<div dir="ltr">I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. Having vdr handle this form of channel numbering internally would seem to be the better option but a plugin would be the next best option.<div>
<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Malcolm Caldwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malcolm.caldwell@cdu.edu.au">malcolm.caldwell@cdu.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:<br>
> On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote:<br>
> > On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote:<br>
> >> Laz schrieb:<br>
> >>> On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote:<br>
> >>>> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote:<br>
> >>> On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels<br>
> >>> renumbered to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment, I have<br>
> >>> to go through and move them about by hand every time something<br>
> >>> changes! I don't think there is currently any support for assigning<br>
> >>> channels a specific number within vdr (probably not much point with<br>
> >>> gazillions of satellite channels but more useful with the handful of<br>
> >>> terrestrial Freeview ones in the UK).<br>
> >> man 5 vdr:<br>
> >> A group delimiter can also be used to just set the next channel's<br>
> >> number, without an explicit delimiter text, as in<br>
> >><br>
> >> :@201<br>
> ><br>
> > That's what I mean by "doing it by hand"! My channels.conf is littered<br>
> > with those!<br>
> ><br>
> > ;)<br>
> ><br>
> > Would be nice if each channel entry had a field for channel number<br>
> > instead, especially when they helpfully decide to move a channel!<br>
> ><br>
> > It's also the way "real" set-top boxes do it. I think "scan" can output<br>
> > the channel numbers to a vdr-readable channels.conf but I think that just<br>
> > puts in a :@1, :@2, :@3, etc. every other line. Just doesn't seem neat to<br>
> > me, especially as the channel numbers are broadcast.<br>
> ><br>
> > I did start looking at this a while back but never got very far: might<br>
> > have another go...<br>
><br>
> I don't think it makes any sense to put actual channel numbers into<br>
> each channel's line in channels.conf. For one, what if different<br>
> providers want to use the same channel numbers? And: what if channels<br>
> are moved around, inserted or deleted?<br>
<br>
</div></div>It might not make sense in your environment.<br>
<br>
In the UK and here in Australia there are fixed, advertised channel<br>
numbers.<br>
<br>
It makes sense if something is advertised as being on channel 20, then<br>
pressing '2' and then '0' should tune to that channel. "Makes sense"<br>
means that "I can describe it to my wife".<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> The channel numbers are implicitly derived from the position of each<br>
> channel in the channels.conf file. Offsets can be suggested with :@nnn<br>
> lines, but are only hints and may be ignored if there are too many<br>
> channels before them to actually implement the desired numbers.<br>
<br>
</div>Maybe I should try to explain this to my wife instead?<br>
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> Klaus<br>
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