[vdr] Re: unique channel id

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:24:58 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>> 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.

Maybe we can implement an alias mechanism that tells vdr to use either
of some channels for recording depending on free devices.



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