[vdr] what is supposed to be going on with EPG in vdr-1.2.5

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

Hello,

I have made me a channels.conf which looks normal but has the following 
three fields added which are populated with correct infos.

11: original network id

12: original transport id

13: an arbitrary number in case of conflict that is administratively 
controlled and guaranteed to be unique

now I observe the following:

The EPG is transmitted in bulk for an administrative domain consisting of 
several original network ids, but vdr is ignoring all entries for channels 
not in the network id of the transponder holding the EPG, for example

If the guide is on network 1000 on transponder 1, all entries for network 
1000 are accepted, but entries for network 1002 are ignored.  If you tune 
to a channel on network 1002, for a while you have no EPG data for that 
channel, because vdr didn't learn about those guide entries from the other 
network.

What I want is:

If the original network id field and transport service id fields are 
properly filled in, if you have a channel defined in your channels.conf or 
some other means, i.e. vdr knows about this channel, go ahead and load 
data learned about it from another network.  One could allow a 
configuration directive:

allow other networks to be friends

or

define which networks belong to an autonomous system, and permit the 
definition of multiple autonomous systems

NOTE: the loose definition here of an autonomous system is a set of 
networks and transponders that share a common administrative domain.  
Confederation would also do.

It looks like the hooks are in place to keep all the channels straight in 
the backend, but something in vdr is preventing friends from notifying us 
of EPG information.  If this doesn't make sense, please ask questions.

_J


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