2010/1/6 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: > On 06.01.2010 13:05, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >> 2010/1/6 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: >>> On 05.01.2010 09:40, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >>>> 2010/1/4 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: >>>>> On 04.01.2010 16:09, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >>>>>> 2010/1/4 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: >>>>>>> On 04.01.2010 14:37, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >>>>>>>> I was in search for a plug-in that could map alternative long names to >>>>>>>> the supposedly current long name of a channel. I guess I didn't search >>>>>>>> hard and long enough, but could not find one that would implement this >>>>>>>> behaviour. The idea is, that when ever a channel list is called, it >>>>>>>> will provide the alternative long name, but saves the original long >>>>>>>> name in channels.conf. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So I thought of implementing one my self. After reading the >>>>>>>> PLUGINS.html from VDR-1.7.10, I thought it would be possible. I didn't >>>>>>>> see any spoon feeding when it came to channels in the documentation, >>>>>>>> so I thought I will have a look at channels.h and there seems to be a >>>>>>>> member function called Name() in the tChannelID class. Would it be >>>>>>>> wise then to copy the tChannelID class and replace the member function >>>>>>>> Name()? >>>>>>> tChannelID has no member function named Name(). >>>>>>> Maybe you mean the cChannel class? >>>>>>> I guess if you change the implementation of cChannel::Name(), then you >>>>>>> could do what you want. >>>>>> Thanks for that. I must have scrolled back up and saw the wrong class, >>>>>> I meant cChannel:Name(). >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Which global pointer will I have to deleted and assign to the new object? >>>>>>> I don't understand this question. >>>>>>> There is no "new object". >>>>>>> You will have to patch the VDR source to implement this. >>>>>> The idea is that the plug-in would delete the current instance of >>>>>> cChannel and instantiate a new cChannel instance in the place there >>>>>> of. This without having to patch vdr to implement this feature. There >>>>>> for the question about the (e.g. global) pointer that is pointing to >>>>>> the original instance of cChannel. Is there a member function in the >>>>>> plug-in class that can be called from VDR's main and hand over such a >>>>>> pointer? >>>>> There is an object of cChannel for each channel, and they are stored in >>>>> a list. You can either patch VDR to modify cChannel::Name() so that it >>>>> takes the original name as an index into some database of yours, or >>>>> modify the names in your channels.conf and set "Setup/DVB/Update channels" >>>>> to "PIDs only". >>>>> >>>>> Just curious: what's wrong with the original names? >>>> The long names and the short names are the same. >>> And what's wrong with that? >> >> If you have a lot of channels, where the Long names are reduced to >> short (acronym) names. Then you might run into the problem where you >> see a few channels with the same short name but with different IDs. I >> can't always remember what the short name used to stand for after I >> visit the channel in 6 months. The STB will show the correct long >> name. > > Where does the STB get that long name from? I only guess that it will get that information in the same form as the EPG works. The EPG can only be accessed by going to a specific channel and view it using the STB's propriety hardware. > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > 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
