This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:         Martin Prochnow (nordlicht@martins-kabuff.de)
Project's homepage: http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu_en.html

See the file COPYING for license information.

I want to thank to following contributors:
- Mike Constabel <mike@constabel.net> for the skript dvdarchive.sh
- Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi> for the finnish translation
- Patrice Staudt <staudt@engsystem.net> for the frensh translation
- Vladimír Bárta <vladimir.barta@k2atmitec.cz> for the czech translation

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Description
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The EXTended RECordings MENU plugin provides additional functions to VDR's
recordings menu:

* renaming recordings and directories
* moving recordings and directories, also between different filesystems
* adjustable display of recording's length, date and size
* directories are always shown on top of the list
* reworked layout using icons for showing the status of list entries
  (directory, new recording, moving recording/directory, cutting recording,
  dvd archiv entry)
* extended recordings info menu, shows name, path, channel, size, lifetime and
  priority of the recording
* free disk space is shown for the filesystem of the current directory
* sorting by name or date, adjustable for each directory; type of sorting will
  be stored
* ascending/descending sorting
* extends VDR's '-r'-option commands with 'move' and 'rename'
* functionality of the DVDArchive-patch (see below)
* protecting recordings in co-work with the PIN-plugin
* a cutter queue

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Installation
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Installation of the plugin itselfs is like any other plugin installation. Check
the Makefile if you use the PIN-plugin. You have to place the script
'dvdarchive.sh' from the scripts/-directory within your $PATH (maybe adjust the
permissions) for the DVDArchive-patch functionality. See the top of
'dvdarchive.sh' for the adjustments you maybe have to take.

If your /video-directory is a nfs mount, you have to mount it with the option
'hard' to make renaming and moving of recordings work.

Check the options at the setup menu of the plugin. They are self-explaining.

There is a patch for VDR in contrib/ for replacing VDR's recordings menu with
this plugin. You have to set the corresponding option at the setup menu of the
plugin!

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Handling
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Editing
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Renaming: Press 'Yellow', then 'Red'. Type in/edit the name. By pressing 'Ok'
renaming will be executed.

Moving: Press 'Yellow', then 'Green'. Now you are at the base directory of the
/video-directory-hierarchy. 'Ok' opens sub-directories, with 'Yellow' you can
create new dirs. With 'Blue' moving to the selected dir will be executed.

Details: Select a recording, press 'Yellow', then 'Blue'. In this menu you can
edit the lifetime and priority of the selected recording. Editing the details
of archive dvd entries is not possible, because this would change the name by
which the recording is found on the disc.

Cutter queue
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With the build-in cutter queue you don't have to wait until an editing process
ended before you can start a new one. It only works, if you start the editing
process from a replay that was started in the plugin.

Canceling of editing or move processes
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Mark the entry, press 'Yellow'.

Sort recordings
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All directories are sorted by date by default. To change the sorting, simply
press '0'. Ascending or descending sorting is selectable at plugin's setup
menu.

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DVDArchive-patch functionality
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Burn the entire directory, that contains the recording, to a dvd and label it
with an identifier (a number or anything else). At least the *.rec-folder has
to be on the dvd, because the recording is identified by this. You can of
course burn more than one recording to a dvd.

Now you can delete the video data files (001.vdr, 002.vdr, ...) from your hard
disc. Leave the index.vdr and info.vdr at the dir. index.vdr is needed if you
want the length of the recording displayed. You can also use 'getlength' from
the tools/-directory to create a length.vdr, containing the length of the
recording. If you do this, you can also delete index.vdr.

Create a new file dvd.vdr, that contains the identifier of the dvd. If you now
call the plugin and select such a recording entry you are asked to insert this
dvd. It will be mounted by the plugin and the replay starts from the dvd. After
replay ends, the dvd is unmountet instantly.

You can also include normal video dvds to your recordings hierarchy. Create a
folder with the name of the dvd. In this folder, create another one with
following name scheme: DD-MM-YY.hh.mm.pr.li.rec. The letters have following
meanings: DD - day (01-31), MM - month (01-12), YY - year (00-99), hh - hour
(00-23), mm - minutes (00-59), pr - priority (00-99), li - lifetime (00-99).
(Example: 01-01-06.20.15.50.99.rec) You must use this name scheme, so that VDR
identifies the folder as a recording. Now create in this folder a file dvd.vdr.
The first column contains the dvd id, in the second column write 0000 (or
anything else, its only important that there is a second column). This
identifies the dvd as a video dvd. If you now select such a recording in the
list you are asked to insert the dvd and after confirming this the DVD-plugin
is started to play the video dvd.

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