[vdr] Re: unique channel id

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

Panu Kekäläinen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:38:46 +0100, "Klaus Schmidinger"
> <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> said:
> >
> > Of course the _user_ will never have to identify channels by their
> > channel ID.
> > The user will always be presented the channel name and/or the channel
> > number
> > as it results from his/her channel setup.
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> There is also one thing I have not seen mentioned about these unique IDs.
> My understanding is that these IDs would help user to keep the recordings
> correct even when the order of the channels in channel list changes.

That is correct.

> ...
> For example I have (had) both cable tuner and terrestrial tuner. Both
> card's could receive all Finnish free channels. Currently I can not tell
> VDR that for example channels 1 and 21 are in fact same channel instead
> of different tuning parameters. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Ideally VDR
> should be able to use either of those sources to record the channel if
> the other card is busy with something else.
> 
> If the ID could be independent of tuning parameters, then this would be
> possible.

Not really, since one part of the ID is the 'source', which is different
for cable and terrestrial.

> ID must be unique only in one's VDR machine. Again, as user, I don't care
> that same ID is used to point to some other channel in the listing which
> is located somewhere else. If I choose to download some channel list from
> net and be sure that "my own" channels have unique ID, I can choose some
> prefix to use with all "my" channels.

It is certainly a lot better if the ID is generally unique.

Klaus
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