[vdr] Re: split up channels.conf

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

> Robert Schneider wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > when reading the "nice features" thread:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make sense to split up channels.conf into two 
> parts. One being
> > the file holding the "static" information like transponder, 
> pids etc. and
> > another file, that can be customized by the user to sort entries and
> > define other things like CAM, Volume, Diseq etc.
> 
> CAM is not a user specific setting, but channel specific.
> DiSEqC will soon be replaced by a "source" parameter (haven't 
> decided on
> the name yet), so it is also channel specific.
> 
> > That would allow that we could all live on one 
> channels.conf and preserve
> > our "private" settings.
> > 
> > DTV had such a concept and I found it very valueable to be 
> able to have a
> > sorted channel list with my preference and to update 
> technical information
> > by just doing a dtv_scan.
> 
> The problem is that you need a way of telling which user 
> channel is which
> channels.conf channel. In order to do so you'll probably need 
> to repeat
> many of the parameters stored in channels.conf. To safely 
> identify a channel
> I guess you'll need the "source" (sat position, cable, 
> terrestrial), the transponder
> frequency and the service id (assuming service ids are unique 
> within one transponder).
> And in order to store separate volume levels for each APID 
> you'll even have to
> repeat the APIDs in your user channel setup. I'm afraid this 
> would in the end
> make things unnecessarily complicated.
> 
> I've yet to see a good concept for a "user channel settings" 
> list that doesn't
> duplicate most of the information in channels.conf.

A channel's supposed to be uniquely identified with [source|NetworkID|ServiceID]

e.g. ZDF        [13E|318|8011]
or   Premiere 1 [19.2E|133|10]

everything else is fixed than 
	ZDF (11054:H:27500:5/6:570:571)
	P 1 (11798:H:27500:3/4:511:512,513;515)

I was searching the internet yesterday for a descend channels.conf for astra, since the default one misses appx. 5 channels of the 56 german astra FTA channels :-(

I am a strong supporter for splitting it up, because we would finally be able to distribute one unique channel list for all users (incl. cable and terrestrial) and everybody just makes up his own channels.conf by referring to this list.

CU,
Christian.



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