Ok, another question. How to distinguish between radio, video and data channels ? The man page says that if VPID == 0 the channel is radio FTA, if VPID == 1 the channel is radio encrypted. What about data channels ? Thanks, Roberto Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 15:10 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha scritto: > Roberto Sebastiano wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 14:44 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha > > scritto: > > > >>>>From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid > >>>channel line is: > >>> > >>>Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet > >> > >>Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)). > > > > > > That's not what the scan utility prints. > > The format given by scan with the -p option is > > Provider - ChannelName:field2:field3:... > > > > where, as you said, provider == bouquet > > > > So, what's the correct syntax ? > > man vdr(5) of version the current developer version says: > > The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left > to right): > > Name The channel's name (if the name originally contains a ':' character > it has to be replaced by '|'). Some tv stations provide a way of > deriving a "short name" from the channel name, which can be used in > situations where there is not much space for displaying a long > name. If a short name is available for this channel, it follows the > full name and is delimited by a comma, as in > > RTL Television,RTL:... > > If present, the name of the service provider or "bouquet" is > appended to the channel name, separated by a semicolon, as in > > RTL Television,RTL;RTL World:... > > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr