[vdr] Re: What about a channel logical number ?

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

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Cyrille Grange wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > All my greatings for all the work. I'm using vdr with AIO 30.4 and it's
> > works really great.
> >
> > I was thinking about an other columns in the channels.conf file to
> > attribute a logical number for each channels.
> > This logical channel number should match with those of the TV's channels
> > books.
> >
> > What do you think about ?
> >
> 
> This would be great. especially if you change channels.conf, the
> existing timers record on the wrong channel. A unique number for each
> channel would solve that problem!

Sit back for a moment and think: a unique number for each channel would
have to be managed by some centralized organization. New channels would
have to be assigned new unique numbers, and in case a channel "disappears",
that number can't be re-used (at least for some time).

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to have such unique numbers. But somebody
would have to manage them. And you would have to convince all sources of
channel listings to use these unique channel ids, otherwise I guess they
wouldn't make too much sense...

Klaus
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