[vdr] Re: why doesnt vdr name an instant recording with the information from the epg data?

[Ansgar Jonietz <ansgar@jonietz.de>]

Matthias Weingart schrieb:
> You are right. You do not need VPS to implement showview. But
> a clean implementation of Showview is using the VPS (if available) and
> start the recording if Showview and VPS data are identical.

But that should be the normal way, differences are an exception!

>  For "our vdr" I think it is easy to decode the showview data and create a
> timer entry from it. The channel is a number from 1..128(?) in 4 tables
> which should map to the right channel in the channels.conf (the coding is
> the same as wirh VPS). And the start and stop times are easy to decode.
> (unnoted the legal issue)
> 
> The advantage is - you do not need to search "scroll" to your channel.
>  Entering 12356
> 
> is much easier as programming a timer:
> 
>  scroll to the right channel
>  jump to starttime, insert startime 1215
>  jump to endtime, insert endtime 1315
> 
>         Matthias

Absolute agreement!