Options Service - 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] 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.
[edit] Action After Recording
Sets the default action which is executed after a recording.
- Nothing Does nothing.
- Shutdown The DVBViewer Recording Service shuts the PC down.
- Standby The DVBViewer Recording Service sends the PC into Standby mode.
- Hibernate The DVBViewer Recording Service sends the PC into the Hibernate mode.
The DVBViewer Recording Service can create a wakeup timer for the modes "Standby" and "Hibernate", which wakes the PC at the given time. For the Power Off mode this is not possible.
[edit] Task after Recording
Here you can program the default process task which will be run after each recording, if it wasn't changed on a per timer basis. You have to create the process tasks on the Task page. For further informations see also After recording tasks.
[edit] Default Priority
Here you define the default priority of new timers.
If two timers with different priorities start at the same time the one with the higher priority is preferred, if there are not enough DVB-devices. A higher priority timer can also stop a lower priority timer to get a device.
[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.
- %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 Recording Service 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 recording service 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 Recording Service. From this database the DVBViewer Recording Service gets all its informations about the recordings.
[edit] Write Log-file
If enabled the Recording Service 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 Recording Service 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.
