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[vdr] Recording two programmes with identical details
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Tony Houghton
2012-03-31 13:07:24 UTC
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Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once
from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should
appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles
and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and
clash. Or is that what the last digit just before the .rec part of the
directory name is for? How would I be able to tell which is which in the
OSD etc? Would they be ordered by adapter number?
Klaus Schmidinger
2012-03-31 14:24:42 UTC
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Post by Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once
from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should
appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles
and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and
clash. Or is that what the last digit just before the .rec part of the
directory name is for?
The last number in a recording's directory name is the VDR instance (which
is 0 by default and can be used in case several VDR instances use the same
video directory). The second number from the right is the channel number.
This allows recording otherwise identical timers.
Post by Tony Houghton
How would I be able to tell which is which in the
OSD etc? Would they be ordered by adapter number?
I'm afraid there is no way to see this in the OSD.

Klaus
brian
2012-03-31 15:16:31 UTC
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Post by Klaus Schmidinger
Post by Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once
from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should
appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles
and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and
clash. Or is that what the last digit just before the .rec part of the
directory name is for?
The last number in a recording's directory name is the VDR instance (which
is 0 by default and can be used in case several VDR instances use the same
video directory). The second number from the right is the channel number.
This allows recording otherwise identical timers.
Post by Tony Houghton
How would I be able to tell which is which in the
OSD etc? Would they be ordered by adapter number?
I'm afraid there is no way to see this in the OSD.
Klaus
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I'm pretty sure that I have had identical recording names, just one was
visible in the OSD.
Deleted that one and, the other one automagically appeared in the OSD
after it was updated.

VDR worked perfectly.

Cheers Brian
Klaus Schmidinger
2012-03-31 16:18:27 UTC
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Post by Klaus Schmidinger
Post by Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once
from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should
appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles
and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and
clash. Or is that what the last digit just before the .rec part of the
directory name is for?
The last number in a recording's directory name is the VDR instance (which
is 0 by default and can be used in case several VDR instances use the same
video directory). The second number from the right is the channel number.
This allows recording otherwise identical timers.
Post by Tony Houghton
How would I be able to tell which is which in the
OSD etc? Would they be ordered by adapter number?
I'm afraid there is no way to see this in the OSD.
Klaus
I'm pretty sure that I have had identical recording names, just one was visible in the OSD.
Deleted that one and, the other one automagically appeared in the OSD after it was updated.
VDR worked perfectly.
Which version of VDR are you using?
The channel number as part of the recording directory name
was introduced in version 1.7.3.

Klaus
brian
2012-03-31 18:28:56 UTC
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Post by Klaus Schmidinger
Post by brian
Post by Klaus Schmidinger
Post by Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once
from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should
appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles
and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and
clash. Or is that what the last digit just before the .rec part of the
directory name is for?
The last number in a recording's directory name is the VDR instance (which
is 0 by default and can be used in case several VDR instances use the same
video directory). The second number from the right is the channel number.
This allows recording otherwise identical timers.
Post by Tony Houghton
How would I be able to tell which is which in the
OSD etc? Would they be ordered by adapter number?
I'm afraid there is no way to see this in the OSD.
Klaus
I'm pretty sure that I have had identical recording names, just one
was visible in the OSD.
Deleted that one and, the other one automagically appeared in the OSD
after it was updated.
VDR worked perfectly.
Which version of VDR are you using?
The channel number as part of the recording directory name
was introduced in version 1.7.3.
Klaus
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Hi,

currently on 1.6, moving to 1.7 + version using Gen2vdr V3.

Cheers

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