[vdr] Merging AutoPID-patch into VDR before 1.2.0 (was: Re: Re: pcr<> vpid)

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:

>>There was a great deal of activity on the list regarding the handling of
>>PCR<>VPID but nothing seems to have come out of that yet.  Is this
>>something that has to wait for 1.2.0 or later?  Or is there a patch on
>>the horizon.
>
>
> This will be one of the next things I add to VDR, _before_ version 1.2.0.

What about adding Andreas Schultz's AutoPID-patch?

Of course, it will need some debugging, but I think it will be the best 
solution to merge it in before 1.2.0.

This will also solve the problems with channels.conf. It's a mess to get 
a channels.conf with all channels for TV and Radio for the satelites 
personally used. Especially as channel information often are dynamically.

Currently additional channel-scanners are necessary for that. But that's 
no option for dummy-users only having OSD and no idea of linux.

With the AutoPID-patch you wouldn't need to ship a channels.conf but 
only a transponders.conf with VDR and VDR would update channels.conf 
automatically.

The problem would be the line-based sorting of channels.conf (which I'm 
praying to skip for a year, now). This could be solved by an additional 
field "channel-number" which stores the unique number of the channel 
beginning with "1". A new channel simply would get the next free number.

This way the user would have a static number for each channel. And when 
the user rearranges sorting of channels, the channel-number in 
channel-number field would be changed instead of the line.

Rene



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