On 15.06.2012 17:17, Ludi wrote:
Hello, Some time ago, I started a discussion in german on the VDR forum about making the VDR more friendly for users that are simultaneously using different sources to receive channels: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board8-vdr-grundlagen/110156-%C3%BCberlegungen-zur-channels-conf-f%C3%BCr-dvb-c-s-t-mischbetrieb/index3.html I am going to explain the problem, when receiving channels from two different sources by using the second german public channel named ZDF: Suppose a user is receiving the channel ZDF by dvb-s and dvb-t. For the VDR, these are two different channels, and it probably is not a bad thing that the VDR differentiates between them because these channels might be of different quality (different data rates, etc.). However, as both sources name these channels often the same way, it is not easily possible to differentiate between the two channels in the VDR OSD, which is particularly annoying for the timers, one of the main VDR features. Currently, I work around this problem, by setting the VDR to not update channelnames and manually adding a suffix to the channelnames in the channels.conf. So, to use the example above and differentiate between the two channels, they could be renamed to ZDF-s and ZDF-t (or ZDF.s and ZDF.t, or...). In practice, I only only rename the channelnames of the source with the smallest number of channels; I know that the channelnames without suffix are those from the other source. @ Klaus Do you think that you could add an additional option to one of your next VDR releases, like "Add suffix about source to channelnames"; I could imagine such an option next to the "Update channels" option in the DVB section of the Setup in the OSD of the VDR. Since the information is already in the channels.conf for every channel, I assume, that it will not require huge changes to the VDR code to use channelnames-source (or something similar) instead of only the channelname in the channelname field of the channels.conf, when the corresponding option is active.
I'd rather have the channels.conf entries keep the names that are broadcast in the SI data. I wouldn't want to add a "source" suffix there. However, I could imagine adding a function like cString cChannel::NameWithSource(void) which would return things like ZDF (DVB-T) ZDF (DVB-S) or, shorter, ZDF (T) ZDF (S) and using that function instead of the Name() function at the appropriate places.
In case, I am missing something, I would also like to ask everybody reading this to let us know, if for any reason, the idea about replacing the channelnames with channelname-source cannot work.
Well, it could work all right. But as I said, I'd like to keep that raw data in the channels.conf entries. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
