On Monday 18 Jun 2007, Alex Stansfield wrote: > I've been finding my way around the vdr source code as the idea of > support for this series link has me interested in seeing if it's > something I might be able to do or help with. > > I guess we'd need to store the series link information in the epg.data > file. The question is where? I figured the two options were to put it on > the end of the event line (the one that starts with E and hold the event > ID, start time, duration, etc) or to create a new line specifically for > it. > > Also I was wondering about the amount of support to be put into vdr. To > have vdr support series recording would, imo, be quite a bit of work > when there are plugins that cover that sort of thing. So I was thinking > that it might be best to start with just adding support for finding the > series link, storing it in the epg and adding the property to the Event > class. > > I haven't figured out how plugins interact with vdr to grab Event > information but it would need to be able to pass the Series Link ID to a > plugin if it asks for it. An example would be epgsearch, when I select > an event in the EPG and hit '4' it creates a search from the event. It > would be nice if when i do that it checks to see if the Event has a > series link and if it does offers to create a search based on the Series > Link. > > Anyway that was just a few thoughts I had. If i'm going off on the wrong > track please let me know, I've never done any work on VDR itself before. One issue is whether this is a global standard (in which case perhaps vdr ought to support it) or a UK-only scheme (where a plug-in might be more appropriate). Do other countries / broadcast systems implement "Freeview Playback" aka "TV-Anytime" (ETSI TS 102 323)? -- Dave _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
