[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > > yes, scan in the drivers package
> > Does that also write vdr syntax?  From a first look it looks more like
> > it does szap/czap/tzap syntax only ...
>
>  -o vdr
>
> Please complain if it doesn't work for you.
>
> When I wrote szap I started out with a vdr format channels.conf
> as downloadable from http://www.dxandy.de/cgi-bin/dvbchan.pl.
> However, vdr's format changed meanwhile...
>
> tzap and czap were written by Holger.
Since the VDR format was redesigned in these days we needed a quick 
solution for us. Maybe it was not a really clever decision to call them 
channels.conf like the VDR lists - but since they are located in 
seperate directories ~/.tzap/channels.conf and ~/.czap/channels.conf 
this should not cause conflicts.

The tzap and czap syntax directly reflects the struct 
dvb_frontend_parameter members, the enums defined in 
include/linux/dvb/frontend.h are valid entries. The file format was 
designed for easy readablity, thus I choosed plaintext enums instead of 
numbers and single letters. The parser was pretty straightforward to 
implement anyways.

> Anyway, a standard DVB channel list format and a library
> to handle it would be a good thing.
definitely.

Holger



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