Re: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Carsten Koch) 12.09.06 20:22 >Guido Fiala wrote: >... >> Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - >> How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) >Actually, according to >http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm >the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquad

Re: [vdr] 451 Grab image failed v4l problem?

2006-09-12 Thread Stone
On 9/12/06, Leo Márquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi again,I have installed the last mercurial v4l version and the grab commandstill not working.Anyone knows what could be the problem?Did you specify enabling the grab function in your vdr startup command? For example: OPTIONS="-l 3 --grab=/tmp"BR.

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:22, Carsten Koch wrote: > Guido Fiala wrote: > ... > > > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - > > How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) > > Actually, according to > http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm > the Enterprise D has a mere

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Carsten Koch wrote: > Neither is my VDR system even close to the largest one. > I believe that Matthias Schniedermeier has so many disks > in his house that the house no longer requires a separate > heating system. ;-) Not excatly. I would call it "semy-online"-storage. Normaly the HDDs are swi

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Carsten Koch wrote: > martin wrote: > ... > >>go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) > > > Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) > Let's take a look at my vdr system: > > /video> df -hT > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G

AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
So Carsten, you talk about archiving. Then you should definitely go for h264 coding, with constant quality. Why keep everything online? What is the aim of having terra bytes online? It costs a lot of energy. Coding and burning to an offline media would help a lot then. And BTW: even your mp3 co

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Carsten Koch wrote: ... > Actually, according to > http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm > the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/artikel-computer.htm __

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Guido Fiala wrote: ... > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - > How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. But seriously: My VDR system started out in June 2000

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 19:07, Carsten Koch wrote: > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G 136G 8% / > udev tmpfs253M 236K 252M 1% /dev > /dev/hdb1 xfs149G 86G 64G 58% /vdr2 > /dev/hdc1 xfs149G 115G

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
martin wrote: ... > go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) Let's take a look at my vdr system: /video> df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G 136G 8% / udev tmpfs253M 236

AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
You may want to go for a hardware solution .. http://www.litec-computer.de/Festplatten/35/UDMA/Seagate-ST3750640A-750GB-72 00RPM-16MB::10223.html would make 250 Films á 3GB .. let's assume: 3GB equals 1 hour and think of: max. 8 hours per day viewing .. would mean you have more than 30 days, "in

[vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Most of my VDR movies are between 2 and 3 GB in size. I assume that there would be no noticeable loss of quality, if I would convert them to DivX movies of about half the size, maybe also removing any unwanted sound tracks. This could even be done automatically by a background process. However, t

Re: [vdr] 451 Grab image failed v4l problem?

2006-09-12 Thread Leo Márquez
Hi again, I have installed the last mercurial v4l version and the grab command still not working. Anyone knows what could be the problem? Thanks!. Leo Márquez wrote: I have problems to activating grab images in vdr 1.4.2 and kernel 2.6.17.11. I have readed old recently posts about this prob

[vdr] 451 Grab image failed v4l problem?

2006-09-12 Thread Leo Márquez
I have problems to activating grab images in vdr 1.4.2 and kernel 2.6.17.11. I have readed old recently posts about this problem: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-June/009741.html It talks about v4l driver problem and says installing mercurial driver solves the problem. The post is fr

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Cut-a-Lot 0.0.1

2006-09-12 Thread marius
Hi everybody, I'm pleased to announce my first plugin to the community. Fetch it here: http://vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=54603 >From README --- %< - Description: Cuts one recording into several recordings usi