Andreas Brugger wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >> Andreas Brugger wrote: >> >>> Hi Klaus! >>> >>> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >>> >>>> Christian Wieninger wrote: >>>> >>>>> or the search timer that was >>>>> responsible for the timer. I think, VDRAdmin works the same way. >>>>> After the recording is done this info was available til now in the >>>>> recordings description. If I understood you right, this info should >>>>> now be moved to the 'aux' field. Do you plan any way, to display >>>>> the 'aux' value for timers and recordings in VDR's OSD? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The recorded channel is already stored in the 'C' record of the >>>> info.vdr >>>> file. If necessary, that information can be displayed in the >>>> cSkin::SetRecording() function. The actual "aux" value of a timer >>>> has no >>>> conceivable meaning to VDR, so there's no point in displaying it, >>>> I'd say. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> But isn't that just private information? I don't see any way to get >>> that information except reading the info-File directly. >>> Could you please add a function to derive this information as I think >>> this could be a nice feature in a skin? >> >> >> >> There will be a function to retrieve the 'aux' string from >> cRecordingInfo. >> However, I don't see what a skin (that doesn't know anything about what >> the actual content of that string means) could reasonably do with it. >> Sure, it could display it, ending up in something like >> >> Aux: 123blafaslhisomeinf456this789ismystring >> >> Meaning: the string could be *anything* (even non-printable characters). > > > Sorry, my question wasn't written very well. I meant the channelID. Is > there (or will there be) a way to retreive this ID from the info.vdr via > the API? Oh, sorry. There is currently no such function, but that can be provided. Klaus
