Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... >> What I would *love* to see is the following feature: >> Every time VDR does an EPG scan, it reads from the channel it just >> switched to. If there are no data within a few seconds, it increments >> a number in the channel entry, if there are data, it clears this >> number. If the number exceeds a configurable threshold, the >> channel entry is deleted. >> Before adding new channels to channels.conf, VDR switches to the >> channel and reads from it. If there are no data within a few seconds, >> it does not add it. >> >> With this feature, only interesting new channels (like the ones you >> observed above) would appear at the end of channels.conf, inactive >> channels would disappear automatically after a while and the whole >> channels.conf would stay a lot cleaner and more manageable. > > > Sounds like a good thing to do in a plugin How do I extend the EPG scan in a plugin? Carsten.