Intelligent estimation of the HDD space needed

[emitrom]

Hi,

Just a note to say new user of gb-pcr and I think it is excellent. Bought a PVR-350, USB-UIRT, media MVP installed on a 2.4GHz P4 with ease.

My only two downs were to reset the whole PC easily, found plugin (GREAT!, and this one once using GB in anger.

Please forgive this if this has already been covered... I looked throught the wish lists briefly and couldn't find it...

Intelligent estimation of the HDD space required

Problem:

I setup two programs to record then found that one had only recorded 1/2 hour and the other only 1 minute. Now I know its my fault for not checking the available space ( :-( ) but it would have been nice to be told that I didn't have enough space.

Solutions:

(1) In the configuration for gb-pvr you have the details of the amount of space direct recording/capture will take (Medium = 6MBit/s etc) so when a new program is added an estimation of the required sapce can be calculated and compared to the available HDD space with a warning given to the user if enough space is not available.

**OR**

(2) make the current settings available via an interface (don't know about your API's yet but I intend to have a look! so that plug-in creators could use this info give the user a breakdown of the HDD without needing to connect up a monitor.

Another angle could be to allow the setting of the recording quailty from the interface at the same time so if the user is running out of space then s/he can select a low bitrate so as not to miss the program.

Please do not see this as a critism, this is a great piece of software that I would love to see made perfect (or as near as possible #### it!

Also, another question for another topic really I should think is development environment. Can I assume from the system requirements of .Net that GB-PVR is written within that or was that required to access arcane pieces of the Windows XP environment :->


Emitrom

[Huw]

there is a shutdown plugin which will sort out you first question

for your other question, I am writing a sysinfo plugin which displays amongst other things a disk space viewer, have a look in the dev forum for a link to the beta. you can currently set the recording quality when you set up a recording.


gbpvr is written in c# .net

[emitrom]

Quote[/b] (Huw @ Nov. 07 2004,07:17)]there is a shutdown plugin which will sort out you first question

for your other question, I  am writing a sysinfo plugin which displays amongst other things a disk space viewer, have a look in the dev forum for a link to the beta. you can currently set the recording quality when you set up a recording.


gbpvr is written in c# .net

Hi,

yes maybe I was unclear that I had found the shutdown and I am using it.

Can you set the recording quailty when you setup the program to record? I didn't see it but I will have a dig around or is this a new addition to your sysinfo tool.

Ah... c# .net hmmm.... well at least it should be easy to extend. :-)

SO you have access to an API to set or get the current specified recording quality?

thanks

[Huw]

Quote[/b] ]SO you have access to an API to set or get the current specified recording quality?

setting record quality is an option on the record screen.

[emitrom]

That's cool ta... gb-pvr newbie here remember!

But the question still remains wether you can find out the current recordings and data associated with them... with that I could them summarise how much HDD space the current record takes up and then give a comparison to what *actually* exists..... hmm... why do I get the feeling I am talking myself into some coding???


hey ho... happened before and looks like its happening again...


So even if I cannot stop a recording taking place I could write a plugin to warn the user that there is a problem?

Does the system have a listener/publisher type pattern built in for the plugins to listen to event changes?

Or even send event changes to the system???

[Huw]

I appologise in advance if any of this is incorrect, I'm a fairly recent devote to GBPVR myself

I think to do what you require would need a completely new recording plugin, or would require sub to redo the existing one.

Recording size is approx 4Gb an hour for medium quality and about 6-7Gb an hour for High, plus you can set up custom options.

There is an IEventNotification which the plugins can hook into, and you should be able to get a list of scheduled recording from within a plugin (I think)

[emitrom]

Quote[/b] (Huw @ Nov. 08 2004,06:07)]I appologise in advance if any of this is incorrect, I'm a fairly recent devote to GBPVR myself

I think to do what you require would need a completely new recording plugin, or would require sub to redo the existing one.

Recording size is approx 4Gb an hour for medium quality and about 6-7Gb an hour for High, plus you can set up custom options.

There is an IEventNotification which the plugins can hook into, and you should be able to get a list of scheduled recording from within a plugin (I think)

naaa... thats cool... the only way to work these things out is to share... and then get flamed!!! ;->

Hmmm... I agree that a redo maybe the final answer but initially I could look at making a proof-of-concept wrt the summary and recording space left idea...

Seen those values approx. for the record I have made... look s like it would be the custom options that could cause trouble... but I am sure that the details are enough to work out the maths.


Ta for the IEventNotification info I will have a loo into it and have a play at some point... now to get the bits together to create a dev. system....

[reven]

i got a solution, get a 400gb hdd that should solve most of your problems

[emitrom]

Quote[/b] (reven @ Nov. 08 2004,21:58)]i got a solution, get a 400gb hdd that should solve most of your problems

How Rude!!!!

But thats not as fun as coding...

[Huw]

Quote[/b] ]But thats not as fun as coding...

No, but a lot less stress