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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
A "channel definition" is a line with channel data, where the fields
are separated by ':' characters:
- Example: "RTL:12188:h:1:27500:163:104:0:0:12003"
+ Example: "RTL:12188:h:1:27500:163:104:105:0:12003"
The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left
to right):
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
- Diseqc number **
- Symbol rate
- Video PID
- - Audio PID
+ - Audio PID (either one number, or two, separated by a comma)
+ If this channel also carries Dolby Digital sound, the Dolby PIDs follow
+ the audio PIDs, separated by a semicolon, as in "...:101,102;103,104:..."
- Teletext PID
- Conditional Access (0 = Free To Air, 1 = can be decrypted by the first
DVB card, 2 = can be decrypted by the second DVB card)
@@ -60,8 +62,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
(1..31)
- Start time (first two digits for the hour, second two digits for the minutes)
- End time (first two digits for the hour, second two digits for the minutes)
- - Priority (from 00 to 99, 00 = lowest prioity, 99 = highest priority)
- - Guaranteed lifetime of recording (in days)
+ - Priority (from 0 to 99, 0 = lowest prioity, 99 = highest priority)
+ - Guaranteed lifetime of recording (in days); 0 means that this recording may
+ be automatically deleted by a new recording with higher priority, 99 means
+ that this recording will never be automatically deleted
- Name of timer (will be used to name the recording); if the name contains
any ':' characters, these have to be replaced with '|'
- Summary (any newline characters in the summary have to be replaced with '|';
@@ -126,3 +130,13 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
- marks must have a frame number, and that frame MUST be an I-frame (this
means that only marks generated by VDR itself can be used, since they
will always be guaranteed to mark I-frames).
+
+* 001.vdr ... 255.vdr
+
+ These are the actual recorded MPEG data files. In order to keep the size of
+ an individual file below a given limit, a recording is split into several
+ files. The contents of these files is "Packetized Elementary Stream" (PES)
+ and contains ES packets with ids 0xE0 for video, 0xC0 for audio 1 and 0xC1
+ for audio 2 (if available). Dolby Digital data is stored in packets with
+ ids 0xBD.
+