[vdr] Re: unique channel id

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

Steffen Koch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>  > But who guarantees that no two channels will have the same name? I
>  > guess it could easily happen that (even on the same SRC, i.e.
>  > satellite, for instance) there are two channels on the same or
>  > different transponders that have the exact same name. There's nothing
>  > that would prevent that from happening.
>  >
>  > Of course the _user_ will never have to identify channels by their
>  > channel ID. The user will always be presented the channel name and/or
>  > the channel number as it results from his/her channel setup.
> 
> So in the end we'll have 2 files concerning the channel setup. One for
> vdr to uniquely identify the channels for the timers and to map
> epg-info. And the other is for the users favorite channels with
> eventually some other name for a specified channel to display instead of
> the broadcast station-name. Did I get this right?

Yes, that's the idea. Of course there can then be any number of such
"favourite channel" files, in case there are different users who all
want to have their own lists.

The default installation, of course, will work directly with channels.conf,
just as it does now. The favourite channel files will be completely optional.

Klaus
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