From 0ff08f0bfb1460e0d0035081956a75b92aaa8359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Prochnow Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:54:49 +0200 Subject: Version 0.8 - added some logging - added option to hide the "new recordings column" - added possibility to edit lifetime and priority at the rename menu - changed alternative new marker, it marks now the recordings that are not "rewinded", if turned of the behaviour is like that of VDR's recordings menu - added support for a file length.vdr, containing the length of a recording as a string - new version of 'dvdarchive.sh'; thanks to vejoun from vdr-portal.de - added two small tools (in tools/); isodetect to check for a dvd in drive (optionally used by 'dvdarchive.sh'); getlength to create a length.vdr - updated error messages, more detailed now - fixed quoting of the parameters for dvdarchive.sh to avoid problems with filenames containing a ' - fixed unnecessary calls of 'dvdarchive.sh'; thanks to vejoun from vdr-portal.de for reporting --- README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index df0543b..9ef17ec 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ 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 +copyright information. The script 'dvdarchive.sh' is provided by vejoun from +vdr-portal.de Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -16,26 +17,28 @@ configurable. The plugin also handles archive dvd's of VDR recordings Handling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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: Select a recording, press 'Yellow', then 'Red'. Type in/edit the +name. By pressing 'Ok', the recording will be renamed with this name. -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: 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. DVDArchive-patch 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. 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 -and 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. +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. Installation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ 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 at +variable MOUNTPOINT to the mount point of your dvd device is it is defined in /etc/fstab. Check the options at the setup menu of the plugin. They are self-explaining. -- cgit v1.2.3