiar with the code I'd at least do an honest attempt at fixing it myself, and may still do so, but it may not happen soon... :)

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Ole



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