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

2007-03-18 Thread Udo Richter
Matthias Schwarzott wrote: Another thing that comes to my mind, but is sure hard to implement: If I do two or more simultanous recordings from the same channel, why couldn't VDR record this to the same file, and hardlink it to both directories. That would reduce the need to create one long reco

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]

2007-03-18 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Sonntag, 18. März 2007, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > 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 25

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

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 well

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

2007-03-17 Thread Udo Richter
Udo Richter wrote: I've been thinking about video cutting strategies, and I think its possible to speed up the cutting process noticeable, with some modifications to VDR. Hi list, I just had to do this in self-reply. ;) For reference, this is my 'original' post: http://linvdr.org/mailinglists