Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Manuel Reimer
Udo Richter wrote: My suggestion: Allow to keep the default CACHEDIR and RESDIR un-set (empty), and if --cachedir or --resdir is not present, default to whatever --video and --config is actually set to. That way, the package builder can decide whether to set CACHEDIR and RESDIR or not, and if

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Manuel Reimer
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Note, though, that after version 2.0 this multiple disk handling will be deprecated and later dropped. So I suggest in a template it should be /srv/vdr/video, without the '0' at the end. In my opinion, this way a great feature of VDR would be lost. There is *no*

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Manuel Reimer
Steffen Barszus wrote: vdr has 2 types of conf files - 1) internal databases - like channels.conf, setup.conf 2) real conf files like scr.conf, diseqc.conf etc 1 should be in /var/lib/vdr 2 should be in /etc/vdr/ I don't think so. VDR has two types of conf files, but they are: - Files that

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 08.04.2012 09:51, Manuel Reimer wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Note, though, that after version 2.0 this multiple disk handling will be deprecated and later dropped. So I suggest in a template it should be /srv/vdr/video, without the '0' at the end. In my opinion, this way a great feature

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Manuel Reimer
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: This method may have been useful in the old days where large harddisks were unavailable or hard to come by. Now we're living in the age of terabyte disks, and setting up a VDR with 1TB of video storage (even using a second disk to have a RAID-1 for data safety) os no

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Gero
On Sunday 08 April 2012 - 09:54:52, Manuel Reimer wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: vdr has 2 types of conf files - 1) internal databases - like channels.conf, setup.conf 2) real conf files like scr.conf, diseqc.conf etc I don't think so. VDR has two types of conf files, but they are: -

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Gero
On Sunday 08 April 2012 - 11:36:18, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.04.2012 09:51, Manuel Reimer wrote: In my opinion, this way a great feature of VDR would be lost. This method may have been useful in the old days where large harddisks were unavailable or hard to come by. Now we're

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:54:21 +0200 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: This method may have been useful in the old days where large harddisks were unavailable or hard to come by. Now we're living in the age of terabyte disks, and setting up a VDR with 1TB of

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 08.04.2012 12:45, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:54:21 +0200 Manuel Reimermanuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: This method may have been useful in the old days where large harddisks were unavailable or hard to come by. Now we're living in the age of terabyte

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Manuel Reimer
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Try mhddfs Now that sounds like a very good alternative! I'd say this puts the final nail into this VDR feature's coffin ;-) ACK. Revoking my vote for the old feature. I hope that mhddfs is well maintained. Seems to be a pretty good alternative. Still a bit work to

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Christopher Reimer
2012/4/8 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de ACK from me, but without the last additions by Christopher (more complex handling of directory paths based on whether the new parameters to VDR are given). Yes, I also think it's better to not use these additions. It's complex and I don't see any

[vdr] Bug in pat.c (VDR 1.7.27) - possible fix attached

2012-04-08 Thread Patrick Boettcher
Hi, I located a small bug which has been introduced in 1.7.18 (at least I think so). Reading the Changes file I could not determine which change caused it, but the problem is the following. In pat.c: if the PMT of a service has a stream of stream-type 128 (0x80) the vpid is overridden with

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.04.2012 09:48, schrieb Manuel Reimer: It is difficult to read your description (and no, I didn't understand it). How would you want to document this in a way, someone actually understands it? I guess I have to find a way to be more clear... Ok, second attempt: - Makefile does not set

Re: [vdr] OT: video dir symlink [WAS:Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.]

2012-04-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.04.2012 11:36, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: At any rate, I want to get rid of that symlink stuff and allow VDR to see only one big video directory. Sorry for being OT, just wanted to extend my thought of the last post-2.0-offtopic discussion: Modularize. Defining an interface for 'video

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Christopher Reimer
2012/4/8 Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de - If CACHEDIR or RESDIR is not set (empty string), fall back to whatever --video and --config is set to. No, CACHEDIR and RESDIR should work in the same behaviour as CONFDIR or VIDEODIR. This sounds a bit like you set all your directories by command

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Christopher Reimer c.reimer1...@googlemail.com wrote: - If CACHEDIR or RESDIR is not set (empty string), fall back to whatever --video and --config is set to. No, CACHEDIR and RESDIR should work in the same behaviour as CONFDIR or VIDEODIR. This sounds a bit

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Christopher Reimer
2012/4/8 VDR User user@gmail.com I know several people who set their directories on the command line and ignore maintaining Make.config completely so it's not true everyone uses Make.config. OK, that could be possible, although I don't understand why. Let's wait what Klaus says.

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Christopher Reimer c.reimer1...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/4/8 VDR User user@gmail.com I know several people who set their directories on the command line and ignore maintaining Make.config completely so it's not true everyone uses Make.config. OK, that