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@@ -5,25 +5,24 @@ Written by: Martin Prochnow (nordlicht@martins-kabuff.de) Project's homepage: http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu.html See the file COPYING for license information. See top of *.c for additional -copyright information. The script 'dvdarchive.sh' is provided by vejoun from -vdr-portal.de. +copyright information. The script 'dvdarchive.sh' is provided by Mike +Constabel (vejoun@toppoint.de). Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This plugin provides a recordings menu enhanced with the possibility to -rename or move recordings. The display of recording date, time and length is -configurable. The plugin also handles archive dvd's of VDR recordings -(as known from the DVDArchive-patch for VDR). +rename or move recordings and directories. The display of recording date, time +and length is configurable. The plugin also handles archive dvd's of VDR +recordings (as known from the DVDArchive-patch for VDR). Editing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Renaming: Select a recording, press 'Yellow', then 'Red'. Type in/edit the -name. By pressing 'Ok', the recording will be renamed with this name. +Renaming: Press 'Yellow', then 'Red'. Type in/edit the name. By pressing 'Ok' +renaming will be executed. -Moving: Select a recording, press 'Yellow', then 'Green'. Now you are at the -base directory of the /video-directory-hierarchy. 'Ok' opens sub-directories, -with 'Yellow' you can create new dirs. 'Blue' moves the recording to the -selected directory. +Moving: Press 'Yellow', then 'Green'. Now you are at the base directory of the +/video-directory-hierarchy. 'Ok' opens sub-directories, with 'Yellow' you can +create new dirs. With 'Blue' moving to the selected dir will be executed. Details: Select a recording, press 'Yellow', then 'Blue'. In this menu you can edit the lifetime and priority of the selected recording. @@ -36,38 +35,47 @@ Sort recordings by: - date for main-, flexible for subdirectories - alphabet for all directories - date for all directories -Flexible means, if the directory name ends with "-",".","$" or "ª", the +Flexible means, if the directory name ends with "-",".","$" or "ª", the recordings in this directory are sorted by name, else by date. Archiv-DVD-functionality ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Burn the entire directory, that contains the recording, to a dvd and label it -with an indentifier (a number or anything else). You can of cource burn more -than one recording to a dvd. +with an identifier (a number or anything else). At least the *.rec-folder has +to be on the dvd, because the recording is identified by this. You can of +course burn more than one recording to a dvd. + Now you can delete the video data files (001.vdr, 002.vdr, ...) from your hard disc. Leave the index.vdr and info.vdr at the dir. index.vdr is needed if you want the length of the recording displayed. You can also use 'getlength' from the tools/-directory to create a length.vdr, containing the length of the recording. If you do this, you can also delete index.vdr. + Create a new file dvd.vdr, that contains the identifier of the dvd. If you now call the plugin and select such a recording entry you are asked to insert this dvd. It will be mounted by the plugin and the replay starts from the dvd. After replay ends, the dvd is unmountet instantly. +You can also include normal video dvds to your recordings hierarchy. Create a +folder with the name of the dvd. In this folder, create another one with +following name scheme: DD-MM-YY.hh.mm.pr.li.rec. The letters have following +meanings: DD - day (01-31), MM - month (01-12), YY - year (00-99), hh - hour +(00-23), mm - minutes (00-59), pr - priority (00-99), li - lifetime (00-99). +(Example: 01-01-06.20.15.50.99.rec) You must use this name scheme, so that VDR +identifies the folder as a recording. Now create in this folder a file dvd.vdr. +The first column contains the dvd id, in the second column write 0000. This +identifies the dvd as a video dvd. If you now select such a recording in the +list you are asked to insert the dvd and after confirming this the dvd-plugin +is started to play the video dvd. + Installation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation of the plugin itselfs is like any other plugin installation. In addition you have to place the script 'dvdarchive.sh' from the -scripts/-directory within your $PATH (eventualy adjust the rights) for the -DVDArchive-patch functionality. - -For VDR running as a user the script is designed to use sudo. Therefor sudo has -to be installed on your system and configured to execute mount and umount -without asking for a password. If you run VDR as root, change the variables -MOUNTCMD and UMOUNTCMD at top of the skript. Furthermore you have to adjust the -variable MOUNTPOINT to the mount point of your dvd device is it is defined in -/etc/fstab. +scripts/-directory within your $PATH (maybe adjust the permissions) for the +DVDArchive-patch functionality. See the top of 'dvdarchive.sh' for the +adjustments you maybe have to do. Check the options at the setup menu of the plugin. They are self-explaining. |