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Support for more than one video directory
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@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ If the program shall run as a daemon, use the --daemon option. This
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will completely detach it from the terminal and will continue as a
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background process.
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Command line options:
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---------------------
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Use "vdr --help" for a list of available command line options.
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The video data directory:
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@@ -57,14 +60,41 @@ The video data directory:
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All recordings are written into directories below "/video". Please
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make sure this directory exists, and that the user who runs the 'vdr'
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program has read and write access to that directory.
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If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can change
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the value of 'BaseDir' in recording.c.
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If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can use
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the '-v' option to change that.
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Note that the file system need not be 64-bit proof, since the 'vdr'
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program splits video files into chunks of about 1GB. You should use
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a disk with several gigabytes of free space. One GB can store roughly
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half an hour of video data.
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If you have more than one disk and don't want to combine them to form
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one large logical volume, you can set up several video directories as
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mount points for these disks. All of these directories must have the
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same basic name and must end with a numeric part, which starts at 0 for
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the main directory and has increasing values for the rest of the
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directories. For example
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/video0
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/video1
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/video2
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would be a setup with three directories. You can use more than one
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numeric digit, and the directories need not be directly under '/':
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/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.00
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/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.01
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/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.02
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...
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/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.11
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would set up twelve disks (wow, what a machine that would be!).
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To use such a multi directory setup, you need to add the '-v' option
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with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr':
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vdr -v /video0
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Configuration files:
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