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Subject: Re: [vdr] A way to force writing the epg.data ?
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Gregoire Favre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way (maybe with SVDRP) to force VDR to write the epg.data to
> the disk in order to be able to use mastertimer on it ?
> 
> Thank you very much,


Personally i've patched VDR ever since i've started writing Master-Timer 
nearly 5 years ago.

The patch 'shifts' the 10 minutes writing to:
the epg.data-file has to be at least 10 minutes out of time

After that you just have to make the epg.data file a bit older and VDR 
updates it the next moment.
touch -r /bin/bash /video/video0/epg.data

Here's the patch:






Bis denn

diff -Nur vdr-1.2.6a/eit.c vdr-1.2.6/eit.c
--- vdr-1.2.6a/eit.c    Sun Oct 12 13:05:42 2003
+++ vdr-1.2.6/eit.c     Fri Aug  6 11:28:13 2004
@@ -1194,6 +1194,15 @@
           time_t now = time(NULL);
           struct tm tm_r;
           struct tm *ptm = localtime_r(&now, &tm_r);
+         struct stat st;
+         if (stat (AddDirectory(VideoDirectory, "epg.data"),&st) != 0)
+         {
+            lastDump = 0;
+         }
+         else
+         {
+            lastDump = st.st_mtime;
+         }
           if (now - lastCleanup > 3600 && ptm->tm_hour == 5)
           {
              cMutexLock MutexLock(&schedulesMutex);