On Tuesday 07 Oct 2008, Malcolm Caldwell wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > 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? > > It might not make sense in your environment. > > In the UK and here in Australia there are fixed, advertised channel > numbers. > > It makes sense if something is advertised as being on channel 20, then > pressing '2' and then '0' should tune to that channel. "Makes sense" > means that "I can describe it to my wife". Exactly. However, I do see Klaus's point too, and I always had visions of it never being in core vdr! If I had hundreds of satellite channels carefully organised, I'd be a tad hacked off if something "helpfully" renumbered them for me!! This is the sort of feature which would be ideal as a plugin, i.e. only those who are interested need to compile and use it. As to whether it is possible to obtain the relevant LCN info from the DVB stream is possible from a plugin or not (I'd have thought a patch would be needed for this but haven't looked yet), or whether it is possible to renumber channels from a plugin. I think I gave up before when I didn't see an easy cChannel.Renumber() function or similar but I could be misremembering. > > 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. > > Maybe I should try to explain this to my wife instead? ;-) As I say, I tend to check the numbering every now and then and reorder channels.conf by hand inserting lots of :@nnn place holders. Cheers, Laz _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
