On 05.01.2009 11:01, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 05.01.2009 00:34, Malte Schröder wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:34:17 +0100 >> Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de> wrote: >> >>>> 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 would vote for that. Having .ts for the recording has the nice >> effect that media-players and who knows what can just handle the >> recordings. The other files I would consider VDR private data which >> is not standardized like TS. So I do not see a point in them having >> any extension at all. If they are in a .rec-directory it should be >> pretty clear what a file named "index" contains. > > I also strongly tend to drop the '.vdr' extensions and have the files > just named plain "index", "info", "marks" and "resume".
dropping the extensions is bad for windows users, since files without extension cannot be assigned to a specific application (like notepad). so i vote for the suggestion of Matthias Schniedermeyer: .dat for binary (e.g. index.dat) .txt for text content (e.g. info.txt) Greets Andreas _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
