On 05/23/09 12:44, Carsten Koch wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:47 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > ... >> You could also remove all unwanted channels from your list and set >> "DVB/Update channels" to "names and PIDs". Then the EPG scan would >> only switch through the desired transponders. > > I believe there is room for improvement. > > Of course I want *all* channels I can use > and I want new channels, too, if can use them. > > And I do not want to go through my list of channels > manually all the time, find those that I cannot view > and delete them manually. > > I believe VDR could do a much better (more thorough, > less error-prone) job at that than I ever could. > > Here is a list of improvements that would greatly > help maintaining a clean and useful channel list: > > 1) When VDR does its EPG scan, it switches to all > channels anyway. Why not test each channel and > see if it actually delivers data? Actually it only tunes to *transponders*, not individual channels. > If it does, set a new configuration field to 0. > If it does not, increment that field by one. > Lets call this field the "absent" value. > The reason why we do not get any data does not > matter. Maybe the channel is temporarily not > broadcasting. Maybe it has ceased to exist. > Maybe I do not have a cam for it. Maybe I have > a suitable cam, but no subscription. > > 2) When zapping, automatically skip channels that > have an "absent" value of > 5 (maybe that value > should be configurable). > > 3) Do not display channels anywhere that have an > "absent" value of > 5 (maybe that value > should be configurable. If you set it to zero, > all useless channels will show up again). > > 4) A "cleanup" run could remove all channels > that have an absent value that exceeds a > certain number (maybe 50). > > 5) You could define additional criteria that > would increment the "absent" value during > an EPG scan. > For example: > 5a) the channel does not broadcast one of the > audio languages that I have configured as > the set of languages that I can understand. > 5b) the channel broadcasts video, but with less > than 1 Mbit/s. > (That would get rid of all those advertising > channels which only broadcast slide shows). Sounds like a perfect task for a plugin - with tons of config parameters and endless threads about what makes sense and what doesn't ;-) (SCNR). At any rate, it's way too complex for the core VDR code, and goes against the KISS principle. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
