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J2: OK, I can give you the big picture of what this plugin does, overall.

J1: Yep.

J2: In the end, the news recording of every hour pops out.

J1: M-hm.

J2: The way this works is that there are multiple processors, so there is the central
    plugin and multiple processors which each handle one wave.

J1: <*nods*>

J2: For most of them, right after the full hour there is a check, if there is a new file on
    the remote share.
    If so, the most recent file is selected and it starts checking how the file changes
    size-wise.

J1: <*stops nodding, looks to his upper right*>

J2: I mean, it looks until the file does not get bigger anymore, then it is apparently
    ready.

J1: M-hm

J2: And then it is fetched and handed over to transcoding.

J1: In what time window are you looking?

J2: I start looking two minutes after the full hour, because then it’s guaranteed that
    news files exist if any exist.

J1: OK

J2: And then monitor this file as long as needed until it’s ready. That can take up to
    seven minutes, depending on the wave.

J1: Hm ya but mh the time window for the change?

J2: Yes, right, that is, er, time window for the change is variable, depends on how the
    news go.
    I can’t know that, right? You know, they always start a new file. When the news
    are over, again a file is created. I mean, I basically never have more than the news.

J1: Yes, no, I mean ’cause you said you look for so long until the size stops changing,
    right?

J2: M-hm

J1: Then you need to plan for a time window in which a change could happen, right?

J2: Yeah, well, until up to five before the hour. I really take my time.

J1: <laughs> No, I really mean the size now, the size of the time window, I mean (!...!)
    You wait for 10 seconds, then after 10 seconds you decide: In those 10 seconds
    nothing has changed, so the file appears to be ready.

J2: Ahhh, that’s what you mean. No, 30 seconds.

J1: 30 seconds, that’s what I wanted.

J2: That’s 30 seconds long the time window. Now I got you.
    I can show it to you in a minute.

J1: Yes. And the NewsPlugin is doing what in all of this? Does it do
    exactly this monitoring and the delegation to the individual wave plugins,
    or what?

J2: No. The NewsPlugin basically only does (!...!) it gets called periodically
    by the cron server [...]

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J2: And it sets the remoteNewsFile, which comes out of the function getLastFile().
    That’s one function we may replace later on. [...]
    Shall we look into the function, or not?

J1: No, not now, please.

J2: Not now, ok.

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