[vdr] Re: Quest.: 1.3.x dev: possibilities to disable epg for certain channels

["Jörg Knitter" <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>]

I wrote:

> Klaus S. wrote:
> 
> > Uwe Heinrich wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > @Klaus: Is there /will there be a possibility to get new channels and
> > > transponders _and_ to disable the changes, epg, whatever on channels
> > that
> > > habe a minor / no priority for me?
> > > 
> > There will soon be a new feature that allows users to define their own
> > list of favourite channels, which will contain only those channels (or,
> > to be precise, references to them) that they want to use. Most likely
> > I'll also make it so that actual EPG data will only be stored for
> channels
> > that are referenced in any favourite channels.list.
> 
> Will it be possible to disable EPG scan for certain channels like it will
> be
> for AutoPID scanning? I just think of the scripts from www.vdrportal.de
> that
> download EPG informations from online services and put it into the VDR´s
> EPG. If I remember correctly, those tools turn the VDR-EPG completely off.
> 
> So if there is a channel missing the online program guide it might be
> useful
> if you could turn the VDR-EPG on for this specific channel - or visa
> versa.

Forgot to say that I would prefer a approach independent of the favourite
list as even in a 'favourite' list, there could be a mixture of channels that
need or don´t need a online EPG update (e.g. ARD: ok, ZDF: currently not okay,
Tele 5: never seen any EPG :-))

Jörg



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