[vdr] Re: What about a channel logical number ?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

> 
> Sit back for a moment and think: a unique number for each channel would
> have to be managed by some centralized organization. New channels would
> have to be assigned new unique numbers, and in case a channel "disappears",
> that number can't be re-used (at least for some time).
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I'd love to have such unique numbers. But somebody
> would have to manage them. And you would have to convince all sources of
> channel listings to use these unique channel ids, otherwise I guess they
> wouldn't make too much sense...
> 
> Klaus

It mustn't be world-wide numbers, but if VDR internally would assign a 
unique identifier for each channel, there wouldn't be problems between 
channels.conf and timers (I had about 10 timers active on my test-system 
and updated my channels.conf - all recorded on wrong channels :-( ).

Rene