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Diffstat (limited to 'vdr.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.5 | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" -.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.49 2006/02/18 15:59:00 kls Exp $ +.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.50 2006/02/25 11:16:02 kls Exp $ .\" .TH vdr 5 "19 Feb 2006" "1.3.43" "Video Disk Recorder Files" .SH NAME @@ -321,11 +321,11 @@ recording (if that data is available). If at the time of recording either of these cannot be determined, \fBTITLE\fR will default to the channel name, and \fBEPISODE\fR will default to a blank. .TP -.B Summary -Arbitrary text that describes the recording made by this timer. -Any newline characters in the summary have to be replaced by '|', and -the summary may contain ':' characters. If this field is not empty, its -contents will be written into the \fIinfo.vdr\fR file of the recording. +.B Auxiliary data +An arbitrary string that can be used by external applications to store any +kind of data related to this timer. The string must not contain any newline +characters. If this field is not empty, its contents will be written into the +\fIinfo.vdr\fR file of the recording with the '@' tag. .SS SOURCES The file \fIsources.conf\fR defines the codes to be used in the \fBSource\fR field of channels in \fIchannels.conf\fR and assigns descriptive texts to them. @@ -567,8 +567,9 @@ actual contents of this file. .SS INFO The file \fIinfo.vdr\fR (if present in a recording directory) contains a description of the recording, derived from the EPG data at recording time -(if such data was available) or the \fBSummary\fR field of the corresponding -timer. This is a plain ASCII file and contains tagged lines like the \fBEPG DATA\fR +(if such data was available). The \fBAux\fR field of the corresponding +timer (if given) is copied into this file, using the '@' tag. +This is a plain ASCII file and contains tagged lines like the \fBEPG DATA\fR file (see the description of the \fIepg.data\fR file). Note that the tags c, E, e and V will not appear in an \fIinfo.vdr\fR file. .SS RESUME @@ -626,6 +627,8 @@ All other tags are optional (although every event should at least have a \fBT\fR entry). There may be several \fBX\fR tags, depending on the number of tracks (video, audio etc.) the event provides. +The special tag character \fB@\fR is used to mark the \fBauxiliary data\fR from +a timer definition in the \fIinfo.vdr\fR file. .TS tab (@); |