[vdr] Re: AutoPID Howto / Changelog

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Friday 25 April 2003 18:59, you wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm not good in writing howto's or Dokus. You can read the change history
> in the bk tree at http://vdr.bkbits.net:8080/vdr-pid

I see you renamed the 'swap' stuff ;) Thanks...

I love the automatic concept of your plugin - hey, I'm lazy... However, I 
still really don't know how to use it..  maybe instead of writing a whole 
HOWTO, could you answer a few questions?

> the patch extracts and updates all pids (video, audio, ac3, teletext) and
> the channel name from the SDT, so the only required fields are the (see
> vdr.5) frequency, parameters, source, srate, ca, sid, nid, tid. 

OK, my current terrestrial channels.conf contains about 30 lines like this:

TMF (TV):626000:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:201:202:0:0:25728:0:0:0
BBC NEWS 24 (TV):754167:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:640:641:0:0:4415:0:0:0

I'm not near a VDR machine now to try this,  so that's really why I'm asking..

What  is the minimum I could get away with? From your description, it would 
seem:

null:626000:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:25728:0:0:0
null:754167:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:4415:0:0:0

With the only 'channel-specific' thing there being the SID - is this right? If 
so, how does this really make the channels.conf much easier, since we still 
need to manually extract the SIDs :)

Or am I misunderstanding, and does the plugin lock onto one 'transponder' and 
get a list of all channels on that transponder, and of all other 
transponders, then cycle through each of them?

Or...  must I have at least one channel per transponder pre-defined in 
channels.conf? 

> The
> original channels.conf does not contain the nid and tid for all channels.
> These two fields are absolutly required for the director mode.

What's 'director mode' ?

Cheers and thanks for your hard work :)
Gavin,



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