So if provider 1 broadcasts a 2.1 channel and provider 2 also broadcasts a 2.1 channel and you as a vdr user can have more than 1 provider. What will the channel numbering scheme be for Provider 2? Will this introduce a bouqet in vdr? On 3/7/08, jhall@xxxxxxxx <jhall@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:57:50PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > On 03/07/08 16:31, VDR User wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Klaus Schmidinger > > > <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On 03/06/08 21:13, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > > >> > Well, ".", "#", "*", something in the channels.conf. "0" is not a > valid > > >> > notation because 0 is part of the number system. 40 won't work for > KVOA > > >> > because 40 is KHRR. And when displayed it should be "." > > >> > > >> Well, 40 would become 400, accordingly. > > >> > > >> Just add a 0 to each channel number (or two zeros, if you have two > digit > > >> sub channel numbers). > > > > > > Klaus, come on, you know bastardizing the channel numbers like that is > > > a horrible idea! ;) > > > > "Bastardizing" channel numbers the way those "sub channels" do, that's > > a horrible idea! > > > > Channel numbers are *numbers*, *integer* numbers! > > There's a first channel, and a second one, and a third one, > > and they are numbered 1, 2 and 3. Now what's a "2.1" channel? > > Is that "ten percent more than the second channel"? > > > > VDR stores channel numbers as integers. So if you want to > > have a numbering scheme where you have channels "between" other > > channels, you need to make room for these additional entries. > > And the only way I see to do this is to shift all numbers one > > digit to the left. > > > > Klaus > > > I'm sorry if you don't see it the way the rest of us do, but the goal > here should be the user experience. The channels are advertised from > the channel makers as 2-1, 2-2, or 2.1, 2.2, or 2*1, 2*2 or whatever. > When users go to a channel, they are not thinking: > > hmm what channel "number" shal I go to > > no they know > > if I want to watch WJLA, I go to 7*1 for the HD version, or 7*2 for > the SD version. They know this because that is how it is advertised > to them in their markets. They have accepted that channels are not > just integers. > > The other issue you have is that channels in their system have > well-known identifiers that are called "channels" for example NASATV > is called channel 213. This is something we have talked about in the > past both on and off-list. If you want to somehow map these > subchannels to some wierd integer that's say greater than a million, > that's fine, your channel numbers are integers, but the user needs to > be able to select the channel he wants. Is the goal here that the > user is able to use the program or that channels can continue to > antiquatedly be identified as ints? > > _J > > > _______________________________________________ > > vdr mailing list > > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
