[vdr] Re: split up channels.conf

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

From my point of view we are going too much into detail with the discussion
at the moment.
My basic wish is to have a format, that enables us to publish a channel list
that does not need to modified by anyone.
Plus a channels.conf that refers to the static channel list in order to set
up his/her local VDR.

Of course, it's advisable to introduce an artificial (numeric) key to the
static channel list (like a global program number) because keys that are
constructed of meaningful information always posses the danger of future
incompatabilities.
Just look at the example of the german social security number system which
barely survived when germany reunited.

CU,
Christian.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier JACQUES [mailto:jacquesolivier@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: split up channels.conf
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I think that the issue here is that we can always imagine a 
> new feature that 
> needs another field in the channels.conf. Splitting the 
> channels.conf has 
> the advantage of keeping backward compatibility (with the few 
> "scanners" or 
> "channels.conf generators") + allow addition of features 
> (which, I hope, 
> will grow fast with the plugins).
> As an example, I was thinking of associating a channel logo 
> to each of the 
> channel and being able to choose (zap) from logos and no 
> channel names. 
> Well, I guess you can imagine whatever you want.
> IMHO, the 'split' is a good idea.
> 
> so long,
> Olivier.
> >I can imagine inserting channel (and APID) specific audio 
> levels into the
> >channels.conf format, so there would be no need for 
> "splitting up" things
> >because of that. So as far as I can see the only thing 
> that's needed would
> >be a way of marking a channel as "favourite". I could 
> imagine an additional
> >field in channels.conf that defines whether a channel is a 
> "favourite"
> >channel or not. If this is a 32 bit integer field, there 
> could even be
> >32 separate favourite channel lists for different users. VDR 
> could also
> >be instructed to show only channels marked as "favourite", 
> which could be 
> >used
> >to prevent children from watching channels they are not 
> supposed to watch 
> >(please,
> >no "censorship" thread again - we had that a while ago).
> >
> >Klaus
> 
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