[vdr] Re: unique channel id

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

Ulrich Petri wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > Ulrich Petri wrote:
> > >
> > > Then i would suggest building a hash key from the
> > NID+PID+SID+APID+...
> > > so we have something that feels more like a "identifier"
> > rather that 5
> > > diffrent fields to look at.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Are you seriously suggesting that?
> > Why should we make it more complicated than necessary?
> >
> 
> Because imho it is very complicated for humans to compare 5 different
> values in order to see if if is the "right" channel (e.g. if you want to
> edit the conf files by hand)

But the advantage of using the IDs in "clear" form is that you can easily
handle, generate and parse them, and when you look at one you can immediately
tell the individual parameters it was made up from. With some hash value like
Hgh/6hgfjh%&44 you would always have to convert it before doing anything useful
with it. Plus the algorithms for en- and decoding the hash values would have to
be implemented by anybody who wants to work with these.

I believe "clear" IDs are better.

Klaus
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