[vdr] Re: unique channel id

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Régis Bossut wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger writes:
> 
> >
> >I don't want to have strings in the channel ID, since these are subject to
> >change (one of the ideas of the channel ID is to be able to react on name changes).
> >So far the only useful additional ID I can see is the APID.
> >
> The radio id _is_  an ID, not a string (an id of 0 means unassigned
> APID). It also has a descriptor tag (also 1 byte). See the PMT dump
> excerpt below.

Well, in that case we could set up the channel ID as

  SRC-NID-TID-SID-RID

where RID is the Radio ID and is 0 or even left out for video channels.
That would get us back to having  an ID that consists only of data that
is _not_ used for the actual tuning process.

What about that?

Klaus
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