I believe TV-Anytime is a European standard.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave P</b> <<a href="mailto:vdr@pickles.me.uk">vdr@pickles.me.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 18 Jun 2007, Alex Stansfield wrote:<br>> I've been finding my way around the vdr source code as the idea of<br>> support for this series link has me interested in seeing if it's<br>> something I might be able to do or help with.
<br>><br>> I guess we'd need to store the series link information in the epg.data<br>> file. The question is where? I figured the two options were to put it on<br>> the end of the event line (the one that starts with E and hold the event
<br>> ID, start time, duration, etc) or to create a new line specifically for<br>> it.<br>><br>> Also I was wondering about the amount of support to be put into vdr. To<br>> have vdr support series recording would, imo, be quite a bit of work
<br>> when there are plugins that cover that sort of thing. So I was thinking<br>> that it might be best to start with just adding support for finding the<br>> series link, storing it in the epg and adding the property to the Event
<br>> class.<br>><br>> I haven't figured out how plugins interact with vdr to grab Event<br>> information but it would need to be able to pass the Series Link ID to a<br>> plugin if it asks for it. An example would be epgsearch, when I select
<br>> an event in the EPG and hit '4' it creates a search from the event. It<br>> would be nice if when i do that it checks to see if the Event has a<br>> series link and if it does offers to create a search based on the Series
<br>> Link.<br>><br>> Anyway that was just a few thoughts I had. If i'm going off on the wrong<br>> track please let me know, I've never done any work on VDR itself before.<br><br>One issue is whether this is a global standard (in which case perhaps vdr
<br>ought to support it) or a UK-only scheme (where a plug-in might be more<br>appropriate).<br><br>Do other countries / broadcast systems implement "Freeview Playback"<br>aka "TV-Anytime" (ETSI TS 102 323)?
<br>--<br>Dave<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>vdr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:vdr@linuxtv.org">vdr@linuxtv.org</a><br><a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr">http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
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