It makes a lot of sense to me, but indeed, backward compatibility will be the biggest issue to discuss here. Regards, Torsten CR schrieb: > Hi, > > I would like to suggest a feature for VDR: channel categories > > The idea (if it's not obvious from the name), given many of us deal with a > lot of channels, it would be nice if we can put them into categories and > have VDR, VDR's EPG and EPG viewers understand it. > > So if our basic channels.conf lists the channels, perhaps a > channel_category.conf breaks those down into user defined categories (i.e. > "Local Channels", "Sports", "Favorites", etc). > > It seems most other TV viewing programs (DVB, analog, whatever) supports > this capability and I find it most useful, especially the "Favorites" as I > normally I like to watch a subset of channels I can get. > > Having a seperate file to maintain categories seems like it wouldn't break > existing EPG and/or VDR code. Maybe VDR could provide an option to flip > between "raw" channels.conf and "categorized" channels. > > I know there are other features planned and bugs to fix...maybe this can > be added to the planned features list. > > Regards, > CR. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
