[vdr] Re: unique channel id

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:
> Hello @ll,
> sorry to once more raising this topic, but something went 
> wrong with the way
> 1.1.16 was implemented.
> 
> To recall the intentions:
> 1. There are lots of tv- and radio-stations out there and I am sure
> everybody identifies the stations by name.
> 2. There a a lot of combinations of tuning parameters: VPID, 
> APID, SID and
> sat-transponder(position + frequency + polarization). The 
> later Information
> might even by substituted with some sort of combination of 
> sat-position,
> TID, NID and/or ONID.
> 
> Now, if I want to set up a list of my favorite 
> tv/radio-stations I want to
> refer to them by name, nothing else.
> But vdr only needs the tuning parameters, it doesn't need 
> names to tune.
> 
> < snipped nice explanation why we should have non-data-carrying keys>

I totaly agree with you.
But this would imply we need some central channel registration, in order
to get updates to the channel data, from one source.
Perhaps this could be done through a web interface?!

Cu Ulrich



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