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

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Carsten Koch wrote:
> Cyrille Grange wrote:
> ...
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I believe that the PNR (AKA service ID) mostly solves that problem.
> At least I use it in epg2timers to match the http://tvtv.de channel
> names with vdr channel numbers. Works good enough.
> The PNR is already part of channels.conf (last field).
> 
> Carsten.
> 

This also could be used for the timers. Instead of the channel-number 
the timer.conf could use the PNR. And we won't have to change 
channel.conf-format.

Rene