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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2021-04-13 13:54:00 +0200
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2021-04-13 13:54:00 +0200
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To avoid problems with very short events, non-VPS pattern timers now spawn timers for all matching events that would start while the first one is still recording
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@@ -540,9 +540,9 @@ The following rules apply to pattern timers:
with the given start/stop time. Overlapping events are recorded in full,
even if they extend outside the given start/stop interval.
- In order to actually record an event, a pattern timer "spawns" a separate timer
- that does the recording. At most two timers are spawned from a pattern timer at
- any given time, one for the next upcoming matching event, and one for
- the event immediately following that one, in case it also matches.
+ that does the recording. If there are matching events that would start while
+ the first spawned timer is still recording (due to the start/stop margins), timers
+ for those events are also spawned.
- Spawned timers are marked with the flag tfSpawned.
- Spawned timers take the Priority, Lifetime and VPS settings from the pattern timer.
- The special pattern "*" matches every event. So a timer with