Options Recordings
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[edit] One Click Programming (EPG)
Sometime program times can change and there is no possibility to detect this automatically. So it is a good idea to let the timer start automatically a few minutes earlier and end a few minutes later to make sure the whole program is recorded.
[edit] Time before
If you program timers with the EPG this value is subtracted from the start time of the timer (which lets the timer start xx minutes earlier).
[edit] Time after
If you program timers with the EPG this value is added to the end time of the timer.
[edit] Instant Recording
Instant recordings (pressing the record button) and Timeshift recording (pressing the record button while Timeshift is active) are realized as timers in the DVBViewer. This means the endtime and the end action can be changed in the recording window.
[edit] Recordingtime
Defines the default recording duration of an instant recording. The maximum duration of an instant recording is 23 hours and 59 minutes.
If you press the recording button while a instant recording is active you get a menu where you can change the duration of the instant recording very easy.
[edit] Instant EPG Buffer
With this setting you can influence which EPG entry is taken for instant recording to create the filenmae of the recording. If you enter 1 minute the the EPG entry which would be the current after one minute of the start of the recording would be taken.
[edit] Actions
Here you define the default values for programmed timers. You can adjust the settings for each timer individually in the timer edit window.
[edit] Default Recording Action
This the default recording action value used for every new created timer.
Record
- Record the programme.
Tune only
- Tunes the channel at the given time. No data is written. This function is useful for Siehfern Info updates or selective EPG updates.
- The programmed timer will use the Audiorecorder Plugin for recording.
[edit] Action After Recording
Sets the default action which is executed after a recording.
- Nothing Does nothing.
- Shutdown The DVBViewer shuts the PC down.
- Standby The DVBViewer sends the PC into Standby mode.
- Hibernate The DVBViewer sends the PC into the Hibernate mode.
- Close DVBViewer - Closes the DVBViewer.
- Start Playlist - A Playlist playback is started.
- Slumbermode - Puts the DVBViewer in a standby mode (close graph) with a low resources usage.
[edit] File Naming Scheme
Here you set up how the file name of a recording is composed. Only use in a file name allowed chars.
You can use this variables which are replaced with the actual values:
- %year the year
- %date sortable month and day
- %time the time
- %station the channel name
- %event the title
- %title the subtitle (if present). It will be shortened if it is longer than 240 chars.
- %name name of the timer
- %tshort the subtitle (if present) shortened to 80 chars.
- %m moth
- %d day of the month
- %h time hour
- %M time minute
- %g the Genre (if present)
- %D day of the week (Mo, Tue etc)
- Additional you can define sub folders.
- Example:
%station\%date_%time_%station_%event does:
[..]kabel eins\01-13_20-10-06_kabel eins_first strike - jackie chans erstschlag.ts
- You can use more than one sub folder. The sub folders are generated automatically. You can also use a predefined Folder name...
[edit] Create Information File
If this option is activated, the DVBViewer creates for each recording a text file with the same name. This file contains the EPG Data and further informations regarding the recording.
[edit] Save EPG as File Info
The NTFS-Filesystem (Windows 2000/XP/Vista) can store additional informations for a file. If this options is enabled the DVBViewer uses this to add the EPG data to a recording file. If you copy the recording onto a non NTFS drive (example: a DVD or a FAT32-Partition) you will loose the additional data. Editing (Demultiplexing, cutting) a recording will also remove this additional data, because most programs do not care about this data. To copy the data to the edited recording you can use the File Property Copier.
You can see the additional informations in the following places (for Vista32 you need to install the DVBViewer Recording Properties plugin, Vista64 users can not see the data):
- In the explorer as tool tip if the mouse hoovers over the file entry.
- In the properties of the file (right click...) tab „Fileinfo“.
- In the detail view of the Explorer, if the according detail columns are enabled.
The Information file and the file info can be used to rebuild the recording database of the DVBViewer. From this database the DVBViewer gets all its informations about the recordings.
[edit] Write Log-file
If enabled the DVBViewer creates a log-file for each recording and writes into it which DVB device was used, how high the average data rate was and if and when errors (Discontinuities) in the data stream occurred.
[edit] Write extended Log-file
If this option is enabled the DVBViewer writes additional information about the recorded PIDs and the audio and video format into the log file. It can only activated if Write Log file is enabled.
