[vdr] Re: autopid in 1.3.0 swapping Apids

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

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Carsten Koch wrote:
> > André Weidemann wrote:
> >
> >> I tested the 1.3.0 yesterday and found out that the autopid feature is
> >> swapping the Apids when updating a channel.
> >>
> >> I have a channel in my List that broadcasts French and English. French
> >> is on Apid 84 and English on 85. Since I don't speek French I set
> >> APID1 to 85 and APID2 to 84.
> >> Everytime I switch to this channel the autopid is swapping the APID1
> >> and APID2.
> >> Is it possible only to only check whether the correct values are
> >> already entered regarding of their order and only alter the entries if
> >> they have changed?
> >
> >
> > It would be even nicer to not have useless languages at all.
> >
> > In the above case, I would configure APID 85 only.
> > Why waste disk space with an audio channel that I cannot understand
> > when an audio channel that I can understand is available?
> >
> > Of course, this should never lead to no audio at all. ;-)
> > In a music or porn channel even a language that one does
> > not speak may be useful.
> >
> > What I am trying to say is: There should be a setup parameter
> > that lists my native (preferred) language and all other languages
> > that I understand/accept.
> > VDR should
> >
> > *  give the preferred language priority (select it as default)
> >
> > *  record only the preferred language and all other accepted
> >    languages if more than these are available
> 
> I guess that's basically the same idea (user-friendly APIDs)
> that I described 2 years ago:
> 
> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 16:06:10
> From: Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
> To: Video Disk Recorder Mailing List <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Subject: [vdr] User-Friendly Audio Packet Identifications.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while we are looking at channels.conf format and contents,
> here is another idea:
> 
> Why do I have to enter the APIDs for the various languages
> and for AC3 manually? That's not user-friendly.
> When I want to select a language, I want to select between
> the available languages, not between 4096 numbers, most of
> which do not yield any language at all.
> Also, I want a language that I can understand
> to be the default language.
> ...

I'm currently working on integrating Teemu Rantanen's "EPG preferred
language" patch, and while doing so will prepare for preferred audio
languages as well.

Please be patient...

Klaus


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