Sad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to work back on the parental lock plugin that I've made > loong time ago, and which doesn't work anymore on the last VDR version > (by the way, congratulations to all vdr/plugin developer) > > I'm thinking of a way to "limit" the needed patches for such "options", > and I wonder if there is no way to include one more field to the > channels.conf, which would enable/disable the viewing of the channel (in > locked mode). > > What I propose is to implement by myself this features (to the cChannel > class) and I wonder if this could be implemented to the next VDR > versions (not the full parental lock functions, but only the > channels.conf field, reading functions and one little more function such > as bool cChannels.IsLocked(), the rest of the parental lock > implementation still under plugin form). > I guess this should not break anything... > > @Klaus : Do you think it is possible? The channels.conf file shall only contain data that is broadcast from the data stream - nothing else. What I am going to implement (with luck even before 1.4) are user defined "favorite channel" lists. Such a list could contain only channels you consider non-harmful for your kids. Klaus
