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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2012-11-18 12:19:51 +0100
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2012-11-18 12:19:51 +0100
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Improved editing TS recordings
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@@ -367,13 +367,13 @@ Version 1.6
- 7, 9 Jump back and forward between editing marks. Replay goes into still
mode after jumping to a mark.
- 8 Positions replay at a point 3 seconds before the current or next
- "start" mark and starts replay.
+ "begin" mark and starts replay.
- 2 Start the actual cutting process.
Editing marks are represented by black, vertical lines in the progress display.
- A small black triangle at the top of the mark means that this is a "start"
+ A small black triangle at the top of the mark means that this is a "begin"
mark, and a triangle at the bottom means that this is an "end" mark.
- The cutting process will save all video data between "start" and "end" marks
+ The cutting process will save all video data between "begin" and "end" marks
into a new file (the original recording remains untouched). The new file will
have the same name as the original recording, preceded with a '%' character
(imagine the '%' somehow looking like a pair of scissors ;-). Red bars in the
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Version 1.6
The video sequences to be saved by the cutting process are determined by an
"even/odd" algorithm. This means that every odd numbered editing mark (i.e.
- 1, 3, 5,...) represents a "start" mark, while every even numbered mark (2, 4,
+ 1, 3, 5,...) represents a "begin" mark, while every even numbered mark (2, 4,
6,...) is an "end" mark. Inserting or toggling a mark on or off automatically
adjusts the sequence to the right side of that mark.
@@ -395,11 +395,13 @@ Version 1.6
version of the recording you can use the '8' key to jump to a point just
before the next cut and have a look at the resulting sequence.
- Currently editing marks can only be set at I-frames, which typically is
- every 12th frame. So editing can be done with a resolution of roughly half
- a second. A "start" mark marks the first frame of a resulting video
- sequence, and an "end" mark marks the last frame of that sequence.
-
+ Currently editing marks can only be set at I-frames, which typically appear
+ every half of a second to a second. A "begin" mark marks the first frame of
+ a resulting video sequence, and an "end" mark marks the last frame of that
+ sequence. Note that the actual frame indicated by the an "end" mark will
+ not be included in the edited version of the recording. That's because every
+ recording (and every sequence of an edited recording) begins with an I-frame
+ and ends right before the next I-frame.
An edited recording (indicated by the '%' character) will never be deleted
automatically in case the disk runs full (no matter what "lifetime" it has).