Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63

[Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Martin Hammerschmid wrote:
> >
> > Plamen Ganev wrote:
> > >
> > > Martin,
> > >
> > > > It might be useful to add/allow additional information fields about the
> > > > channel
> > > > in channels.conf ( :radio/tv:language:genre:encrypted/free_to_air  for
> > > > example)
> > >
> > > Version 0.63 of VDR has a new feature that allows you to group channels in
> > > logical groups (bouquet, genre, language, whatever) and then allows you to
> > > quickly jump between channel groups. Perhaps this is enough for most cases.
> > >
> > > Plamen.
> >
> > This new feature is great! The idea of additional information
> > came into my mind while I was fiddling with it :)
> > I extracted information from channel lists,
> > kept information like radio/tv,language ... sorted it
> > they way I thought it was useful at the moment
> > and created a channels.conf from this data.
> > the "problem" (not a real problem  actually but a bit unpleasant :))
> > is that I always have to keep a 2nd data source when I want to sort
> > again.
> > allowing some dummy fields in channels.conf would be helpful.
> 
> How about a general purpose "comment" field?
> This could always be the last one, and it could be optionally empty.
> Users could store in that field whatever they want (except newline
> characters and ':'), but other than that the field would not
> appear anywhere in VDR. It would just be read in and written out
> if the actual channel settings are changed within VDR.
> 
> Greetings
> Klaus

such a "comment" field would be absolutely sufficient.
it's nothing really important, just a suggestion...
I'm really happy with the current version of vdr :)

Martin

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