[vdr] Re: AutoPID Howto / Changelog

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@warp10.net>]

On Friday 25 April 2003 20:16, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2003 18:59, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not good in writing howto's or Dokus. You can read the change history
> > in the bk tree at http://vdr.bkbits.net:8080/vdr-pid
>
> I see you renamed the 'swap' stuff ;) Thanks...
>
> I love the automatic concept of your plugin - hey, I'm lazy... However, I
> still really don't know how to use it..  maybe instead of writing a whole
> HOWTO, could you answer a few questions?
>
> > the patch extracts and updates all pids (video, audio, ac3, teletext) and
> > the channel name from the SDT, so the only required fields are the (see
> > vdr.5) frequency, parameters, source, srate, ca, sid, nid, tid.
>
> OK, my current terrestrial channels.conf contains about 30 lines like this:

terrestrical doesn't work yet.

> TMF (TV):626000:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:201:202:0:0:25728:0:0:0
> BBC NEWS 24 (TV):754167:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:640:641:0:0:4415:0:0:0
>
> I'm not near a VDR machine now to try this,  so that's really why I'm
> asking..
>
> What  is the minimum I could get away with? From your description, it would
> seem:
>
> null:626000:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:25728:0:0:0
> null:754167:I0C34D12M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:4415:0:0:0
 
you are missing the nid and tid, but it might work as a stating point for the 
scanner.

> With the only 'channel-specific' thing there being the SID - is this right?
> If so, how does this really make the channels.conf much easier, since we
> still need to manually extract the SIDs :)

thats what the scanner plugin is for, and you also need the nid and tid!

> Or am I misunderstanding, and does the plugin lock onto one 'transponder'
> and get a list of all channels on that transponder, and of all other
> transponders, then cycle through each of them?

that is the plan and it also partly work that way

> Or...  must I have at least one channel per transponder pre-defined in
> channels.conf?

at the moment: YES

> > The
> > original channels.conf does not contain the nid and tid for all channels.
> > These two fields are absolutly required for the director mode.
>
> What's 'director mode' ?

I guess it's normaly called a 'Portal', a channel where you are beeing shown 
whats on other channels (linked services) and can select them from there.

> Cheers and thanks for your hard work :)
> Gavin,

Andreas


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