[vdr] Re: unique channel id

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

Régis Bossut wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger writes:
> 
> >I'll change the channel ID so that it can (optionally) include an APID, which should
> >solve the problem with the french radio stations.
> >
> Hmmmm, I should have mentioned that together with the radio name, the
> 0xc5 descriptor gives an unique id (the first byte is the radio number,
> remaining bytes up to the first 0x00 is the radio name). May be this id
> should be added, instead of the APID.

I don't want to have strings in the channel ID, since these are subject to
change (one of the ideas of the channel ID is to be able to react on name changes).
So far the only useful additional ID I can see is the APID.

Needless to say that it would have been best if the providers would have adhered
to the commonly used scheme of using unique SIDs for their channels... After
all, the EPG records _will_ be the same for all these channels since they can
only be distinguished by their SIDs - or am I missing something here?

Klaus
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