From 3499416f0785923f40afe0478598c157c9fa00e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:37:30 +0200
Subject: Using 'Priority' when checking for timer matches
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MANUAL | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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@@ -108,4 +108,43 @@ Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
* Programming the Timer
Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings.
-
+ The parameters in the "Edit Timer" menu have the following meanings:
+
+ Active: Defines whether the timer will be processed (set it to 'no' to
+ temporarily desable a timer).
+ Channel: The channel to be recorded (as defined in the "Channels" list).
+ Any changes made in the "Channels" list (like renaming or
+ reordering channels) will be automatically reflected in the
+ timers settings.
+ Day: The day on which this timer shall start. This can be either a
+ "day of month" (1..31), which allows programming a "single shot"
+ timer that hits once and is deleted after it ends. Single shot
+ timers can be programmed up to one month into the future.
+ Another option here are "repeating timers" which are defined
+ by listing the days of the week on which they shall record.
+ For example, a timer that shall record every monday and wednesday
+ would have a Day setting of "M-W----".
+ Start: The start time of the timer in hh:mm as 24 hour ("military") time.
+ Stop: The stop time of the timer.
+ Priority: The Priority (0..99) is used to decide which timer shall be
+ started in case there are two or more timers with the exact same
+ start time. The first timer in the list with the highest Priority
+ will be used. This value is also stored with the recording and is
+ later used to decide which recording to remove from disk in order
+ to free space for a new recording. If the disk is full and a new
+ recording needs more space, an existing recording with the lowest
+ Priority (and which has exceeded its guaranteed Lifetime) will be
+ removed.
+ Lifetime: The number of days (0..99) a recording made through this timer is
+ guaranteed to remain on disk before it is automatically removed
+ to free up space for a new recording. Note that setting this
+ parameter to very high values for all recordings may soon fill up
+ the entire disk and cause new recordings to fail due to low disk
+ space.
+ File: The name under which a recording created through this timer will
+ be stored on disk (the actual name will also contain the date and
+ time, so it is possible to have a "repeating timer" store all its
+ recordings under the same name; they will be distinguishable by
+ their date and time).
+ If this field is left blank, the channel name will be used to form
+ the name of the recording.
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