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

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

"Jörg Knitter" wrote:
> 
> 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 :-))

If additional EPG data is sent to VDR via SVDRP, and that data has a table ID
of 0, then this data will overwrite any existing data, and it will not be
overwritten by data from the DVB stream.

So I believe there is no need for such a feature - it's already there ;-)

Klaus


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