Re: [vdr] Hard link cutter [was: Suggestion: High speed cutting]

2007-03-18 Thread Udo Richter
Richard Lithvall wrote: Why not just change the naming of video files to four, five or even eight digits? The real limit is that the file format and the VDR API uses byte sized integers to represent this. (cIndexFile::Get uses an uchar *FileNumber.) This could be extended, even with moderate

Re: [vdr] Hard link cutter [was: Suggestion: High speed cutting]

2007-03-17 Thread Richard Lithvall
Udo Richter wrote: This has been in my mind for over two years, and now I just wanted to see it working: Using hard file system links to speed up editing whenever a 00x.vdr file is copied from source to destination recording without modification. This has crossed my mind several times as

Re: [vdr] Hard link cutter [was: Suggestion: High speed cutting]

2007-03-17 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Richard Lithvall wrote: Why not just change the naming of video files to four, five or even eight digits? The problem is not the file name, it's the index file. An index entry stores the file number as uchar, which allows 256 recording files. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl