epgsearchdirs.conf(5)        EPGSearch Version 2.4.6       epgsearchdirs.conf(5)

NAME
     epgsearchdirs.conf – recording directories

DESCRIPTION
     In  EPGSearch, you often have to enter entire directory paths, for example,
     when editing search timers. Since this is rather tedious,  frequently  used
     paths can be specified in this file, which can then be easily selected from
     the menu.

     This file is one of the sources for the 'Select directory' menu.  The items
     displayed are collected from the following sources:

     • current recording directories

     • current timer directories

     • directories used in search timers

     • directories specified in this file

     • entries in the VDR file folders.conf

     The  menu  consolidates  the  found  directories and displays only distinct
     ones. The key 'yellow' allows changing the level of the directories  shown.
     Items  containing EPG category variables, like '%Genre%', always appear be‐
     fore other directories. They also do not depend on the level and are  shown
     with their full directory path.

     If  this  menu is called from the timer-edit menu and the selected item al‐
     ready contains the variables '%Title%' or %Subtitle, the timer's 'File' en‐
     try gets cleared, since title or subtitle already included in  the  'Direc‐
     tory' item.

SYNTAX
     Each  line contains the pathname of a directory that can include variables,
     if necessary.  You can use internal variables, those of EPG categories con‐
     figured in epgsearchcats.conf,  and  variables  defined  in  epgsearchuser‐
     vars.conf.

     The following internal variables are available:

     %Time%
         An event's start time in 'HH:MM' format.

     %Time_D%
         An event's start date in 'DD' format.

     %Time_W%
         Name of the weekday on which an event starts.

     %Time_Lng%
         An  event's  start date and time in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since
         1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).

     %Date%
         An event's start date in 'DD.MM.YY' format.

     %DateSh%
         An event's start date in 'DD.MM' format.

     %Title%
         An event's title.

     %Subtitle%
         An event's subtitle.

     Also see epgsearchcats.conf(5) and  epgsearchuservars.conf(5)  for  further
     variables.

EXAMPLE
        %Category%~%Genre%
        %Category%~%Genre%~%Title%~%Episode%: %Subtitle%
        %Series%
        Information~Nature~%Title%~%Episode%: %Subtitle%
        Movies~Action
        Movies~Documentary
        Movies~Drama
        Movies~Horror
        Music
        Sports

AUTHOR (man pages)
     Mike Constabel <epgsearch (at) constabel (dot) net>

REPORT BUGS
     Bug reports (german):

     <http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-epgsearch>

     Mailing list:

     <http://www.vdr-developer.org/mailman/listinfo/epgsearch>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
     Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Christian Wieninger

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un‐
     der  the  terms  of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
     Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at  your  option)
     any later version.

     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
     ANY  WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FIT‐
     NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
     details.

     You should have received a copy of the GNU  General  Public  License  along
     with  this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51
     Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA  Or,  point  your
     browser to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

     The author can be reached at cwieninger@gmx.de

     The project's page is at http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch

     The  MD5 code has been derived from the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm of RSA
     Data Security, Inc.

SEE ALSO
     epgsearch(1), epgsearchcats.conf(5), epgsearchuservars.conf(5)

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