Low diskspace warning

[aydan]

Hi,

 

it would be nice to have a low diskspace warning.

When programming recordnigs, there should be an evaluatoin of necessary diskspace and a warning should be issued if there's too little.

 

Bye

Aydan

[bergh]

Hello !

 

Problem is that DVBViewer CAN not KNOW how much Space a Movie will take.

You are 100% depending on the Bitrate = FileSize the TV-Company is providing/delivering.

If they provide low Bitrate a movie might have 1,5 GIG, the same movie with high Bitrate may Take 3,5 GIG.

So it is up to you to guestimate the necessary HD space.

[Guest Lars_MQ]

You may not know how big a moviefile will get, but you know when there is not enough space anymore while writing

One way to go: have serveral capture folders on different disks. Trigger a split file and write to another disk if filespace gets low.

 

Or maybe an priority system. you can give your recordings priorities and if a recording with a higher priority can't be continued a recorded file with a lower priority will be automatically deleted.

 

I'd prefer a combination of both methods Maybe Christian will implement multiple recording folders.

[aydan]

Do the stations change their bitrates? if not you could just remember the Bitrates for each station and give an estimate. Even if they do change their bitrates a rough estimate (worst case) would help.

[Griga]

Do the stations change their bitrates?

 

They do - it may vary from 2 MBit/s for one broadcast to 4 MBit/s for another broadcast. So remembering and estimating "from experience" doesn't make much sense. Have a look at the property page of the DVBViewer filter (View / Filters). It shows the video bitrate as sliding average of the last 100 PES packets.