Re: [vdr] Changing location of /srv/vdr

2007-06-09 Thread Chris Matchett
Thanks for the tip about VDR_OPTIONS. The Fedora package did not create /srv/vdr and I didn't want to use this location anyway as I currently record tv to another location and wanted to stick with that. Excellent software by the way! Chris ___ vdr mai

[vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs increase? My current config is as follws /etc/default/vdr is as below; # /etc/d

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread JJussi
On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09, Andrew Herron wrote: > I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR > 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best > to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs > increase? Magic w

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-09 Thread Udo Richter
Josce Unknown wrote: I am sure this would fix the problem. However, is this really the way it should work? The clock is four minutes off, let's PANIC? VDR still defaults to start recordings three minutes before scheduled time, right? I wouldn't want to rely my recordings on a clock that is t

[vdr] [PATCH] recordsshowfree

2007-06-09 Thread Walter Koch
Moin, whenever you enter the recordings page via a direct key (e.g. the red key if no menu is open), you need to go back to the main menu page to know the available disk space. So I wrote a patch to show this info on the recordings page too, e.g.: Disk 95%, 4:40 (7,0 GB) free. It is for vdr

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I will look at evms & lvm. Thanks. But I'd still like to understand how vdr's own managment of multiple video.xx directories works... Can anyone explain what my options are for using multiple video.xxdirectories? On 6/9/07, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09,

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Udo Richter
Andrew Herron wrote: > I will look at evms & lvm. Thanks. > > But I'd still like to understand how vdr's own managment of multiple > video.xx directories works... > > Can anyone explain what my options are for using multiple video.xx > directories? The details about handling multiple video dir

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Udo Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The details about handling multiple video directories are explained in VDR's INSTALL file. Basically, if you specify -v /var/lib/video.00 on command line, VDR will automatically search for .01 and so on, and will use them all for recording. Di

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-09 Thread Josce Unknown
>VDR still defaults to start recordings three minutes before scheduled time, >right? I wouldn't want to rely my recordings on a clock that is that bad. That's why I have set it to start ten minutes earlier :) >The worst I had was on a 286, running 40s off per day. Good thing that this >is over.

[vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi again, Can someone give me some guidance on how to confgure the following; I have a central machine running vdr 1.4.6 (has all the recording storage and dvb cards) I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting (got it again ... )

2007-06-09 Thread Josce Unknown
Managed to get the PANIC again, by doing this: - set a timer to start 1 hour from now - close vdr - use date to set the clock 5 min forward (with date) - reboot Can someone else reproduce this? Josce Jun 9 22:23:10 localhost vdr: [2220] VDR version 1.4.5 started Jun 9 22:23:10 localhost vdr:

Re: [vdr] PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting

2007-06-09 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 12:28 +0200, Udo Richter wrote: > And, from the original post: > > May 31 20:23:38 localhost vdr: [3413] System Time = Thu May 31 20:23:38 > > 2007 (1180632218) > > May 31 20:23:38 localhost vdr: [3413] Local Time = Thu May 31 20:19:37 2007 > > (1180631977) > > May 31 20:21:

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-09 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:15 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect > back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines will have > no dvb cards (they will all be located at the vdr server). How do i > configure my vdr client mach

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If you don't watch different recordings / channels at the same time you can just run vdr-sxfe at each client and connect to the single VDR server. You'll get same video + OSD mirrored to all locations. But, if you need to have independently