Re: AW: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63

[MK <amk@befree.ch>]

I agree also that mysql (for example) would allow for more universal 
interfaces and easy extension.
(I'm thinking of web-based  frontends etc...)
sql isn't that heavy, and IS really easy to deal with.

Max

At 16:38 13.09.00 +0200, you wrote:
>Nice Feature, but why shouldn´t we take a real Database like "mysql", that
>could also be used by applications like gVideo. That wouls also give us the
>possibility to construct a kind of centralized update (think of cddb)..
>
>Harry
>
>
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>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. September 2000 14:31
>An: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
>Betreff: Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63
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>
>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.
>
>btw. a language filter possibly could be a neat feature for vdr :)
>
>Martin
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