Recorder options management

[bda]

Imho, two interesting features:

1) If more than one "Directory" destination for recording is specified in "Directory" list, if these directories are on different physical disk, when (during a recording session) the free space on the disk go below the "Minimum free space", DVBViewer automatically select the first destination (from the top to the bottom) in the list which has enough free space for the recording. The user can enable this option through a checkbox: "Allow the automatic selection of the directory with enough free space".

2) Ability to associate different directories with different available tuners. For example, tuner A (sat) puts recordings in C:\... while tuner B (terrestrial) puts recordings in F:\... This could decrease the I/O load on the disk, especially with multiple recordings in high definition.

 

Bye.

[Lars_MQ]

2. just assign the recording folder when creating the timer. The average HD recording has about 1 MB/s. You do the math how much recordings you need to overload the harddisk And the data is written in larger chunks so the disk I/O is already optimzed (first by the DVBViewer then by windows caching itself).

And you forget each running harddisk makes noise if it's not sleeping. So your suggestion would make the recording PC a lot nosier.

 

1. It already does work this way. but it will NOT splitt a running recording.

[Webturtle]

Hello Lars_MQ,

 

is this (1.) a new feature of DVBViewer Pro? I've found that DVBViewer used only the first directory in the listing even if there is no diskspace left. The running recording stopped and new recordings were not started. On the second alternative directory in the list (USB-Harddisk) was enough free space.http://www.DVBViewer...everzeichnisse/.

 

 

Many greetings

 

Webturtle

 

P.S. Ich würde mich freunen, wenn Du gegebenenfalls auch unter http://www.DVBViewer...everzeichnisse/ in Deutsch antworten könntest, falls es sich nicht um crossposting handelt .

Edited November 11, 2011 by Webturtle

[Lars_MQ]

Define a timer then open the Recordings window and select another folder with the button with the triangle besides the description field.

[vramor]

Please explain how to use MPEG with DVD Packet Size option properly. Thanks in advance!

[Gioxy]

@vramor:

 

...from DVBViewer Wiki:

 

MPEG with DVD packet size

This setting causes the DVBViewer to packetize the relatively large DVB-data blocks of recordings in MPG format into smaller pieces to a maximum size of 2 KB. This corresponds to the usual DVD-format, so that specialized DVD playback software and hardware is often better able to deal with it.

 

[vramor]

Thank you for the prompt reply! It really does.