[vdr] Re: split up channels.conf

[DOm <angelus.dei@tiscalinet.it>]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:08:19 +0200
Joachim Brüning <jo1@jo1.de> wrote:

> 
> >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.
> >
> what's about "index-numbers". I mean not the number of the program,
> like "001 = ARD". Is it possible to create a number by program, which
> is stored in the channels.conf and the "personal channel setup".
> Of course this number must be the only one number in the master
> channels.conf I use this "index-numbers"-method in my private written
> video-archive. On every recording my programm search the index-number
> and then look in another file for the description.  My experience is,
> that one (recording)-file must be a chief/master of the other
> (descreption)-file. Every handling in the description-file is starting
> by searching the master-file.
>  
> (Btw. the video-archive was programmed in DOS, not Linux)
> 

Something like a primary-key in a database on whitch vdr can do a"join"
operation on the fly when showing the channel menu'. 

Will it be an heavy and slow approach ???

Thanks for every line of VDR code.
 ( including AIO and plugins, of course)

Angelus.