[vdr] Re: Merging AutoPID-patch into VDR before 1.2.0 (was: Re: Re: pcr<> vpid)

["Ray Glendenning" <ray.glendenning@hackery.demon.co.uk>]

Hi

Where do UK set top boxes get the channels number from as in 'BBC 1' should
be at channel number '1' and 'ITV1 ' should be at channel '3'?  This sounds
like exactly what you are talking about and it would be nice if any solution
picked up the same info.

Cheers
Ray

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Merging AutoPID-patch into VDR before 1.2.0 (was: Re: Re:
pcr<> vpid)


> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >
> > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> >
> >  >>There was a great deal of activity on the list regarding the handling
of
> >  >>PCR<>VPID but nothing seems to have come out of that yet.  Is this
> >  >>something that has to wait for 1.2.0 or later?  Or is there a patch
on
> >  >>the horizon.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > This will be one of the next things I add to VDR, _before_ version
1.2.0.
> >
> > What about adding Andreas Schultz's AutoPID-patch?
>
> I'm currently working towards a _stable_ version 1.2.0, and there's no
> way I'm going to do anything in that area before 1.2.0 - that would only
> unnecessary delay this long overdue version. The only change I will still
> make before 1.2.0 here is setting the PCR-PID.
>
> > Of course, it will need some debugging, but I think it will be the best
> > solution to merge it in before 1.2.0.
>
> I don't think so. I'm sure Andreas will provide a patch based on the
stable
> 1.2.0, so if you absolutely must have this you can always patch the
official VDR
> version.
>
> > This will also solve the problems with channels.conf. It's a mess to get
> > a channels.conf with all channels for TV and Radio for the satelites
> > personally used. Especially as channel information often are
dynamically.
> >
> > Currently additional channel-scanners are necessary for that. But that's
> > no option for dummy-users only having OSD and no idea of linux.
> >
> > With the AutoPID-patch you wouldn't need to ship a channels.conf but
> > only a transponders.conf with VDR and VDR would update channels.conf
> > automatically.
>
> This will be done later, after 1.2.0, because for the basic operation
> you don't need that kind of stuff. Once you have a channels.conf VDR
> works just fine (except for some channels that change their PIDs every now
> and then, but the majority of channels is pretty "stable").
>
> > The problem would be the line-based sorting of channels.conf (which I'm
> > praying to skip for a year, now). This could be solved by an additional
> > field "channel-number" which stores the unique number of the channel
> > beginning with "1". A new channel simply would get the next free number.
> >
> > This way the user would have a static number for each channel. And when
> > the user rearranges sorting of channels, the channel-number in
> > channel-number field would be changed instead of the line.
>
> That's what the "unique channel id" is for. This concept will be further
> improved after 1.2.0. There will also be user defined "favorites" lists,
> in which users can have their own channel numbering.
>
> Klaus
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