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@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ If the program shall run as a daemon, use the --daemon option. This will completely detach it from the terminal and will continue as a background process. +Command line options: +--------------------- + Use "vdr --help" for a list of available command line options. The video data directory: @@ -57,14 +60,41 @@ The video data directory: All recordings are written into directories below "/video". Please make sure this directory exists, and that the user who runs the 'vdr' program has read and write access to that directory. -If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can change -the value of 'BaseDir' in recording.c. +If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can use +the '-v' option to change that. Note that the file system need not be 64-bit proof, since the 'vdr' program splits video files into chunks of about 1GB. You should use a disk with several gigabytes of free space. One GB can store roughly half an hour of video data. +If you have more than one disk and don't want to combine them to form +one large logical volume, you can set up several video directories as +mount points for these disks. All of these directories must have the +same basic name and must end with a numeric part, which starts at 0 for +the main directory and has increasing values for the rest of the +directories. For example + + /video0 + /video1 + /video2 + +would be a setup with three directories. You can use more than one +numeric digit, and the directories need not be directly under '/': + + /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.00 + /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.01 + /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.02 + ... + /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.11 + +would set up twelve disks (wow, what a machine that would be!). + +To use such a multi directory setup, you need to add the '-v' option +with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr': + + vdr -v /video0 + Configuration files: -------------------- |