On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote: > On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote: >> Laz schrieb: >>> On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: >>> On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels >>> renumbered to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment, I have >>> to go through and move them about by hand every time something >>> changes! I don't think there is currently any support for assigning >>> channels a specific number within vdr (probably not much point with >>> gazillions of satellite channels but more useful with the handful of >>> terrestrial Freeview ones in the UK). >> man 5 vdr: >> A group delimiter can also be used to just set the next channel’s >> number, without an explicit delimiter text, as in >> >> :@201 > > That's what I mean by "doing it by hand"! My channels.conf is littered > with those! > > ;) > > Would be nice if each channel entry had a field for channel number > instead, especially when they helpfully decide to move a channel! > > It's also the way "real" set-top boxes do it. I think "scan" can output > the channel numbers to a vdr-readable channels.conf but I think that just > puts in a :@1, :@2, :@3, etc. every other line. Just doesn't seem neat to > me, especially as the channel numbers are broadcast. > > I did start looking at this a while back but never got very far: might > have another go... I don't think it makes any sense to put actual channel numbers into each channel's line in channels.conf. For one, what if different providers want to use the same channel numbers? And: what if channels are moved around, inserted or deleted? The channel numbers are implicitly derived from the position of each channel in the channels.conf file. Offsets can be suggested with :@nnn lines, but are only hints and may be ignored if there are too many channels before them to actually implement the desired numbers. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
